Example sentences of "[prep] him [prep] my " in BNC.

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1 I had hundreds of pictures and photos of him on my bedroom wall .
2 You did not choose me , I chose you and appointed you to go and bear much fruit , the kind of fruit that endures and the Father will give you whatever you ask of him in my name .
3 I only wish there had been more like him in my life . ’
4 For years , I , too , have been hounded by a strange man and am currently following Bonham Carter 's example by marking out a map excluding him from my life .
5 I felt particularly ridiculous hurrying along behind him in my loin-cloth .
6 ‘ I can cope with him on my own now .
7 I 'll probably end up snogging with him at my party .
8 As I explored more of the inadequacies of my relationship with him through my group , and made friends independently from him , he began to feel more and more threatened by my increasing feminism .
9 I used to work with him in my mother 's shop — he worked there for twenty-five years , until he died a few years ago .
10 ‘ But just for now , ’ she pleaded , ‘ For tonight , let me be with him in my thoughts , Cati dear . ’
11 ‘ I 'll deal with him in my own time .
12 I 've never had a quarrel with him in my life . ’
13 That would be loss enough if I watched him go with only longing for him in my heart but there is instead a bitterness because he is happy to go life there being preferable to here where there is only his tired wife for company .
14 ‘ If anyone declares publicly that he belongs to me , I will do the same for him before my Father in heaven .
15 My father feared my mother as much as I did and wished me to please and agree with her always , for when I did not she would complain to him of my behaviour and I suspected that when this happened his new wife would complain in her turn that he paid too much attention to us and too little to her and her own children .
16 Anyway , whatever I may have thought about his methods of bringing it about , I 'll always be grateful to him for my wife ! ’
17 The truth is , for simplicity 's sake , I sometimes find myself referring to him as my husband !
18 What with that and a few crazy reports to him about my off-duty life-style flying about he decided United and me were going nowhere together .
19 He had tried to explain things to him from my point of view … .
20 Is the Minister aware that I welcome both advances which have been made , but it will be obvious to him from my correspondence with the Department that some bullying still goes on .
21 At the Hodge Holes it was " baggin time " ( a Northern word for lunch break ) and this was very fitting because Bill , who is a pedigree Bitzer ( bits'er this , bits'er that ) , rejoices in the name of Bilbo Baggins , a name given to him by my daughters on the day he was bought from the dogs ' home .
22 Is it not astonishing that the Secretary of State , having made a decision on 15 Para , can not or will not answer the pertinent points put to him by my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow , Hillhead ( Mr. Galloway ) and the hon. Member for Glasgow , Govan ( Mr. Sillars ) ?
23 That is not to say that the Minister has not left questions unanswered , not least the one just put to him by my hon. Friend the Member for Islington , North ( Mr. Corbyn ) .
24 After my mother had obligingly betrayed all my confidences to him in my hearing , he said he would find the man — Michael , that is — and compel him to marry me .
25 I sit next to him in my erm F T
26 Yeah that was so , it was fucking random , I 've never talked to him in my entire life , I ended up , after we all left , talking to him for so long
27 ‘ I suppose you went running to him after my phone call . ’
28 No , I thought , I thought you meant you 'd spoken to him after my date .
29 Surely he deserves better of me than to gaze at him with my policeman 's eyes .
30 I jumped at him with my sword , and a second later he fell dead in the doorway without a word or a sound .
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