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

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1 Now I met him at one of the numerous receptions .
2 and I tried all weekend trying to get only there from five to seven , and I got him after five o'clock on Tuesday
3 I cuddled him for four hours until he died in my hands .
4 I tell the DI why ; I tell him about two more betrayals ; about the commanding officer who had let men die to cover up his own inadequacy ( or at least Andy believed he had , which was all that mattered ) , and I tell him about the locum doctor who could n't be bothered to attend a patient and then , when he eventually did pay a visit , just assumed her pain was something trivial .
5 I usually let him out of the pram but last week I lost him for five minutes in Tesco , ’ she said .
6 Then I treated him for three days with a view of my back and my sulky face .
7 I saw him at eight o'clock .
8 So I had him for five hours , normally from 6 pm to 11 pm . ’
9 I held him with one arm and the other lay between him and the small bump that was the baby .
10 On the third floor , she led him to one of four doors , which opened on to a firelit bedroom , with a great canopied bed , steaming water-jugs and wash-basin , and a garderobe in the thickness of the walling with candle-shelf , stone seat and chute .
11 She shrivelled him with one glance .
12 PS I told Nero you 'd meet him at Dover but I should leave your chariot behind he might not understand if you cut him in two , he 's funny that way .
13 His wife 's name was Sarah ; she was five years his junior , and she predeceased him by ten months .
14 She saw him from fifty yards away , coming towards her ; then he spotted her and when they came together he was smiling and had a hand outstretched with which he took her elbow .
15 He wants you to ring him before five-thirty . ’
16 And that was , you know , that was my grandparents when they retired , you know , he was sixty five , she was younger because she was eighteen when she married him at twenty six you know .
17 When she left him in 1983 he was devastated .
18 Her marriage to John Fenwick ( possibly on 8 May 1781 at St Dunstan , Stepney ) , a radical author and translator , proved disastrous and she left him in 1800 ‘ determined … to consider myself and children totally separated from his bad or good fortunes ’ .
19 She left him in 1951 and joined Billy Smart 's circus .
20 diagram for for that erm mark five out there could you ask him for one of them ?
21 And erm we had him on two lots of antibiotics before he even had an anaesthetic to get the inflammation down and I do n't want it to get worse !
22 As the fortunes of the mine declined we discover him during 1877 paid as " John Latham and boys " with his account as low as £31 for a month ; a far cry from the 1840's-1860's when the dressing staff of old men , women , boys and girls averaged 100 and their total wages ranged from £142 to £241 .
23 Jeff was voted their Player of the Year last season , but they 've let me have him for six months .
24 The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’
25 The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’
26 He liked her to phone him for two reasons — it kept his phone bills down and if Gina answered it proved that he was fancied .
27 They acquitted him of three further charges of indecency and one of buggery .
28 They treated him like one of them , complimenting him on his astuteness , until he began to genuinely believe that it was he who had selected Node Check , that he was an expert on account trading before he 'd learned anything about the stock market in general .
29 It drove him in 1950 to establish a committee to help people in need .
30 He remembers him as one Britain 's great military commanders and a master of the under statement .
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