Example sentences of "him [adv] [prep] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | Raymond does n't ask much from me , and I ask nothing from him , so yesterday puts him entirely in my debt . |
| 2 | I pulled the little guy from my pocket and set him down on my desk . |
| 3 | He seemed to know so much about fighting that I was very surprised when I knocked him down with my first hit , and then again with my second . |
| 4 | I never saw him in his blood-stained overalls , but I always imagined him thus in my mind . |
| 5 | I followed him through to my room , where he bent to light the lamp . |
| 6 | ‘ Whether he knows or not , however , keep him away from my sister . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I wanted to look pale and interesting and bowl him over with my sparkling wit ! ’ |
| 8 | I 'll leave him promptly upon my return to England . |
| 9 | Mrs Phillips said today : ‘ I was bringing him home from my daughter 's house when he got out of his cage . |
| 10 | I shut him up in my cellar with all he needed for painting and a bottle of cognac , and my maid , who was a very pretty girl , served as his model . |
| 11 | One of my friends was at Sherborne and speaks very posh — I took him back to my place for a drink one day and my dad was going , ‘ Dennis , listen to Tim , listen — go on , talk , say something ’ and my friend says , ‘ Well I do n't know what to say really , Mr Waterman , ’ and my dad says to me , ‘ Why do n't you talk like that , you could make a fortune . ’ |
| 12 | After his death , I learnt not to shut him out of my life and now I feel a comforting sense of continuity when I go through the boxes and find little notes by him which I have never seen before . |
| 13 | I was n't going to show him I would n't let him out of my sight . |
| 14 | Just keep him out of my hair . |
| 15 | I wished I had n't come , I wished I 'd cut him out of my life . |
| 16 | Take him out of my sight . ’ |
| 17 | I 'd welcome it too — get him out of my hair for a bit . ’ |
| 18 | Whenever you 've seen Rob in my office you 've taken good care to get him out of my clutches very smartly , on the flimsiest of pretexts . |
| 19 | ‘ You can push him out of my life , ’ she said angrily . |
| 20 | ‘ But you ca n't take him out of my head ! ’ |
| 21 | Jimmy says , ‘ I 've never seen him before in my life . ’ |
| 22 | I had never seen him before in my life . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've never seen him before in my life , ’ I said . |
| 24 | I 'd never seen him before in my life ! |
| 25 | Similarly , it may take no more than a momentary pang of empathetic distress to convince me that if I could become as aware from the sufferer 's viewpoint as from my own I would be spontaneously moved to help him even to my own cost . |
| 26 | And my goal was to bring him around to my way of thinking ; there 's no question that I stopped fooling around when he agreed with me . |
| 27 | Looking down at him there on my English grass , under my English sun , I knew he was pretending a tie-dyed sky , glass sea , breeze in a fast boat . |
| 28 | I moved here to Blackburn wi' my Arthur in ‘ thirty-seven , and I never saw him again to my knowledge . |
| 29 | Then sometimes I had some news of him too through my acquaintance , Jozef Taczek . ’ |