Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] him [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not long after meeting him I went on a bus trip to a rally held in a big place where they had an enormous screen with Billy Graham appearing by satellite . |
| 2 | For example on page 198 , Mayella says she 's never kissed a grown man before and that it might as well be a nigger and after kissing him she says ‘ kiss me back , nigger ’ . |
| 3 | Magistrates adjourned the case against Alfred Dines after telling him they were thinking of imposing a three month jail term . |
| 4 | Prisoner of her sensations , she had no thought of denying him anything . |
| 5 | Well you should of told him you were fucking burning the place ! |
| 6 | Instead of selling him your goods , you let him have them on consignment . |
| 7 | I was the second half , an extension of him , and instead of complementing him I 'd thrown shit all over him . |
| 8 | The shock was so great that Luce was past telling him anything . |
| 9 | He advised me not to do so , as , he said , the Captain was a difficult man , and he had no intention of telling him himself . |
| 10 | That bull-necked bugger accused me of murdering him myself . ’ |
| 11 | She felt like telling him who she was and what she had done , only he would n't be interested , he 'd be embarrassed . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's like telling him there 's no Father Christmas , ’ she sniffed . |
| 13 | and he said I have to admit I did n't act on your phone call and I felt like braining him I really did |
| 14 | If only there were some compromise between calling him Your Excellency and calling him Nicolo … |
| 15 | And what was all that about sending him your regards ? |
| 16 | Besides , some of the women Nigel got drunk with told him he 'd had sex with them , so he knew he was normal . |
| 17 | She wished he were not being so kind , so tender — even if it was because he hoped to cajole her into selling him her house . |
| 18 | coerces some kid into selling him his marbles , that 's corruption is n't it ? |
| 19 | Mum , what about giving him something for being very |
| 20 | At himself for the doubts that ate at him , and at his ancestor for giving him nothing more than a string of empty platitudes . |
| 21 | You know , the number and I mean has n't been able to get round to buying space in the T T G and Travel Weekly until the first two weeks in February cos we were so late in informing him I must had this conversation has taken away the brochure so there 's not a copy here but we 'll try and get hold of some as soon as possible but I mean they 're mainly for Glasgow but had been been up there from R and D y'know and she said that the people up there did n't seem to know the slightest thing about interline how to deal with interline tickets and agency tickets and all that sort of business . |
| 22 | However , the dividing line between what is and what is not permissible is often difficult to draw , as Maugham LJ illustrated in the Wessex Dairies case : … although the servant is not entitled to make use of information which he has obtained in confidence in his master 's service he is entitled to make use of the knowledge and skill which he acquired while in that service , including knowledge and skill directly obtained from the master in teaching him his business . |
| 23 | Charlie Williams took his number 14 bus to Shaftesbury Avenue , looked at Ken 's name in lights and had he heard anyone say anything against ‘ the boy ’ would have had no difficulty in punching him one . |
| 24 | Hewas so considerate when she lost the baby a year later , overlooking that she had failed in giving him what the nurse reluctantly told her would have been a son . |
| 25 | Even Felix refrained from asking him who would notice . |
| 26 | Despite her pique about his refusal to discuss the will , she took a certain pride in showing him her brother 's room . |
| 27 | In the end , just to save myself from socking him one , I had to pretend I 'd been using the term ironically . |
| 28 | Gregson had hardly allowed him to finish speaking before telling him he 'd be there as soon as he could . |
| 29 | In rejecting him we share that same guilt , that Pilate had . |
| 30 | His mother was talking to the police at the time , but she insisted on dressing him herself , and told everyone not to touch him . |