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 . |