Example sentences of "[verb] him [prep] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something about him was beginning to needle her , challenging her to meet him on his own terms . |
| 2 | ( Jones , as everyone would have expected , welcomed his vanquished opponent on board with great courtesy , and invited him to his own wrecked cabin for a glass of wine . ) |
| 3 | I 've pulled him out of it I pulled him out of it for the simple reason , he is the only one which is , I did n't want to segregate him on his own . |
| 4 | He seemed far away from Ruth , in a trance whose nature she could only guess at — but free , she thought , of the despair and anger that beset him in their own world . |
| 5 | We turned round and have managed to encourage him of his own volition to rejoin the others to make sure that all six enter the Pentland Firth and have a free passage out into the Atlantic . ’ |
| 6 | The effort he had put into creating another character , a Daniel Miller , would have turned in upon him and transformed him into his own words . |
| 7 | Seb always felt vaguely uncomfortable when Melody caught him on his own . |
| 8 | If letting him make love to her was the price for keeping him with her all night she would pay it gladly . |
| 9 | She had written to him while he was in prison but had received no reply , but then she had excused him in her own mind , telling herself he would be free soon , then he would come home to her and make her his bride . |
| 10 | Lufbery became obsessed by the urge to avenge his friend , which evidently pursued him until his own death in May 1918 , and he was to be the first American to earn the title of ace . |
| 11 | We could n't even bury him from our own home . |
| 12 | I asked him from which part of that county he came and when he said Preston , I told him of my own connections and was amazed to find that his parents had kept the shop in St. Paul 's Road where I had gone to buy sweets in 1920 . |
| 13 | I told him about our own lack of any real bomber force until the Germans made us build one . |
| 14 | The boys at school were sure to snigger at him behind his back , and the Irishman and his rough friends would have one more excuse to belittle him for their own amusement . |
| 15 | Get a man and mould him to their own design — onto their personal potter 's wheel he goes , all the unacceptable bits gouged out . |
| 16 | I lead a life unassociated with the physical labours that are the proper countryman 's contribution to his surroundings and which integrate him with his own creations . |
| 17 | Then like a fool he had spoken of Maud , and Sarah had seen him as nothing more than a philanderer . |
| 18 | ‘ Because she 's seen him with her own eyes ! |
| 19 | ‘ If she 's seen him with her own eyes she knows which restaurant it is . ’ |
| 20 | And to have met him on her own terms , or by accident , would have been one thing , and a delight , but to look as though she were some silly teenager following an idol … well , that was entirely another . |
| 21 | Two speechless simian Servitors attended him , one to ingest his waste and cleanse him , the other to nourish him with its own enriched blood and shift his cart from window to window — from which he gazed out , praying for an exploration vessel of his Chapter to pass this way . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'd better see him on my own . ’ |
| 23 | We do n't see him in his own right . |
| 24 | ‘ Give him a fair trial , ’ the fat bastard roared , ‘ and then hang him from his own gate ! ’ ) |
| 25 | Because Vitor had thanked him in his own language , the waiter took them both to be fellow compatriots and proceeded to chatter away in Portuguese , remarking on the sunny weather , suggesting choices of food and wine , complimenting them on Thomas 's cuteness and good behaviour . |
| 26 | Fido 's owners should be aware of this and take steps to play him at his own game . |
| 27 | Decided to play him at his own game . |
| 28 | Even if he managed to get to a horse , he had a nasty suspicion that it would follow him at its own pace . |
| 29 | From her own questioning she had made sure that Mr Miller bought only the best puppies from reliable breeders and , in turn , she had told him of her own circumstances . |
| 30 | Sigmar divided his land between the allied chiefs who had helped him during his many wars . |