Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had only been at home for about ten days when a friend of mine asked me to join him on a journey to the East Indies . |
| 2 | Then he asked me to kiss him on the lips and we kissed . |
| 3 | I picked up a fallen branch , and as he passed I struck him on the head . |
| 4 | After a short chat he invited me to join him at a ‘ small Chinese gathering ’ in the hall usually used for Tong meetings on River Street West . |
| 5 | She liked flowers , liked even more the thought behind them , but Gaily only remembered when he caught them staring him in the face — or in the feet , as now . |
| 6 | ‘ And it was as a result of these conversations that he invited you to join him on the dahabeeyah ? ’ |
| 7 | During the summer of 1977 she watched him play polo at Smith 's Lawn , Windsor and when , in February 1978 , he invited her to join him on a skiing party in Klosters , Switzerland there was much speculation that she might be the future queen of England . |
| 8 | She had scarcely recovered her composure from that frantic evening before he invited her to join him on the royal yacht Britannia during Cowes Week . |
| 9 | The good lady thought that he was shy , and constantly twitted him to bring him into the talk ; Paul hoped that she would get over it as the days passed , and this proved to be the case . |
| 10 | ‘ It told me to meet him by the Princess Alice in Forest Gate , ’ he recalls . |
| 11 | He dismissed the service and told us to follow him to the back rooms for counselling . |
| 12 | ‘ Mother , I asked you to take him to a cricket match , not to start hacking the poor chap 's rosebushes to pieces . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ My brother paid me to help him in an unofficial capacity . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Hugo Brassard 's asked her to join him in a new agency . |
| 15 | The men motioned me to go away , and after they had looked at Jordi 's papers I saw them escort him to a car . |
| 16 | He again went to see them and persuaded them to accompany him to a meeting at the police station with Mr McLean on August 24 . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought I had him in the second round be he wriggled off the hook . ’ |
| 18 | I cried out in relief and happiness : I thought I recognised him as a former schoolmate , a boy with whom I used to exchange groans about the maths problems whose solutions so frequently eluded us . |
| 19 | She always had half an eye for him ; sometimes I thought she watched him as a tamer does a tiger . |
| 20 | A cashier thought she recognized him as the man who had done it . |
| 21 | Those who knew him describe him as a typical Oxford don , courteous , charming , an unassuming man to whom fame came very late . |
| 22 | Tony looked again at the poster — felt it drawing him to the past — the glamour of showbusiness , with its stage-door Johnnies and exciting , feminine showgirls . |
| 23 | But now she suddenly realised it fitted him like a glove . |
| 24 | ‘ Never , ’ writes Boswell , ‘ did I see him in a better frame ; calm , gentle , wise , holy ’ — with Johnson opining that the essence of the Crucifixion lay in showing to the world that even the Son of God suffered on account of sin , and in doing so , displayed how heinous a thing sin must be . |
| 25 | Oh yeah is that did you tell him about the test ? |
| 26 | ‘ When you netted this young man , unproven , untrained , did you tell him of the risks ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Did you see him outside the hall ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Did you see him after the killing ? ’ |
| 29 | Did you ask him for a drink ? ’ |
| 30 | Why , one wonders , did they fire him in the first place ? |