Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] him [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had sent her , with Ned and the barmaids and Heaven knew how many others watching , to wait for him in his bed . |
| 2 | Without another word he turned and strode towards the escalator , leaving Matchsticks to struggle after him with his heavy case . |
| 3 | The solution was to let her initiate everything , to allow her to come towards him in her own time . |
| 4 | His great-nephew described how when at home on Sundays the Bishop would have twelve poor men and women to dine with him in his hall , ‘ always endeavouring while he fed their bodies to comfort their spirits by some cheerful discourse , generally mixt with some useful instruction . |
| 5 | When Duval was arrested in London , high society queued to commiserate with him in his cell . |
| 6 | I mean I know through the summer holidays that I 've really got to get to work with him on his maths , likewise I know I 've got a lot of work to do myself for |
| 7 | I used to work with him in my mother 's shop — he worked there for twenty-five years , until he died a few years ago . |
| 8 | I had had to talk about him to someone to ease my mind . |
| 9 | I ought not to talk about him to you . |
| 10 | Before I could get to talk with him about it , somebody else shot him . |
| 11 | Staring at him , at the strength , the energy that always seemed to radiate from him despite his easy , relaxed air , she did n't believe a word of it . |
| 12 | He said she was jealous that her husband had taken another girlfriend and was encouraged to split from him by her parents . |
| 13 | I ca n't reproduce the way he talks — you 'll have to listen to him for yourself — but he just sort of zooms off . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | He termintade that counselling , butr we are willing to talk to him through his partish priest or bishop . |
| 16 | She had tried to talk to him about it . |
| 17 | I tried to talk to him about it several times , but he would walk out on me . |
| 18 | She tried to smile more , to talk to him about his fishing and his plans for the future . |
| 19 | But this week I went along to ‘ the other Headingley ’ where he plies his trade week-in , week-out to talk to him about his hopes and ambitions and how he saw the season panning out for his big-spending club . |
| 20 | When he had been given to Uncle Farmborough to be his heir and to look after him in his old age , he was considered fortunate — but how could a child reconcile itself to such a strange state of affairs that he had been given away , to the fact that his own father and mother , brother and sister , lived quite near in the village but , as it were , in a different camp ? |
| 21 | Much as poetry was becoming a part of him , his most natural form of self-expression , and the one that reached him first , was music ; side-by-side they were to advance with him throughout his developing days and early professional life . |
| 22 | Even though she almost wholly accepted who Tammuz was , if only as an abstract , she still found it very difficult to look upon him as her father in flesh and blood . |
| 23 | The disasters that befell his army paradoxically heightened his personal charisma : even the barons of Outremer continued to look on him as their one potential saviour . |
| 24 | She raised her head to look at him between her bare knees . |
| 25 | I tried to smile at him through my tears , but I realized it had n't turned out very well , so I squeezed his hand which I was holding . |
| 26 | The latter quality was to remain with him throughout his career , for whatever else his faults may have been , no one ever slighted James 's desire to win : to win at anything and everything , from backgammon through girls to any sport he ever played . |
| 27 | In other words , he is free to do what Picasso was trying to do for him in his painting . |
| 28 | We always had to chase after him for it and he 'd never give her more than a pound a week . |
| 29 | Elton alleges the reporter used a helicopter to spy on him at his Atlanta home , and threatened to run a negative story if he did n't agree to an interview . |
| 30 | ‘ You mean she 's frightened of the doctor and she thinks you 're going to send for him behind her back ? ’ |