Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] him [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Her father would joke about him to her when he 'd had a drink over much : ‘ Ready-made son you 've got now then , daughter , is it ? ’ he 'd say .
2 They have no , they have no personal , erm , relationship with me er , I 'll give you the example of one of our , erm er , er er erm , er most recent directors who 's , who 's just joined the board , Mr Ruben , who 's the head of Colgate Palmo Palmolive , and I just described to him to you how we , erm how we , er er er er er selected him .
3 I ought not to talk about him to you .
4 Before I could get to talk with him about it , somebody else shot him .
5 When will you go and speak to him about it ? ’
6 She 's a very conceited woman , Pete the adulterous told me she was a very conceited woman and er Neil says I I I 'd have to talk to him to him about this , she could n't discuss anything with him she would lay down the law , that was how it had to be and I said no I said Gerry and I , I had no hesitation , as I said , in putting the boot in and Brenda and Dave take the same the attitude to children that you let them first of all when they 're small , you have to tell them no like you do not
7 She had tried to talk to him about it .
8 I tried to talk to him about it several times , but he would walk out on me .
9 He and I had had a heart to heart in the hotel following some comments supposedly made by him about me in the press , more particularly in the Sun .
10 He ignored her question ( " because I 'm a woman " , thought Miriam ) but smiled soothingly and said : " Will you look after him for me , Mrs Lang ?
11 ‘ You 'll look after him for me , wo n't you ? ’ she 'd said to me after we 'd got him unpacked and she could n't think of anything else which might prevent her from leaving .
12 There was a long long silence , then , ‘ Look after him for me , Leith , ’ Rosemary requested , and rang off .
13 Will you come look after him for us ?
14 Alas , what will become of him without us to defend him ? "
15 ‘ You sound like him to me . ’
16 Have you ever talked to him about her ?
17 And she had talked to him about me . ’
18 I 've talked to him about it . ’
19 I mean if I had n't have known him , then there 's no way I could have talked to him about it .
20 We always had to chase after him for it and he 'd never give her more than a pound a week .
21 Why not go back and let Charlie get rid of him for me ?
22 They all returned from him to you ,
23 He broke down and cried when we talked to him about it . ’
24 Er , it 's like , it 's like the foreman on the shopfloor for some reason , there 's a er , in the systems or whatever , er , the warehouseman er , the night porter er , when he takes over , he knows what he 's doing , he knows what I want , because I 've spoken to him about it , erm , he knows what items I want to leave for stock people , erm , and Sue , the checkout manager , she 'll know if I want extra people on the shopfloor because we 're quiet , or I expect it to be quiet , erm , she knows where they 've got to be , and I 'll come back and review it with her .
25 ‘ I 'll take it to the hospital this morning , ’ she said , adding rather pathetically , ‘ and talk to him about it . ’
26 He thought you might like to get something on paper before you talk to him about it
27 I was unresponsive and kept joking with him about it — but I made it clear I was n't interested .
28 But I I do n't know , he did n't say and I was n't going to argue with him on it .
29 Yeah no problem I 'll see Peter at work , I 'll , I 'll , I 'll pr er I will mention to him about it cos I was very impressed with , yes certainly I 'll mention it to him and er Alan , if he 's , if there 's a game on Saturday yes I 'll , I 'll I could mention it to him .
30 Yet that was the situation Rodet was accepting ; and Wolff had not sneered at him for it .
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