Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb past] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 and I tried all weekend trying to get only there from five to seven , and I got him after five o'clock on Tuesday
2 And I asked him about that particular morning 's exercise with the coastguard helicopter .
3 Now , I do n't , the story I quoted was I , I interviewed Lord Marshall on the local radio thing many years ago , and I asked him about nuclear fusion .
4 K has literally just rung over the moon that I had fixed this as her mother is very fond of David and has known him for years — and it is fitting that widow of first Prof of CEGS ( as above ) be included — her dad built up the department enormously and I knew him through European seminars etc via Law Society with and others including who is a Heriot Row neighbour .
5 My sister and I put him to good use .
6 Roughly , those over thirty-five , and I put him in that group , reacted with a mixture of impatience , embarrassment , and guilt .
7 I did my best to shepherd the animal out of the room but he did n't seem to know the meaning of obedience and I chased him in vain .
8 You wanted a man , and you wanted him for good — because after all , you were getting on then , were n't you ?
9 She had a little flat in the Falls , a house she shared with girlfriends , her family home being in a village outside Derry , and she told him in blunt terms that she had n't seen enough of him at it for too damn long , at it or anywhere else .
10 Her marriage to John Fenwick ( possibly on 8 May 1781 at St Dunstan , Stepney ) , a radical author and translator , proved disastrous and she left him in 1800 ‘ determined … to consider myself and children totally separated from his bad or good fortunes ’ .
11 His wife 's name was Sarah ; she was five years his junior , and she predeceased him by ten months .
12 He was offering her an out and she respected him for that .
13 Her head turned slightly towards him and she fixed him with that blind , unthinking stare .
14 And she scolded him for frightening children Adam , six , Louise , four , and two-year-old Carl .
15 The truth was there in his eyes , and she hated him for that , too .
16 well he bought the land and we saw him at different times build his bungalow it 's a lovely bungalow now int it ?
17 Julia 's questions about the line the defence lawyers were taking were as acute as anything she had ever asked David , and they filled him with relieved delight .
18 He 'd been talking to these erm Greek blokes and they invited him into this bar for erm
19 I w , but I liked him in that one on a Friday night .
20 ‘ To buy a player of Kevin 's experience would cost a fortune but we got him for free .
21 ‘ There was very little he could do about the horrendous injuries Cooper suffered in his two fights against Ali , but he saved him on countless other occasions with his quick , methodical work . ’
22 But it hurt him in some way to admit that one of his key men came from the wrong end of the Bible , so to speak .
23 James had armed himself with the sword of Robert the Bruce , but it stood him in poor stead .
24 But what attracted him above all else to the magazine illustrators was their subject matter .
25 But what irritated him above all was the jumble of loose ends he would be obliged to leave behind , just at the moment when he was beginning to see how to unravel them .
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