Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | My heart , to love him ; my will , to do his will , my mind , to glorify him ; my tongue , to speak to him and of him ; my eyes to see him in all things ; my hands to bring whatever they touch to him ; my all only to be a real ‘ all ’ : because it is joined to him . |
| 2 | My guards shot him . ’ |
| 3 | I think my guards bribed him to let us pass . |
| 4 | ‘ One of my pictures showed him hugging both little girls in the pool . |
| 5 | My parents raised him . |
| 6 | " My parents know him , though . |
| 7 | As no temporary accommodation could be found for him in Štanjel my parents gave him a room in our house ; his family joined him there when we left . |
| 8 | My constituents saw him as a responsible Government officer who came to the House to say that the Government washed their hands of the matter and would leave it alone . |
| 9 | Funnily enough , it was one of my nephews brought him the message — Josh 's eldest boy , Jimmy . |
| 10 | ‘ My men found him in the garden , not in the house . |
| 11 | My men picked him up as he came over the Luxembourg border . |
| 12 | I smiled at both of them and told his friend my clothes suited him . |
| 13 | Presumably they imagined their confidences led him to regard them with disgust or pity or contempt . |
| 14 | Despite her attempts to have him killed , husband George Taylor pleaded with the Judge that his wife be spared a jail sentence . |
| 15 | He too had been strictly brought up but seems to have shrugged off his mother 's influence in that as easily as he resisted her attempts to make him a practising Jew . |
| 16 | But he had blocked all her attempts to anoint him with love and sympathy . |
| 17 | But her attempts to prise him away were met by violence and verbal aggression . |
| 18 | To Peggy Say , Anderson 's sister , it seemed that some particularly keen sympathy compelled North never to turn down her requests to see him , when all she would do was sit at his desk upbraiding him and complaining and crying ; and when all he could do was repeat , cryptically , infuriatingly , that the government was doing everything it could possibly think of . |
| 19 | He fought their attempts to carry him out with the strength of one possessed . |
| 20 | So now he walked , still angry with them , but glad to be away , glad to have salvaged something from yet another of their attempts to grind him down . |
| 21 | She had been rapt at his every phrase , pen ready to score out any word or even a comma in her essays to please him . |
| 22 | Even so , the savagery of her words surprised him . |
| 23 | He went on gazing into the flames and she knew his thoughts were too far away for her words to reach him . |
| 24 | There was an infinitesimal silence as her words reached him , sank in . |
| 25 | She felt the wave of shock that ran through him as her words hit him . |
| 26 | He was as little at home in the country as in town ; he believed ardently in social freedom but its ambiguities made him equally ill at ease with all classes . |
| 27 | He tried earnestly to look cheerful , but their words made him shake with fear , sweat and turn hot and cold . |
| 28 | Their doubts shook him . |
| 29 | At the dream 's end he permits her messengers to find him . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's easy to be frightened , ’ Frick said as he walked round the table , behind them , their eyes following him . |