Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [verb] him " in BNC.

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1 Well he was just a slaughterman then he always used to try and have Frank , another one of our butcher boys , or David or Frank to help him .
2 Mayer was trying to console Gilbert on the day of what should have been his wedding to Garbo , but when the bride failed to appear the forsaken groom fled to the men 's room where Mayer found him crying .
3 He remained at home where Mary nursed him until he died fifteen months later .
4 ‘ I 've got to get rid of this man before Sister or Robins finds him here .
5 He showed him into the living room where Sammy greeted him , wagging his tail .
6 Dotty was n't there to cosset him , and presently he went upstairs to the wardrobe , where Prue made him a cup of tea .
7 Either Jamie Baird was particularly close to Puddephat , or Puddephat wanted him to be .
8 Wayne told Pilar , ‘ The son-of-a-bitch ca n't make a good movie without his father or Bogart to carry him . ’
9 I think that Gary rang him up and said he was going to back to work , there 's only people starting work he 's giving some people some work .
10 The Pauline Annalist reported a rumour that Arundel confessed to having plotted the death of the queen , but it is more likely that Mortimer saw him as a territorial rival in the Marches of Wales , where he had held the lordship of Chirk since the confiscations after Boroughbridge .
11 The fact that DEC plucked him out of its largest and most profitable systems businesses and split that down the middle so he could run the NT operation is proof that DEC expects significant results out of NT .
12 He made a grunting noise just to be sure that Gurder heard him .
13 Northumbrian annals record that Offa put him to flight ( perhaps with Hwiccian help ) and took the Mercian kingship .
14 He had no doubt now that Madeleine loved him , but would Sir Philip consider their shared love sufficient grounds for them to marry ?
15 When Ricky began taking Jenny out she was surprised to learn that Minton paid him money and had taken him to the Caribbean .
16 But a mutual trust and liking had been established and thereafter Alf Sparkes became a regular visitor , often arriving from Chatham at weekends on the motorbike that Minton bought him .
17 He dreamt that Lucie threw him from the parapet of a bridge into deep water , with a stone statue of Garvey tied round his neck .
18 Third , Cecil 's enemies might think that Northumberland found him ‘ either facile or not clear from servile ends ’ .
19 He was fast reaching the conclusion that Cora-Beth wanted him to feel more than a friendly affection for her ; that perhaps she even wanted him to fall in love with her .
20 Clift was told by director Elia Kazan that Dean idolized him and that although he liked Brando as well , he was more affected by Clift .
21 Erm , as we know , Bullitt was a member of the delegation and an intimate of , of Wilson , so the book is er co- authored , so in a sense we should know as we 're paying for , for all of it , because er , obviously , he relied on Bullitt to give him all this biographical information , and er , consequently what you see Freud doing in this in this book is , is er trawling through , as it were , the things that Bullitt told him , that , that Bullitt had found out , to erm , draw a kind of psy psychoanalytic portrait of Woodrow Wilson , that erm , tried to explain his problem , why did he not deliver the goods as it were .
22 I told him our plan but he was none too eager until I told him we were going to play at funerals and that Frankie wanted him to imitate the preacher ; then he came along at once .
23 It was at last year 's parade that Elham gave him the idea when she said : ‘ I wish I could enjoy what I am experiencing here , but back in my mind there are too many innocent children left with no hopes and no future .
24 Ewen obviously knew his way , but although Neil gave him room he made no further attempt to break free , or even to reach open water .
25 He pursed his big mouth into such a babyish pout that Meredith found him comical ; he sniggered .
26 And although Hick hit him out of the attack briefly , producing a second cameo of the series which included an extraordinary one-handed straight six , Patel returned downwind to sneak one through before the Zimbabwean could reach a maiden Test half-century .
27 He received an internal phone call from Muldoon , who told him that McGillicuddy wanted him to go on to Dublin immediately .
28 Like the second course that Barnett entered him for , this time for an accounting system .
29 But , she says , she did think that Ken showed him a certain degree of respect .
30 Theodore 's reconciliation with Wilfrid took place in the context of Caedwalla 's dramatic ascendancy in southern England and if it is true that he expressed the wish that Wilfrid succeed him at Canterbury ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 43 ) this may have been in recognition of Caedwalla 's new regime with which Wilfrid was associated .
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