Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] him [prep] [pron] " 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 | When will you go and speak to him about it ? ’ |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | Alas , what will become of him without us to defend him ? " |
| 6 | Did you ever remember with him with his ha , with his hair extensions ? |
| 7 | As Bacci emerged through the blue fog that had collected near the door it occurred to the Captain that if Fusarri had been the normal sort of Substitute he would have had to go and report to him at his office , leaving his own smoke-free . |
| 8 | His absence meant that Miriam could stay with him in his flat until Durkin returned . |
| 9 | He said they must meet later , she must come and eat with him in his room and he would get a bottle of wine . |
| 10 | Well I suppose yeah cos they could set on him on his own |
| 11 | This revolutionary conclusion , which is perhaps the most important for the general reader of The Origin , is one easily supported by modern anthropologists although they might disagree with him about what exactly will happen when the change comes or even whether this kind of change can be predicted . |
| 12 | To get the best out of the situation both sides must try to understand how the other man goes about his work , what his problems are and how you can best communicate with him to your own advantage . |
| 13 | Doctors say Jonathan will have a normal life-span and she is worried for the future and what will happen to him after her death . |
| 14 | Zoë Fairbairns says , ‘ Every reader will respond to him in their own way . |
| 15 | You can explain to him about your system and he 'll put the books back where he found them . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I can cope with him on my own now . |
| 17 | He did n't half go into him with his stick . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But I can write to him in his capacity as Robert Atkins ' Parliamentary Private Secretary . |
| 20 | ‘ Maybe the pressure will get to him like it did eventually to me . |
| 21 | They could also get at him through his wife and children , as the threatening phone calls had made plain . |
| 22 | But Changez looked so alone — and close up I could see bits of bristle sticking out of his badly shaved face — that even I could n't laugh at him in my usual way . |
| 23 | ‘ Did you talk to him about what happened at your father 's tomb ? ’ |
| 24 | Could you sit down and talk to him about your favourite band ? |
| 25 | I wonder if I should talk to him about it ? |
| 26 | I wo n't talk to him about it either . |
| 27 | It eventually reached the point when one of us would simply talk to him about anything and everything until he 'd break and say , ‘ OK , you want me to talk . |
| 28 | If he 's still here , would you go and talk to him for me , just casually , find out where he comes from . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ You can talk to him for me , my dear . |
| 30 | My father feared my mother as much as I did and wished me to please and agree with her always , for when I did not she would complain to him of my behaviour and I suspected that when this happened his new wife would complain in her turn that he paid too much attention to us and too little to her and her own children . |