Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [prep] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is he — another person , she told herself , I must think of him as another person . |
| 2 | For example , the modern female hostage who falls in love with her captor may not merely be manifesting the well-known defence of ‘ identification with the aggressor ’ ( particularly since it is not so much identification with him as submission to him ) , she may instead be giving way to her phylogenetic id and its demand that a female captured by a male should look to him for sexual satisfaction . |
| 3 | John had claimed it was just possible to go backwards ( as it were ) , but you must talk to him about that . |
| 4 | He is a very complex man ; he thinks deeply about every role and you must talk to him in great detail . |
| 5 | The seller then becomes a trustee for the buyer and must account to him for any dividends he receives and vote in accordance with his instructions ( or appoint him as his proxy ) . |
| 6 | I mean , if he did go off into the wilds of Anatolia , or somewhere remote like that — something might happen to him in some village , where he is n't known . ’ |
| 7 | When the subject of his father cropped up , which was not very often , Phil found that she could speak of him with true affection , keeping alive for the little boy his early memories of a loving father . |
| 8 | Premier John Major could clash with him on five big issues . |
| 9 | All she could see of him from this angle was that he was a very large man , broad as well as tall — so tall that he had to bend his head over his task . |
| 10 | They just chomped , and when they had finished , the podgy leader rose and quietly asked McGurk if there was somewhere they could talk to him in private . |
| 11 | She often used to ask for him after that , and nobody knew why . |
| 12 | A member of the mathematics advisory team was invited by the headteacher to work in the school and while it was not compulsory , it was assumed that every teacher would work with him at some stage . |
| 13 | And best of all the pictures that flew through her mind so happily as she jolted onwards was Michael Swinton 's gratitude and delight , how touched he would be that she had thought of him , how she would seem to him like some sort of Christmas spirit , glittering in a thousand jewels , her arms laden with bounty … |
| 14 | The idea was to sit the listener in the middle of a square array of loudspeakers , so sound would come at him from all corners — despite the fact that most live performances of music take place in front of the listener . |
| 15 | The Chancellor has been waiting for Father Christmas since the spring , and I do not think that Father Christmas will arrive for him before 25 December . |
| 16 | You can buy from him in complete confidence . |
| 17 | One thing I can say of him with total confidence is that I have never met a man less interested in money . |