Example sentences of "him [prep] [art] [noun sg] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jimmy cursed him for a fool and thanked him for standing aside . |
| 2 | Jack , by then very famous , called him for a chat and asked if he needed anything . |
| 3 | Roland took him for a caricature and bristled vestigially with class irritation . |
| 4 | Not the clankings and gratings of the Zoo which lay off in the distance to his right , now obscured by the trees over which he had flown in the night , but the call of a thousand birds whose busyness and life shook his fears off him for a time and replaced them with a sense of wonder . |
| 5 | She looked at him for a moment and burst out laughing . |
| 6 | Martin looked at him for a moment and smiled softly at him as he said , ‘ I would , laddie , but you 'd better not ; I think your mother needs you tonight . |
| 7 | She despised him for an affair that had begun and ended thirty years before . |
| 8 | And he looks a lot better for the change , although I have to tell you that by the time I had grilled him for an hour and tested him out on the snooker table I did notice that he reached for a cigarette . |
| 9 | The postman thanked him for the warning and drove back to Mount Carmel . |
| 10 | Charlotte only wants to marry him for the house and comforts he can provide her later in life . |
| 11 | City of London magistrates fined him for the refusal but ruled he could keep his licence . |
| 12 | The thought of winning a Championship medal also helps him to endure the pain he still suffers , though both Ron Atkinson and Graham Taylor — the latter signed him for Villa — have learned to nurse him through the week and preserve his talents for match-days . |
| 13 | At that moment she caught a glimpse of him through the crowd and came over . |
| 14 | Her existence certainly saved him from making decisions : ‘ I 've got to consult my wife ’ always let him off the hook and annoyed the independent Jane . |
| 15 | BIG Dave Beasant hit back at the Chelsea fans who booed him off the pitch and blasted : ‘ You 're out of order . ’ |
| 16 | The release of his second album , ‘ Hands Free ’ , follows the success of Mona , a hit from his first album which established him as a singer/songwriter but did very little to convince a cynical world that under the suntan there lurked a talented guitarist . |
| 17 | He was not widely known , but many commentators identified him as a conservative and suggested that he was unenthusiastic about market economic reform . |
| 18 | As Dick comes to know Count Jasper he no longer sees him as a villain and realises that this inscrutable man is in his own way working for the same ends as the conspirators . |
| 19 | Were n't you saying in the tent only yesterday : " When Charles has been beaten and stripped of his weapons , I 'll personally tonsure him as a cleric and take him back to Ravenna " ? |
| 20 | Erm I mean I 'm concerned again through his eyesight that i were we to put him as the assistant and put him on a machine , that he might just put his hand somewhere and get his hand bloody trapped or whatever with his eyesight . |
| 21 | The knowledge of his affair still ate away at her , and it was knowing that she could never speak to him about the affair that hurt most . |
| 22 | She knew she should n't speak to a strange man , but as her Brownie Guider was under a tree not many yards away she thought she could tell him about the litter that had caused the Pack to lose the use of Ferngrove Park . |
| 23 | Hilbert leant towards Lewis when he told him about the will and gave him a pat on the knee . |
| 24 | Another potential voter starts to tell him about the car that went through his garden wall . |
| 25 | He told various stories when journalists interviewed him about the book and pryed into his background . |
| 26 | go up to Lee and ask him about the letter that got |
| 27 | I reminded him about the putter and took possession of it in the car park . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm not thirsty either , ’ he rasped , and his breath rattled in his lungs , reminding him of the dream that kept coming back , night after night . |
| 29 | If Bowe wins and opts for a first defence against veteran George Foreman , the WBC have confirmed they will strip him of the title and declare Lennox Lewis champion . |
| 30 | He told him of the goal that has held him through three years in the University of the North — a campus from which student riots have spread through the country . |