Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ but he was wearing a collar and I 'd tied him to a lamppost . ’
2 Now , I have n't met this gentleman , but I 'm told that he is a great expert on the question of sound and the nature of sound and , and the problems by it , and I 've invited him into the studio and I 'm going to interview him .
3 I 've seen him in Baywatch and I 've seen him in Knightrider .
4 and I 've met him in the pub .
5 This kind of thing has an unsettling effect on a player but fortunately David is a level-headed lad and I 've told him about the latest situation .
6 Deputy 's free and I 've booked him for the launch
7 He got out of the planes coming , we , we was coming over from de Laborgie and you give him the needle and I had to lead him off the lead him off the plane , and going down over the chimneys in Chantilly to landu Laborgie he goes , woo ooh ooh , getting ready you know .
8 Rex and I had annoyed him by belittling the Levellers over lunch and there was no reasoning with him when he got into one of his self-righteous moods , so we left him to it .
9 Oh , and he asked if I 'd ever seen Angy having any kind of disagreement with anyone and I had to tell him about that little contretemps with Mr Willard and young Godfrey Mellish . ’
10 Eric and I had to restrain him at times when he wanted to do something like throw little Paul into the water to see if he 'd float , or like when he wanted to fell a tree over the railway line that goes through Porteneil , but as a rule we got on surprisingly well , even though it rankled to see Eric , who was the same age as Blyth , obviously in fear of him .
11 Five or ten minutes by there , and getting introduced to all the old colliers that were in the same manhole , that we called it : I started down then to follow my father ; and I had to follow him like a little dog , all the way .
12 Erm , I mean , he wrote a lot , I saw him church on Sunday and I did thank him for the letter
13 ‘ John was away a great deal , Laura and I travelled to join him in the constituency when we could and inevitably there was uncertainty and strain in the air . ’
14 Still , I liked him , and I have heard him on television once or twice .
15 ‘ He is my most dangerous opponent and I have beaten him in style , ’ said Davis , whose top breaks were an 85 ( twice ) , 79 , 66 and 65 ( twice ) .
16 Jon is a ‘ New Age Traveller ’ and I have known him for two years .
17 ‘ He 's not suffered any leg problems since then and I wanted to run him at Newcastle but he was a little flat in November .
18 I did n't , it was so cold yesterday , we 'd been out in the morning and I decided to put him in his cot , on the odd occasion I do , do , he 's gone to sleep without any problems
19 You had been swilling food into your guts and making the small talk of camp survival , and you had lost him from your memory …
20 Well I appreciate you deny it because er you said in answer to my friend that erm as I am required by rules to put it , er I do put to you that yes , you did have a shotgun , perhaps erm borrowed from one of the officers , yes you did put it to Mr head and you did tell him to er er shut up and wait for C I D.
21 She 'd taken him from the town and the friends that he knew and she 'd brought him to this great , dusty mausoleum of a place where he did n't even like to run around because the echo of his footsteps sounded too much like someone faceless who was following too close .
22 His generosity had got her out of gaol , and she had misled him about her sailing ability .
23 He had pressed her to marry him , though he was considerably older than she was , and she had accepted him at a time of great emotional exhaustion .
24 She had wanted it preserved and she had chosen him as a means to this end .
25 Since then they 've made LA Story together , and she has encouraged him as an actor rather than a comic .
26 And she 's got him into a very good er nursery school apparently .
27 The water was rising all the time , and we had to seal him inside a waterproof bag and drag him through the sump . ’
28 Rainses had sat next to us at the boat-yard tea-house , and we had asked him about boats to Be-ni Hasan , a group of tombs some fifteen miles upstream .
29 A fire crew from the town 's station were called to the scene and they managed to free him within minutes .
30 Oh , he had told lies and they had trapped him by asking for the names of other English agents in Paris .
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