Example sentences of "[pron] [coord] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we shake someone and ask him if he was asleep he usually has a definite answer . |
| 2 | I found myself talking to someone and watching him go to sleep on his feet . |
| 3 | As the taxi jolted through the streets of Butterfield , she linked her arm through his and kissed him . |
| 4 | She put her face to his and kissed him . |
| 5 | She had modelled her speech on his and asked him to correct her if she said something wrong . |
| 6 | They must have drunk deeply because the very next week in her column Beatrice introduces her readers to a ‘ charming book of Breton verse by Max Jacob ’ , translates a poem of his and describes him as ‘ one of the few classical critics in the world ’ . |
| 7 | A hand caught his and drew him quietly into the room . |
| 8 | Alan 's ideas were so good that the Creative Director could n't believe they were his and set him a difficult test which had to be carried out in the agency . |
| 9 | Isobel stared at him , then laughed , drew her arm through his and pulled him towards the door . |
| 10 | But first I think we should phone Azadi himself and tell him in no uncertain terms that we are as unhappy about this as he is . |
| 11 | It answered the question he had asked himself and told him that the bones of a very young child had been found as well as those of a young woman . |
| 12 | His scores may not sound impressive but Clarke was obviously impressed by the Sheffielder 's effort against John Wisden , Hillyer and himself and asked him to join the ranks . |
| 13 | I made sure Frankie washed himself and warned him to behave himself as well . |
| 14 | In all its forms , its object is to raise man above himself and to make him lead a life superior to that which he would lead , if he followed only his own individual whims : beliefs express this life in representations ; rites organize it and regulate its working . |
| 15 | To which and looking him straight in the face , she had answered , ‘ Do n't count on it , ever . ’ |
| 16 | When PC Stennett was sent to investigate he searched Hagans , but he found nothing and left him in the car park . |
| 17 | She was convinced her 18-year-old son 's pop dreams would come to nothing and pressured him to accept a job offer from a bank . |
| 18 | She lifted her head defiantly , wanting to spare him nothing and to make him feel an absolute heel . |
| 19 | ‘ He — I knew what would happen — last time he — he started — he got Gary off me and left him — in his cot , he was screaming , he were scared-he was rough you see he gets rough when he 's drunk , he does n't think — ’ |
| 20 | Yet again , looking at this urbane relaxed figure seated opposite me and comparing him with the romantic figures of Spender and others or with the scruffy Auden , I found it difficult to believe that he was a poet and not rather some worldly and successful company director . |
| 21 | ‘ I forced his legs free , wrapped him round me and dragged him out through the flames . |
| 22 | We set off in file moving along a narrow gauge railway in pitch darkness I was trying desperately to keep in contact with the Frenchman in front of me and cursing him when he stopped suddenly , causing me to bang my face on his rucksack . |
| 23 | I shall hire Benedict to live with me and leave him the place in my will ! ’ |
| 24 | I carry sugar lumps around with me and feed him those . |
| 25 | she say that , and she say that and she 's always writing your name over the books and everything , okay , oh yeah , you must ask him if he fancies me and love him and ask him why he do n't he phone me that often , ask him that , you must say , right yeah , but do n't tell him that I told you to ask him , yeah |
| 26 | ‘ Andrew had his defences down as Waterworth came across in front of me and hit him in the mouth and knocked his head on the floor . |
| 27 | I came down when she called me and found him standing in the living-room with a look of distaste on his face as he looked round at the overflowing ash trays , the dirty grate , the pile of chair cushions tumbled in the middle of the floor . |
| 28 | As soon as I got out of the house , I was told by our neighbours where my father was hiding , but I realized that if I went to speak to him , some SS soldier might follow me and arrest him . |
| 29 | And they spat on him , and took the reed and began to beat him on the head , and after they had mocked him they took his robe off and put his garments on them and led him away to be , to crucify him . |
| 30 | But then a teacher would come and ruin it all , scattering them and chasing him . |