Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] him [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made him take an oath |
| 2 | I remember before he became Prime Minister he was in charge of the Conservative re-think where I helped him do a lot of that work and I think he enjoyed that very much . |
| 3 | I told him stealing a car would n't solve anything and he agreed to park the car . |
| 4 | I told him to take a miss on the instruction part . |
| 5 | ‘ I told him to take a break and have a rethink about the rest of the meeting . ’ |
| 6 | so I told him to buy a couple of pies and some biscuits while I went to phone someone . |
| 7 | Anyway , I imagined him waving a wand , and the world came into existence . |
| 8 | I challenged him to produce a receipt . |
| 9 | Only I heard him crying a bit lately at night time . |
| 10 | I saw him doing a side shuffle to the main entrance as we all trooped along here . |
| 11 | I saw him take a look at the boat-house first , then , when I suppose he saw you were n't home , he went up towards the house , and after a bit he came back with a bag , you know , like Santa Claus , slung over his shoulder . |
| 12 | He ignored the mop , just staring at me , and I saw him take a breath ready to defy me so I spoke before he could . |
| 13 | I can give evidence that I s right for , say , we 'll go back to his , his er idea , suspicion of murder , I can say I saw him take a hammer and whack him , split his head open , he dropped down dead . |
| 14 | ’ Mechanically propelled vehicles can be proved by a phrase in a witness statement to the effect ‘ I saw him driving a Jaguar saloon motor car , registered number … ‘ |
| 15 | I saw him like a father figure really . |
| 16 | I thought this was quite early in the case for an aggravation , so I had him take a dose every other day after diluting the remedy in a second glass of water . |
| 17 | In Joan Wake 's book The Brudenells of Deene one reads that ‘ not the least of John , Duke of Montagu 's many attractive qualities was a love for animals , which led him to maintain a hospital for sick dogs at his house in Ditton Park in Buckinghamshire ’ . |
| 18 | He pulled on a pair of folding sunglasses ( the sort you pay an extra load for to have ‘ Porsche ’ stamped across your field of vision ) as he made for the driver 's door , but even with them and the soft brown leather blouson jacket , which made him look a bit like an off-duty copper ( they get them cheap down Brick Lane ) , I still recognized him . |
| 19 | Aspects which made him remember an Olvia and mourn the death of that comparative stranger . |
| 20 | Aston Villa in 1912 , the player claimed damages for loss of employment , because the club had put ‘ too high ’ a transfer fee on him which prevented him taking an offer from another club . |
| 21 | They now provided Sukarno with a vehicle for polemic and controversy which enabled him to regain a place in the public eye . |
| 22 | In 1987 the new vice-president won a travel award from the US Department of Agriculture to the USA which enabled him to spend a month studying cereal production , the uses of cereals and the way in which arable farming is supported . |
| 23 | He did not hit a crisp drive but recovered with an excellent three wood which enabled him to secure a birdie four to Frost 's par . |
| 24 | The station which persuaded him to make a comeback says it ca n't believe its luck . |
| 25 | Now 31 , Foster is fortunate to be playing cricket at all after several knee operations , the most recent of which forced him to miss a slice of last season and the start of The possibility of his breaking down at any time can not be ignored and neither can his undistinguished international record at Lord 's . |
| 26 | It was in honour of that adventure which left him facing a crown court appearance on Monday that Whitby Folk Club held the shanty event last week . |
| 27 | By looking for faults in his behaviour , by constantly diminishing him with little criticisms — he neglected their boy ( at school in Randung ) , he was cold , he was selfish , he was an inadequate and clumsy lover ( did she dare ) , he never listened to other people , he had no sense of direction because he was always getting her lost in foreign capitals — she made him feel a kind of leper , different from and inferior to the run of men . |
| 28 | He had first met her in 1938 , when she invited him to give a reading at the Student Movement House of which she was Warden . |
| 29 | The direction of his career , however , was finally determined by Sonia Orwell who helped him obtain a job with the World Bank in Washington . |
| 30 | He has not only tarnished his relationship with Leeds United Football Club ( the club that he owes everything to including his 2.75M price tag ) , he also shit on the manager and those players who are left at the club , who helped him win a championship medal . |