Example sentences of "[vb past] i [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 | ‘ It told me to meet him by the Princess Alice in Forest Gate , ’ he recalls . |
| 6 | ‘ My brother paid me to help him in an unofficial capacity . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I thought I had him in the second round be he wriggled off the hook . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | Had I met him in the grocer 's , I 'd probably have thought him ‘ nice ’ as well . |
| 11 | The constable might not have minded the instant promotion but I doubt if the commissioner would have been too happy had I relegated him to the ranks ! ) |