Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] him [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was so terrified that I fought him all the way . |
| 2 | I make fun of him , I attack him all the time , but he senses when I 'm ‘ soft ’ . |
| 3 | How could I tell him all the reasons for my unhappiness ! |
| 4 | I gave him such a black look , however , that the smile froze on his face . |
| 5 | I gave him all the particulars he needed — my name , address , the hospital where I worked , and the number of my Austin Seven . |
| 6 | Well I gave him all the information that had been given to me and we discussed between us various options that were open to us . |
| 7 | ‘ I gave him half an hour and then I went for a spin . ’ |
| 8 | With someone watching him all the time except when one of Them let the other out to fetch the papers . |
| 9 | ‘ I miss him all the time , ’ said Ben quietly . |
| 10 | But his sacking was an injustice and I wish him all the best in his appeal . ’ |
| 11 | He added : ‘ Tony and I are good friends and I wish him all the best . |
| 12 | I hope that the Minister is more successful with his new portfolio than his predecessors were and I wish him all the best in the difficult task that lies ahead of him . |
| 13 | In its asides — quite apart from what he tells us about Milton — we see what it was about Lewis which struck W. T. Kirkpatrick as so remarkable , and which made him such a valued teacher and friend to so many people in the course of his life . |
| 14 | Robert Forbes pulled out before his partners were indicted , a manoeuvre which cost him all the accumulated wealth of Lorna Lewis 's golden days . |
| 15 | Lucier had taken himself up to the gallery of the chapel — a climb which cost him all the strength that was left him . |
| 16 | Here too he has been most thoroughly tested , and the fact that Padre Martini , the idol of the Italians , speaks of him with great admiration and has himself set him all the tests , has increased his reputation all over Italy . |
| 17 | ‘ I must write to Holmes at once , ’ I said , and I went straight to my room and wrote a letter to Holmes , which gave him all the details of Barrymore 's story . |
| 18 | Fash 's packed schedule — he often holds business meetings well into the small hours and averages just five hours sleep a night — has not affected the common touch which makes him such a popular figure at Wimbledon . |
| 19 | ‘ I helped you by clearing all the leaves in the yard , ’ she told him half a dozen times , ‘ and I got a cold while I was doing it . |
| 20 | She followed him half an hour later , pleased to find him already asleep when she crept into the bedroom . |
| 21 | They wrangled interminably , he goading her into outbursts of anger just to watch her beauty at its best , she calling him all the names she could lay her tongue to . |
| 22 | Why , oh , why did you tell him such a dreadful fib ? ’ |
| 23 | Not in an evil way at all , but if you gave him half a chance he 'd hammer you into the ground and stamp on you . |
| 24 | It put him five shots behind South Shields ' Jimmy Dryden , who chased him all the way last season in the Northern Masters , but when Dryden crumbled to an 81 , McLure moved to the top of the leader board by covering the open seven holes in level par in his second round and played superb golf to finish with a 72 . |
| 25 | We wish him all the very best . |
| 26 | That 's right , he 's gone to near neighbours , Buckingham erm we wish him all the best there , he 's done a fine job for us over two years . |
| 27 | The upshot of this long sessions was that Eliot asked me to send him all the relevant documents , which I did in a letter of 20 May . |
| 28 | ‘ They helped him many a time to keep his head above water or else we should have been in a poor way . ’ |
| 29 | And why was it that this deep empathy with the hard done by inspired her to give him such a hard time ? |
| 30 | They tells him all the problems . |