Example sentences of "him [subord] he [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked him if he had the right number ? |
| 2 | ‘ Ask him if he understands the charge fully . ’ |
| 3 | Some days he would follow a man , a man he 'd just seen in the street , for minutes or for hours , thinking he would go up to him and ask him if he knew the way . |
| 4 | Burying her face in Luke 's chest to hide her blushes , Perdita asked him if he knew the Spanish for Super Tampax , and if they could stop for some on the way . |
| 5 | They asked him if he knew the answer , for if he did not how would they ever find out ? |
| 6 | Charles would capture one of the boys and only release him if he said the magic word . |
| 7 | I asked him if he considered the fusion tag to still be relevant … |
| 8 | " Ask him if he knows the magic words ! |
| 9 | You think the same thing could happen to him if he pursues the story ? ’ |
| 10 | Helen watched him until he rounded the corner , then walked Nicola the ten or so yards along the street that took them to the entrance to her building . |
| 11 | He did not look behind him until he reached the corner . |
| 12 | I watched him until he turned the corner . |
| 13 | People knew of him because he took the pictures of more collective Sheringham life — weddings , school celebrations . |
| 14 | ‘ We destroyed him because he betrayed The Law ! ’ said Hasan , in the kind of voice that suggested Hasan the Second , the Twenty-third Imam of the Nizari Ismailis , had only just popped out of the room for a cup of coffee instead of being stabbed nearly a thousand years ago . |
| 15 | But for a long time all the local shop-boys had insulted him because he wore the uniform of a charity-boy . |
| 16 | But , despite capitulating to the spinner himself , Windies skipper Richie Richardson said : ‘ You 've got to give him credit to him because he got the result but he 's not a threat really . |
| 17 | But home to London , where a newsvendor would not serve him till he turned the camera away , was pretty anticlimactic too . |
| 18 | They were unlikely to be in real danger , the Whistler stalked at night , not in broad daylight , and no vehicle had passed him since he left the coastal road . |
| 19 | Unbeaten all year and even expected to win by his rivals , the 26-year-old had looked odds-on to win the senior world title which British athletics had been expecting of him since he won the junior crown in 1986 . |
| 20 | As they neared the ruins of Arghuri , the Kurd indicated that Miss Logan was to wait for him while he investigated the village . |
| 21 | I should hev let him while he had the maggot in him . ’ |
| 22 | Lumberjack lay panting in the dirt beside him while he changed the oil , checked the tyre-pressures , adjusted the tension of the chain . |
| 23 | THE wife of killer Michael Sams has called him a ‘ lying bastard ’ and said she was divorcing him after he revealed the full extent of his crimes . |
| 24 | The words , both exclamation and prayer , were forced out of him as he reached the bend in the road and came on the village of Granard . |
| 25 | Lewis was waiting for him as he reached the road again . |
| 26 | The bus had passed him as he left the house ; there was n't another for twenty minutes and no time to wait , only run , heading for Nails 's house , praying he would be there . |
| 27 | ‘ He 's such a jerk , ’ she remarked , remembering him as he left the breakfast table clad in the dark , light-weight suit which hung uneasily between an older idea of what was appropriate to the businessman and the current notion that , since it was no longer altogether cool to be a businessman , the person in the fast lane to wealth should appear relaxed and unconstrained . |
| 28 | She shuffled after him as he left the house , almost too exhausted now to put one foot in front of the other . |
| 29 | He ran quickly out of the laboratory , and I watched him as he left the island in his boat and sailed away across the sea . |
| 30 | Colonel Lomax contrived to bump into him as he left the booth . |