Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | A friend of his who was a district nurse in the area where he lived once spotted him chatting to a shopkeeper in his usual congenial fashion . |
| 2 | For the most part , however , he found more to preoccupy him outside France ( where he feared the imminent outbreak of a global conflict ) than inside . |
| 3 | ‘ He has n't seen him . |
| 4 | He was quite categorical ; Passmore was there on Friday evening from about seven until closing time , but he had n't seen him for several weeks before then and he has n't seen him since . ’ |
| 5 | And this is God 's purpose , he is given the Holy Spirit and he has not withdrawn him . |
| 6 | The proposal of the Leader of the Opposition to spend the money that is now spent on British farmers on farmers in southern Europe is something about which every farmer should know — unless the Opposition spokesman will advise him differently and tell the House when he has so advised him . |
| 7 | He has given him , and he has never withdrawn him ! |
| 8 | Although the image of the Trinity is distorted , its powers are not destroyed and this is the activity of God in the soul — the ability to understand what could be , and to desire it : But it is a question of " so near and yet so far " as Hilton adds that man is not near Christ or in him until he has actually found him . |
| 9 | The treatment he received there made him increasingly spastic . |
| 10 | He 'd even wanted him to . |
| 11 | Gurder looked more unhappy than he 'd ever seen him . |
| 12 | And er he had a partner , an equal partner who I do n't know if he 'd ever met him , I think he had . |
| 13 | Chief Inspector Kuhlmann put down the phone and looked at Kurt Meyer as though he 'd never seen him before . |
| 14 | Sam was glad that he 'd never invited him to share Evelyn 's secrets . |
| 15 | Yanto grinned and pointed it out to Billy as he came around to join him ‘ I 've found him , ’ he said quietly , ‘ and you must admit he is very hygienic . ’ |
| 16 | Llewelyn turned from the harness that was being checked out of the armoury , and looked at his foster-son for a moment from so far away and by so dazzling a light that he seemed hardly to know him . |
| 17 | Almost every afternoon when Charlie was at school he turned up to take him to the studio to rehearse with his band . |
| 18 | And then we went , and that Sheik Mohammed tha that owned her , he turned round give him fifty thousand pound . |
| 19 | A SOLICITOR 'S clerk stole a wig from a barrister he claimed racially insulted him , the Old Bailey heard yesterday . |
| 20 | The man he relied on to keep him in power . ’ |
| 21 | And his staff at all the Ministries he worked in adored him . |
| 22 | Because I felt that John would be relying on the people he loved not to forget him , I kept it . |
| 23 | What he saw there made him groan again . |
| 24 | In the following sentence , the effect introduced by the use of the to infinitive is even more striking : ( 190 ) … what he saw there made him falter and repeat himself and then suddenly to explode into a cry . |
| 25 | The old keeper he knew how to treat him and he was on alright in about a month . |
| 26 | He paused , detecting in his voice the first trace of that reedy mixture of sarcasm and pomposity which he knew occasionally affected him and to which he was morbidly sensitive . |
| 27 | According to Mrs Baldwin , whose account was more immediate , the words were : ‘ Sir , this is a very grave decision and I am deeply grieved ’ ; but the significant difference is that she adds : ‘ and he went on to tell him that according to some legal opinion the divorce ought not to have been granted , that there were certain aspects of it that in any ordinary case would not have gone through . ’ |
| 28 | Dennis Clark yesterday told John Turner , 30 , that society would be outraged if he did not send him to prison . |
| 29 | But he did not know him , and would not have cared too greatly if he had . |
| 30 | He did not qualify him for income support , he supported him on to the back of his ass , he took him to the inn . |