Example sentences of "i [vb past] him [prep] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked him about his temporary drinking problem . |
| 2 | Dury , however , is a theatrical voice to be taken rather more seriously , as I discovered when I met him in his current lodgings , adjacent to the Swan Theatre . |
| 3 | When Callahan and I visited him at his large house on Sunset Beach , it was like walking around a graveyard : every board was a headstone with memories buried beneath it . |
| 4 | Anthony Honoré , retiring Oxford Regius Professor of Civil Law , had just been canvassed by the appointments secretary when I visited him in his panelled rooms at All Souls . |
| 5 | I — er — I told him about his insulting you . ’ |
| 6 | I thanked him for his cheering thought and walked over to interrupt Barry who was involved with a small group of well-heeled tourists at the far end of the bar . |
| 7 | I loved him for his special attention towards me ; he made me feel important — if only to him . |
| 8 | I complimented him on his artistic prowess as a surgeon ; he smiled . |
| 9 | ‘ I put him in his early fifties , ’ said the Archdeacon judiciously . |