Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | You see , Father , ’ Corbett continued , ‘ some time ago Monsieur de Craon tried to gain access to Godstowe and was refused , so he looked around for someone to keep him appraised of developments at the priory , particularly Lady Eleanor 's movements . |
| 32 | I ask him stupid things like , ‘ Where have you been for the past six months ? ’ |
| 33 | It was the last time I saw him alive . |
| 34 | And later that night I saw him dead . ’ |
| 35 | I saw him dead . |
| 36 | The arrangement suits me fine and Kristian is happy because I spoil him rotten . |
| 37 | But then — I thought him marvellous as far as I can remember . |
| 38 | I apoligise for putting a long list of questions to the Minister , but I gave him advance notice and I hope that he will answer most of them . |
| 39 | He did this with very little effort , and I gave him small wooden cubes so that he could make a cube to keep . |
| 40 | ‘ I gave him financial reasons . |
| 41 | A tinker accosted me in the bar , asking for a glass of brandy , but I gave him short shrift . |
| 42 | So I gave him slack line and waited again . |
| 43 | If I do him brown or put in white all round |
| 44 | I bought him different clothes , and had his hair cut , but to me he looked just the same , and I lived in constant fear that he would be recognized by someone who had known him in the past . |
| 45 | I call him Stewpid . |
| 46 | Back at the hotel , I help him clear up the lounge bar , which still bears the debris from Andy 's last party a few months earlier . |
| 47 | I left him free to choose and dare |
| 48 | Benjamin became lost in his own thoughts so I left him alone and lay on my own bed thinking about Mathilda until the bell sounded for supper . |
| 49 | Anyway , the point was that Fagg left me alone and I left him alone . |
| 50 | I wish him well , and know that he will do everything to continue and enhance the magazine 's success . |
| 51 | The right hon. Member for Worcester will be leaving the House at the end of this Parliament , and I wish him well . |
| 52 | I wish him well in that job . |
| 53 | I wish him well but realistically he is n't likely to get more than a couple here and there . |
| 54 | I wish him well in his er efforts to become a candidate in the forthcoming European elections . |
| 55 | Er , that same prophet Isaiah , in the same chapter , he says surely , our griefs he himself bore , and our sorrows he carried , yet we ourselves esteemed him stricken , smitten of God and afflicted but he was pierced through for our transgressions , he was crushed for inequities , the chastening for our wellbeing fell upon him . |
| 56 | I see him sluggish and stoned in my mind 's eye , his ginger hair and heavy lidded eyes , his clammy , groping hands and nothing to call his own . |
| 57 | I see him bad spirit . |
| 58 | ‘ Somebody got him pissed , I expect ; it was n't difficult . ’ |
| 59 | He explained that part of his treatment was a steroid which made him hyperactive and sweaty , and cursed the fact that he could n't keep still . |
| 60 | He and Ranulf were ignored , which made him uneasy . |