Example sentences of "[adv] i [vb past] him [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later on I heard him go with them to the dorm . |
| 2 | Only I saw him sigh , for Lili and Robert were looking not at him but at the walls , and he found me too negligible to bother to disguise his ennui . |
| 3 | Aye , perhaps I saw him like , cos I was upstairs like . |
| 4 | In I made him eat his potatoes , similarly , where the realizer of eat is " him " only , the person referred to by the direct object is represented as being involved in eating at the same time during which he is the object of the causation denoted by make : since make evokes the idea of " producing an effect " , it is impossible to conceive the making as being under way before the effect has started coming into existence . |
| 5 | As soon as he came in I made him let me look at his head , and I dabbed some Dettol on it . |
| 6 | Bunny handed over a fiver and as I walked away I heard him whisper to Rayleen . |
| 7 | He pushed again quite hard and as I turned away I heard him snigger and say , ‘ You have to kick 'em , you know . ’ |
| 8 | Knew directly I saw him put her in a wheel-chair that we 'd a cardiac on our hands . |
| 9 | Oh well I made him worry |
| 10 | Then I heard him call down from the attic for me to open the stairs door wide . |
| 11 | Then I heard him mutter to himself : ‘ Avare comme tous les juifs ’ . |
| 12 | How I made him betray what he believed ! ’ |
| 13 | I was coming back from the shops the other day when I saw him get out of his car . |
| 14 | I remember before he became Prime Minister he was in charge of the Conservative re-think where I helped him do a lot of that work and I think he enjoyed that very much . |
| 15 | why I made him tell you . |