Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried getting him slimmer once as I thought it might help him to jump even better , but it did n't suit him . |
| 2 | I tried to catch him this morning , before we went to our appointments , but he would n't speak to me . |
| 3 | I promised to set him free . ’ |
| 4 | I promised to tell him all about my murder when I 'd written it . |
| 5 | When he left I phoned to wish him all the best and he said , ‘ keep on picking people 's brains ’ . ’ |
| 6 | No , and I had I er I had tried to appeal to him to be quiet , he said well I 've got to build this shed , I said well it do n't have to be during the night when other people are trying to sleep , he said well that 's up to them , and he started hammering again , while I was talking to him , and then I kept on and on and eventually , I think while I was talking to him I 'd kept him quiet while I was talking to him . |
| 7 | He 's er he 's saying that er the shifting of the ground 's political but I 'd to remember him that er , th it 's the council that 's doing their job , he 's not doing his job . |
| 8 | He were parked up there well every coalman I 've pulled him about this coke stuff and I 'd seen him other day and I pulled him , explained that I were going over on April first |
| 9 | I 'd seen him earlier that night , here at the house , behaving in a way that made me very anxious to find out what he was doing here on Moila . ’ |
| 10 | I 'd called him Chinless Wonder on the same basis that regular enlisted men in the Army call Sandhurst graduates ‘ Ruperts ’ . |
| 11 | He was sure I was going to be sent to Siberia but I 'd given him all my film and all the pictures that I 'd taken already . |
| 12 | I 'd known him all my life . |
| 13 | Thereafter I never attacked Rowse 's political views in print , and , when I came to know him better , I no longer felt I had reason to do so . |
| 14 | ‘ Someone forgot to release him last night , ’ one of them shouted . |
| 15 | He said he could do that in a few minutes after getting to his office , and I arranged to ring him later in the morning . |
| 16 | He looked rather pleased with himself so I decided to ask him one more question : ‘ What do we get from chickens ? ’ |
| 17 | When I thought five minutes were up I decided to give him another five . |
| 18 | I decided to offer him some food . |
| 19 | ‘ Yesterday probably because the photos were n't in the house when I called to see him last night . |
| 20 | ‘ I went to see him one evening and asked to borrow it . ’ |
| 21 | I went to see him several times before I went home ’ . |
| 22 | I had seen him angry . |
| 23 | I thought I had sent him some that were very good , but I received a most snarky letter from him saying " They may be very fine artists but they do n't know anything about teaching , and I 'm not interested in any of your geniuses unless they really take trouble about the job in hand " . |
| 24 | I was with him , holding the drip inside the bag , and I had to wrench him free and get out before we ran out of air . |
| 25 | He sounded like my mother at that moment and I was surprised , for I had thought him weak . |
| 26 | I had to prove him wrong . |
| 27 | I felt I had to make him happy after all the sad things which had happened to him , so I told him his English was very good . |
| 28 | Like a flash I had laid him all out on the ground , |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It was the first time that someone had cut him dead , and it was a shock . |