Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] him this " 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 | Their lamb chops had arrived as she finished telling him this sad story . |
| 3 | ‘ You went to see him this morning … ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ We did give him this massive bouquet , though , ’ said Debi . |
| 5 | No , but Mr did , did tell him this morning . |
| 6 | Jean-Paul flicked the pages ; he could n't see why Edouard had given him this . |
| 7 | If a magistrate or other influential figure in a town was the owner of a building in which an excise office was then located , he too was vulnerable to pressure should he waver in his loyalty to the political interest which had given him this tenant . |
| 8 | The proctor minor of his chamber , Baal Firenze , had assigned him this mission , presumably acting on the instructions of a Hidden Master . |
| 9 | He said that an English sergeant who acted as orderly in the ‘ cooler ’ had told him this , and that he had promised to come back later in the day with some cigarettes for us . |
| 10 | He just did n't comprehend what she had told him this afternoon . |
| 11 | Someone had called him this more as an insult than a compliment but Francis took a liking to it and you will find salamanders carved all over his palaces . |
| 12 | His lovely Janine had brought him this low , had brought Michael Ryan into his home . |
| 13 | Guilt because she had not been at her father 's side when death had sent him this violent warning . |
| 14 | I wrote to tell him this , and also referring to another book he had sent me , and I received a reply dated 19 March 1937 : |
| 15 | I am glad that he did answer it , as I wanted to ask him this : has he learnt any lessons from the report , particularly those related to ability streaming ? |
| 16 | And after that , wherever you go it must be far away because , as Father said , he missed killing him this time , but he wo n't the next . |
| 17 | There were so many ways she wanted to tell him this , all of them inadequate to express her feelings . |