Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb past] him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Tibbs warned Benn that he needed the last two rounds , I already had him five rounds up — and so did Eubank . |
| 2 | When I diffidently approached him one afternoon , he was , as usual , mooning over a photograph of the troublesome Diedre , whom we all knew from the pictures he constantly thrust under our noses to be extremely good-looking , and whom we suspected of being a bit of a girl on the quiet . |
| 3 | In my love-making I simply held him close and let the rest take over , rounded off with a simple kiss . |
| 4 | I then appointed him Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury . ’ |
| 5 | I said I almost charged him sixteen instead of |
| 6 | But I never saw him depressed . |
| 7 | I never saw him last night , remember . ’ |
| 8 | And there 's a photograph in th I never told him that |
| 9 | But she only loved him more . |
| 10 | When she occasionally visited him in London or Stuttgart , she always found him busy , although he would certainly have made time for a new lover , and he did put himself out to entertain his cousin Petrie who , with his wife , turned up unexpectedly in Stuttgart during a travelling holiday . |
| 11 | She silently called him all the names she could think of , then repeated the choicer ones for good measure , as she sluiced her face in cold water . |
| 12 | Always generous , he invited her to drink coffee in the evening and she never saw him drunk . |
| 13 | The first man , Maui , begged Mafulke for a little fire and she reluctantly gave him one of her fingers . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , to let Blackbeard know we only charged him fifty per cent for returning it . ’ |
| 15 | So he came out and we really slapped him hard ! |
| 16 | Duke of Lancaster he is , with every right , and we never denied him that title , and never would . |
| 17 | They were great friends — there were three of them : Uncle , Gifford Tate , and Papa Burger-I do n't know why ‘ papa ’ but they always called him that . |
| 18 | It only took him six years to become a partner after spells in London and New York . |
| 19 | It only took him another four years to feel the same way . |
| 20 | He strove to keep his face from that wall as it inexorably pulled him closer . |
| 21 | It always made him sick when he was expected to watch the turkey-killings . |
| 22 | She had a terrible temper , and it always made him double up when she swore at him and clenched her fists . |
| 23 | If it occasionally had Cnut in difficulties , it also offered him considerable opportunities , and it is no less generous to the historian , who is better informed upon it than any other aspect of Cnut 's rule . |
| 24 | But it also made him invaluable as an occasional centre-forward . |
| 25 | He also sent him some of his famed fake letters in the name of ‘ Edna Welthorpe ’ — a character he invented for his own fun and that of the few chosen intimates who were allowed to receive them . |
| 26 | Henry knew nothing about the new papal anathemas of which Anselm was the bearer , and he immediately required him first to renew the homage which he had done to Rufus , and then to consecrate his chancellor William Giffard to the bishopric of Winchester , with which he had invested him on his coronation day . |