Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] him [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Some story about a raid , that was it , them finding ST with a stainless steel jig screwed to his pate , them sticking him in a sack , jig and all .
2 I am grateful for that because it enables me to provide him with a fuller response on those points than I might otherwise have been able to do .
3 On the following Monday some of them pursued him to a review that was taking place on Wimbledon Common , while others went to the City , occupied the Royal Exchange and picketed the coffee houses , carrying placards reading More Wages .
4 ‘ I clearly got up his nose when I asked him about a report which disputed his status as a big box-office draw , ’ says Barry .
5 At this point I thought she might be distracted by the kid whose chair was sticking out , so I asked him for a second time to move back even further .
6 I asked him for an instance of the difference between bookselling in Knightsbridge , London , and Union Street , Glasgow .
7 I asked him after a lecture he gave in Cambridge , and he looked at me in a vague way and said yes , he would .
8 And my real father — I mean my official , signed and sealed father — struck me the only time I met him as a grandiose old phoney .
9 I met him at a Conference , in Paris . ’
10 I met him at a party .
11 I met him at a dance held in the Airmen 's Mess ( so romantic ! ) , when I 'd only been at Binbrook three weeks .
12 I met him at a dance , a nice soldier who was playing double bass in the band .
13 ‘ When he was vice-president , I met him at a stage dinner when the Reagans were in the White House and we had a dance and we talked about playing tennis .
14 Apparently I met him at a conference on the economics of multiculturalism .
15 I met him at a tennis club , and he was a very , very attractive man indeed .
16 A few weeks later I met him in a wild part of Laggan .
17 Just cos I beat him in a race .
18 I found him with a kitten .
19 I found him near a pile of stacked ropes .
20 When I saw my friend Bob Hope in some comedy or other at the age of six I provided him with an imaginary wife , who was called ‘ Nothing ’ .
21 He enjoys it all with equal enthusiasm , and when I visited him in a small hut on Denham airfield where he was instructing ab initio pilots in Cessna 172s I detected the same dedication , pride and affection he has for all his aviation exploits .
22 When I detained him by a greeting , he looked up a little puzzled , saying that he thought that we lived in Cornwall Gardens .
23 One afternoon I summoned up my courage and as casually as I could I invited him for a drink after work that evening .
24 Would you rather I thrashed him within an inch of his life ?
25 I honour him as a ‘ bridge ’ between two ancient cultures — East and West — at a time when such positive influences are much needed .
26 MICHAEL WINNER and I ceased to be on speaking terms after I described him as a very average director who made very average movies .
27 I I regarded him as a a professional , highly trained officer er confidence in his judgement .
28 I told him at a funeral this afternoon that I was pulling him out of Saturday 's game .
29 ‘ Neither , ’ I told him with a grin .
30 I cried out in relief and happiness : I thought I recognised him as a former schoolmate , a boy with whom I used to exchange groans about the maths problems whose solutions so frequently eluded us .
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