Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] him [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked rather pleased with himself so I decided to ask him one more question : ‘ What do we get from chickens ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I went to see him one evening and asked to borrow it . ’ |
| 3 | I 've met him three or four times when he 's been the compere of things that I 've had some three-minute act on , and we 've seemed to get on together , but he 's not really what I go for . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've known him three years and he was always flush . |
| 5 | I 've told him four times . |
| 6 | I have to bath him two or three times a week . |
| 7 | The Hatchet had not lost those qualities which had made him one of the most respected , and feared , members of the underworld . |
| 8 | On Forgive 'N Forget 's most recent outing he had run fourth behind Combs Ditch at Haydock Park , and that horse was also in the Gold Cup field , third favourite after a highly successful season which had brought him three good prizes and a neck defeat by Wayward Lad in the King George VI Chase at Kempton Park . |
| 9 | But when he reached the place where the cart had been , which had brought him twenty miles from the nearest town , it had been stabled out of sight . |
| 10 | He married hometown girl Vera in 1971 and she has borne him five children , including twins . |
| 11 | He had returned her stare and she 'd sent him one of her brilliant , flashing smiles , but his features had remained completely impassive . |
| 12 | But then you start to overtake him seventy miles an hour or so . |
| 13 | He never married Tarita , his leading lady in Mutiny on the Bounty , but she did give him two children . |
| 14 | She had sent him four stout dependable Marks and Spencer shirts for Christmas , nursing him like a mother who respects her child 's independence . |
| 15 | And I will have a piece of tape which says , ‘ Well yes of course you would expect the Chairman of the County Council to get food poisoning in this particular restaurant because we have prosecuted him three times . |
| 16 | They agreed to pay him thirty three thousand pounds but he rejected the offer . |
| 17 | So in the first case they 've given him , the first place they 've given him six six six five allowances but then they pull back the total of those three . |
| 18 | They had given him one written statement . |
| 19 | His discipline , his dedication , and his pursuit of excellence may not have made him the most charismatic of world class players , but it has made him one of the most respected . |
| 20 | It had cost him twenty-five shillings , but worth it because of not being able to keep it out of the library long . |
| 21 | He said he was sorry , but it had taken him 10 days to walk here . ’ |
| 22 | Asked why it had taken him 26 years to return , he said : ‘ I was n't invited till last year — though if I had been before perestroika , I would have thought not twice but 10 times about it , and I 'm not sure I would have come . ’ |
| 23 | It had taken him two days to get a seat on the Paris Express from Madrid . |
| 24 | He had looked at one , years ago , but it had taken him three days to read it , carefully , from cover to cover , by which time he realized that , if he was going to do the thing at all conscientiously , he would never be abreast of current developments . |
| 25 | It had promised him 1000 florins a year in a year 's time . |
| 26 | It 's cost him twenty thousand pounds . |
| 27 | so anyway he 's he 's engaged and it 's taken him two years to get engaged so it 's gon na take another couple of years to get married . |
| 28 | But if it 's taken him 28 years to rediscover the show , the character 's never left him : ‘ All that Cockney toughness is just a cover for the inability to love , ’ he says of Littlechap , but it could as easily apply to him ( 'I 'm desperately childish . |
| 29 | It 's taken him three years to organise the race , and select the crews . |