Example sentences of "[pron] [coord] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 31 | I ‘ hung ’ them and asked him to choose which one was best . |
| 32 | The man heard or sensed him at the last moment and turned with his hands coming up to a fighting stance but Maxim feinted through them and hit him low in the stomach . |
| 33 | ( With an inattentive , hyperactive child you might hold him in front of you and ask him to repeat your request as a check that he has ‘ taken it in ’ . ) |
| 34 | The wife must have guessed it was you and tipped him off . |
| 35 | He thought to himself , right , you 've called the boy Hilbert to please me , to make me like him , so I damn well will like him , I 'll like him more than you and leave him the place over your head . ’ |
| 36 | As Silver followed Bigwig , it recovered itself and faced him squarely . |
| 37 | You only have to tell him something or show him something once . |
| 38 | You only have to tell him something or show him something once . |
| 39 | It would be very simple to tell him everything and leave him to unscramble the truth contained in the confusion . |
| 40 | He drew back his leg as if to kick her , but she quickly turned and pulled the other one and brought him down . |
| 41 | So I , I , I said I 'd ring him back and , I , this bloke 's supposed to be here before one he 'd got half hour to turn up if he 's not here at one I 'm gon na ring this other one and tell him he can do it . |
| 42 | He thought he 'd find a rich one and sell him the cross for a good price . |
| 43 | At the very least I can find the keynote speaker at each one and chase him . |
| 44 | His role at the head of the military administration was a creative one and satisfied him up to a point . |
| 45 | " Have this one and save him from a fate worse than death . " |
| 46 | Ginny braced herself and kissed him . |
| 47 | She took him to herself and loved him in the mystical , supreme way she believed her mother had loved her father ; she gave him everything — her innocence , her youth , her maidenhead . |
| 48 | Overbalancing , she clutched at Finn to save herself but pulled him over with her . |
| 49 | And last night the Prime Minister 's despairing supporters were trotting out the ‘ back him or sack him ’ line that Mrs Thatcher used to fall back on when she was in trouble . |
| 50 | If someone tries to harm you in London , it will be hard to stop him or catch him afterwards . |
| 51 | You are to search out the traitor Raphael and , when you find him , kill him or bring him back for me . ’ |
| 52 | Rain said : ‘ I do n't know whether to admire him or despise him . |
| 53 | One could only fear him or fight him , and she had chosen to fight long ago . |
| 54 | Would release embarrass him or cut him off from that obscure membership of the masculine club ? |
| 55 | Lucy did n't for one moment think that she could trick him or trip him , but knew that he 'd see her as young and naive and so might just let her get away with a little more . |
| 56 | Susan wondered how she would feel if he did ; or if she touched him or let him know in some other way that she was there ? |
| 57 | Hitherto the older waist-band had tended to slip on to the horse 's neck and either throttle him or prevent him from pulling hard ; hence the slower and less efficient ox had been generally used . |
| 58 | I 'll have it out of him or turn him over to the press gang . |
| 59 | Yeltsin had said at a press conference after the Alma Ata meeting that " we do not want to follow the tradition which has taken shape since 1917 of burying each [ former ] head and leader of the state and subsequently reburying him or regarding him as a criminal " . |
| 60 | Gabriel had broken his apprentice 's bond and no one had hanged him or flogged him or thrown him into prison . |