Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No wonder he clammed up whenever I asked him about his childhood . |
| 2 | That was Michael Willis 's line whenever I told him about some fresh disaster in the surf . |
| 3 | Whenever I meet him in the village , ’ he said bitterly , ‘ which is not very often , I 'm glad to say , he walks right past me without even raisin' his cap in respect … ’ |
| 4 | ‘ But whenever we left him in his cot and then went back to him , we 'd notice that he 'd made terrible scratches on his face with his fingernails and he would rip the backs of his legs with his toes . |
| 5 | That 's how she met him at relatives party . |
| 6 | It was strange how she loved him for that business with Tommaso so long ago , how she had such a feeling for the intricate conventions of the old code , and saw him as a man of honour , a duellist . |
| 7 | Buttoned up and locked in was how she described him to herself . |
| 8 | Oh , how she wanted him to . |
| 9 | He had his bloody he had his cushion and he had his bloody , you know that one how we got him with his head on his cushion like that ? |
| 10 | I think sometimes I ca n't help but think it 's how they made him in a way , you know , like I , you , sometimes your , I think you should sit down and play with something , but he wo n't sit quiet and amuse himself |
| 11 | ( Otto once told me some unbelievably shocking — to me — tales about Jean-Claude and American soldiers , and how they paid him in cigarettes and chewing-gum . |
| 12 | ‘ Sometimes when I take him to the local toddler group and watch him playing with the other children , I think it would be great if he could just feel the sand in the sandpit between his toes and know what it 's like to get his hands all messed up with play dough or paint — the things other children take for granted . ’ |
| 13 | As Brian Clough told me when I met him on the top of the Little Elm bus earlier this season — we were both going to check out Little Elm Intaflora 's young Dutch forward , Kylie Van Der Graaf — ‘ Sadly , young man , football is like a football . ’ |
| 14 | These things I gathered from what Dorothy 's husband Leo told me when I met him in the chemist 's shop one day . |
| 15 | Dury , however , is a theatrical voice to be taken rather more seriously , as I discovered when I met him in his current lodgings , adjacent to the Swan Theatre . |
| 16 | One day when I saw him in the village , he said , ‘ I hear I 've got a son , Ellen , whose name 's Linton ! |
| 17 | I was window-shopping across the road at Tower Records ( good selection , but top price ) when I saw him in the reflection . |
| 18 | I realized what a marvellous actor he was when I saw him in this and only wished that he had n't relied so much on the funny voices and hidden behind the easier way out of doing the characters that he could do so easily — and it was easy for him . |
| 19 | ‘ The closest I ever got to any man was when I had him in the sights of the rifle and I never missed . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Well , here we are , ’ Andy says , sitting forward and slapping his hands on his knees , then taking the J when I tap him on the elbow . |
| 21 | ‘ Twenty-four years old he was when I found him in the provost 's prison in Paris , and paid his fine to get him for my own , him and that foster-brother of his whom you know well . ’ |
| 22 | I handed it to a former flight engineer of 213 when I visited him in Toronto some years ago . |
| 23 | ‘ One of them started crying yesterday , when I hit him with my stick . |
| 24 | I was afraid long ago , when I hit him in the mouth with that heavy glove , that I might kill him one day . |
| 25 | I do n't know then , I ca n't think where I know him from , . |
| 26 | The man 's cheek is cut from where I caught him with the chain . |
| 27 | That is why I took him for an agent . |
| 28 | I have a feeling its not too different from how Leeds play now , that s why I see him as an excellent ( joint ? ) |
| 29 | Against her creamy paleness his hand was a thin brown intruder , and he knew there were times when she despised him for his swarthy colouring . |
| 30 | Jimmy last met the Queen in 1979 when she presented him with the OBE. |