Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] him [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to catch him this morning , before we went to our appointments , but he would n't speak to me . |
| 2 | When he left I phoned to wish him all the best and he said , ‘ keep on picking people 's brains ’ . ’ |
| 3 | I promised to tell him all about my murder when I 'd written it . |
| 4 | He was sure I was going to be sent to Siberia but I 'd given him all my film and all the pictures that I 'd taken already . |
| 5 | They 'd given him some papers , and somebody had gone to the cashier for his money ( it made a nice fat bulge in his hip pocket ; he patted it now and again as he walked , just to make sure it was still there ) and eventually he 'd signed some papers . |
| 6 | ‘ I think it would have been brilliant if they 'd given him more of a chance and if he 'd given a bit more . |
| 7 | Fa : During that week that he had that he was in absolute agony and night time seemed to affect him more than during the day . |
| 8 | It seemed to shake him more than she had anticipated . |
| 9 | The weight of Garvey on his narrow , bony shoulders , combined with the close fit of the donkey-head , seemed to cause him some distress , because he suddenly reeled up against a wall and snatched off the head . |
| 10 | Well he thought your dad was buying that mould from Jim so he did say that , he , he 'd lent him that book on how to actually build them , but that 's |
| 11 | She 'd seen him many times then , everyone else had dropped him , and only moneyed privilege had kept him out of the gutter . |
| 12 | He 's er he 's saying that er the shifting of the ground 's political but I 'd to remember him that er , th it 's the council that 's doing their job , he 's not doing his job . |
| 13 | They thought he was a bit peculiar , maybe , but they 'd accepted him all the same . |
| 14 | Small moans of protest sounded in her throat but they seemed to excite him more , because he growled with satisfaction , his lips branding hers with heat . |
| 15 | ‘ I love you , ’ she told him , as she 'd told him many times before . |
| 16 | She had n't simply evaded him ; she 'd evaded him each time with an ease that had left him looking like a fool . |
| 17 | When it was loose at night he gathered it in his hands and buried his face against it before kissing her , and it seemed to give him more satisfaction than the hurried , clumsy act of love which followed . |
| 18 | Kenneth rotated his shoulders as he drove , trying to ease the nagging pain in them that too much drink the night before always seemed to give him these days . |
| 19 | She leaned on Craig 's shoulder as if she 'd known him all her life . |
| 20 | I 'd known him all my life . |
| 21 | She 'd known him less than a week and was already on to his annoying habits . |
| 22 | Her lips were swollen against her pale face and the sight of her distress seemed to infuriate him more . |
| 23 | Like Anne , Maureen had often felt uneasy about Sarah 's relationship with Terry and thought that she seemed to regard him more as a brother than a lover . |
| 24 | She 'd tossed him some bait , and he 'd swallowed the rod . |
| 25 | She hated to face him all pale and pinched , with heavy eyes and mauve shadows beneath them . |
| 26 | " Yeah , but when you got Lorne Guyland in a picture , you got to give him some beef , you got to give him some size , you got to give him some — it 's got to be like big , you know ? |
| 27 | " Yeah , but when you got Lorne Guyland in a picture , you got to give him some beef , you got to give him some size , you got to give him some — it 's got to be like big , you know ? |
| 28 | " Yeah , but when you got Lorne Guyland in a picture , you got to give him some beef , you got to give him some size , you got to give him some — it 's got to be like big , you know ? |
| 29 | Braidwood , however , found that Geikie was so well educated and so far in advance of the other students that he began to use him more as an assistant teacher rather than as a pupil . |
| 30 | He was older , seventy , and his legs began to give him such pain . |