Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] him [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I only give him one pound twenty .
2 Did I just give him some money , I did n't did I ?
3 " May I just feed him first ? " asked Mama softly .
4 can I just ask him one question about it , erm , I 'm not an accountant and you probably , I 'm sure you know a lot more about accounts than I do , but in fact if you look at the revenue accounts for the year we 're talking about ended August nineteen ninety two at page a hundred and thirty two , do you see that ?
5 Although Tibbs warned Benn that he needed the last two rounds , I already had him five rounds up — and so did Eubank .
6 I always tell him that .
7 I always buy him some sweets .
8 ‘ Do I still make him unsure of where he is putting his feet ? ’
9 Brian and I lost fortunes back and forth between us , but Terry usually came out ahead — I still owe him two hundred dollars .
10 in the summer I usually get him some trainers er cheap , the cheapest trainers anyway , but I mean yes it 's time he has them .
11 Someone once told him that horse manure in his wellington boots would make him grow taller , but the boys at school had made fun of him and Mr Sunderland , the headmaster , had called him a stupid gullible boy and made him scrape his boots and wash them clean in the outside drain and scrub his feet in hot water and carbolic soap .
12 When I diffidently approached him one afternoon , he was , as usual , mooning over a photograph of the troublesome Diedre , whom we all knew from the pictures he constantly thrust under our noses to be extremely good-looking , and whom we suspected of being a bit of a girl on the quiet .
13 Benn added : ‘ I really want him bad .
14 In my love-making I simply held him close and let the rest take over , rounded off with a simple kiss .
15 I then appointed him Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury . ’
16 I said I almost charged him sixteen instead of
17 It 's also crucial to stop someone else finding him first . ’
18 But I never saw him depressed .
19 I never saw him last night , remember . ’
20 And there 's a photograph in th I never told him that
21 No , I never see him these days , never comes to Old Trafford .
22 I never see him these days , I do n't know why .
23 However , he had a darker side , and his commitment to his work , which often made him oblivious of companions ' feelings , was partly responsible for the failure of his first marriage .
24 After that he went to the pet shop which he despised but which occasionally sold him broken biscuits for William , cheap .
25 But you only pay him fifty percent of his salary .
26 I denounced the judges who only gave him two ( out of ten ) for his best wave , but he said , ‘ It was fair .
27 But she only loved him more .
28 Mm well you better warn him first !
29 Or had she just seen him one day , walking around the suburb where he had been born , and said to him , in that sharp voice she used for all commands : ‘ Marry Me ! ’
30 When she occasionally visited him in London or Stuttgart , she always found him busy , although he would certainly have made time for a new lover , and he did put himself out to entertain his cousin Petrie who , with his wife , turned up unexpectedly in Stuttgart during a travelling holiday .
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