Example sentences of "you [vb past] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 You met him at the Kremlin .
2 You got him on the C B or something dad says and er he says she wo n't be up cos got ta take her to the doctors or something
3 You rode him like a real jockey , ’ Nails said .
4 You passed him on the way in . ’
5 ‘ I know you and Niall did n't exactly get off to a good start , but if it 's any consolation you caught him at a bad time .
6 ‘ I heard about Froggy , ’ he said , ‘ and that you found him with the shaft of a golf club stuck through his gullet , ’ he finished brightly .
7 You dropped him for the Prime Minister . ’
8 ‘ He feels as if you played him for a fool .
9 Gazzer seemed to be talking to himself , not to Marie but , suddenly , he looked straight into her face and said : ‘ Did you tell him where she lived , like you told him about the money ? ’
10 You killed him in the raid on the armoured van .
11 Mr Denny said to the PC : ‘ You threatened him with a broken cider bottle .
12 You warned him of the perils , of course ? ’
13 I expect that 's what he thought he was going to when you grabbed him at the end of the war .
14 Say , ‘ You lost him at an early age , did n't you ? ’ and I 'll say , ‘ Lost him ?
15 Say you lost him in the crowd .
16 You knew him round the halls , did n't you ? ’
17 ‘ You might cook him a wonderful pie and then you 'd find he 'd given it to a drunken beggar , and no matter how kind you thought him after a while you 'd want to kill him .
18 You saw him for the last time in 1959 .
19 ‘ Was he always alone when you saw him at the house ? ’
20 I thought you said you saw him at the bus station this morning .
21 You saw him in the early thirties ?
22 " It seems you went to see your friend Joseph Hyde first , " she said softly , very softly , " and then , having changed your clothes , you accompanied him to a public house called the Queen Victoria where you attended a secret meeting of the Irish Republican Brotherhood , of which apparently , you have been a member for some two years . "
23 You presented him with a fait accompli ? ’
24 ’ I just get guys saying , ’ Hey man , I love that film where you bit that guys neck and then you shot him in the head and his brains went spilling all over your face .
25 You had him at the Lord Howe , that 's the last I know .
26 It does n't seem that long since you had him as a puppy
27 You had him in the palm of your hand and let him escape .
28 but then you left him for an American carpenter .
29 He emerged from the frostbitten earth as mysteriously and magically as the transitory rare flowers ; and he continued to move mysteriously — you left him under a coat and he reappeared in a drawer — all that winter .
30 ‘ So you married him in the end , did you ? ’
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