Example sentences of "to [pron] [coord] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was convinced her 18-year-old son 's pop dreams would come to nothing and pressured him to accept a job offer from a bank . |
| 2 | She put her face to his and kissed him . |
| 3 | I found myself talking to someone and watching him go to sleep on his feet . |
| 4 | To which and looking him straight in the face , she had answered , ‘ Do n't count on it , ever . ’ |
| 5 | She took him to herself and loved him in the mystical , supreme way she believed her mother had loved her father ; she gave him everything — her innocence , her youth , her maidenhead . |
| 6 | There is no easy answer , for the Spirit blows where he wills , and man can neither prescribe to him nor control him . |
| 7 | ‘ Do you wish to speak to him or see him ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ If that 's Penry tell him I do n't want to speak to him or see him again . |
| 9 | Only in conversa only verbally , I have n't written to him and told him . |
| 10 | The defendants wrote to him and told him that they had decided to pay him a pension of £200 a year and that he was at liberty to enter into any other employment or enter any business , ‘ except in the wool trade . ’ |
| 11 | For a moment she almost lied to him and told him he had brought her nothing . |
| 12 | Even there it would seem that he was known because a woman came to him and asked him to drive out an unclean spirit from her daughter . |
| 13 | I ran across to him and asked him where the hell Nicola was . |
| 14 | ‘ I want to know if you ever wrote to him and asked him to meet you . ’ |
| 15 | As on every night , she went up to him and kissed him on the lips . |
| 16 | Whatever the risk , she must go to him and tell him to go back . |
| 17 | " Well tell him , girl , write to him and tell him " he exclaimed , his moustache bristling . |
| 18 | A sergeant appears from what a plate beside the door indicates is the dentist 's and I go up to him and tell him my name and that I 've been told to report my movements by Detective Inspector McDunn . |
| 19 | Sergeant Flavell sounds a little odd when I talk to him and tell him I 've been to Jersey for the day but I 'm on my way back to Edinburgh . |
| 20 | At 10 o'clock , as Jackson walked past Sauchiehall Street Station , a stranger spoke to him and led him away . |
| 21 | Listen well when he tells us what happened out there to him and respect him for what he has done , and honour him , for at least he has given each of us hope and proof that escape is possible . ’ |
| 22 | She had entered into the union for her own reasons and she had taken her marriage vows with no thoughts other than to be a dutiful wife to him and to give him the happiness he deserved . |
| 23 | In these lines , Brutus is saying that the only way to stop Caesar becoming emperor is to kill him , and although he has no personal grievances against Caesar ( Caesar is kind to him and favours him ) , it would be bad for the people of Rome ( ‘ the general ’ ) if he were to be crowned . |
| 24 | After the funeral was over and the bereaved student returned to college , instead of going up to him and holding him — or even just politely commiserating with him — most students ignored him . |
| 25 | Once clear of the cloud , she had handed over the controls to him and taught him how to use the power and propeller pitch levers , how to bank the plane sharply , how to descend and climb with power and nose attitude . |
| 26 | But the farmer was kind to him and taught him a lot . |
| 27 | He had a nice temperament and you could go up to him and stroke him without fear . |
| 28 | They did a number of very unpleasant things to him and left him , dazed and confused , at New Street station at two in the morning . |
| 29 | If you put him to bed and he cries , check on him every few minutes , reassuring him you 're there by talking to him and stroking him before leaving the room . |
| 30 | She came down to him and made him a hot drink and felt his forehead which was burning hot and covered in drops of sweat . |