Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] him the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was aware that I had disliked him the day before and seemed anxious to make me change my opinion . |
| 2 | He took her hand , linking his long , hard fingers between hers , joining them in a physical as well as a mental bond , and suddenly Fran knew that she wanted to tell him the one thing that had fashioned her into the woman she was . |
| 3 | ‘ I seem to remember that he never stopped talking and I had given him the cold fish eye . ’ |
| 4 | He laughed softly , with pleasure , as if I had fed him the right cue . |
| 5 | At this point the GP had felt that she could no longer help him , and she had given him the number of a marital counsellor . |
| 6 | Then her father returned , and she had to tell him the story all over again . |
| 7 | Travis could n't have looked more sceptical if she 'd told him the world was flat after all . |
| 8 | If they did report a rape and they 'd told him the woman opposite , at the top last night er , next week come back . |
| 9 | She did n't want Georg back but she wanted to hurt him the way Gesner had hurt her . |
| 10 | But they 'd seen him the moment he saw them , so he kept on walking towards them . |
| 11 | And while she longed to tell him the truth , she dared not do so . |
| 12 | ‘ Who is he ? ’ he kept repeating over and over again , stony-faced and disbelieving even when I had told him the truth . |
| 13 | , I remember right from when he was a baby as I went to see him the day his mum brought him home . |
| 14 | She had been right when she 'd called him the devil , because he was — but oh , how she wished she did n't find him so incredibly attractive . |
| 15 | This did indeed occur , for when she went to embrace him the bodies of the lover and the beloved merged forever , becoming a double-sexed being — a youth with the breasts of a woman . |
| 16 | It could have been the second , but he had swallowed his pride when they had shown him the room that was allocated him . |
| 17 | Johnny was surely the " Billy Bishop Canadian " of World War 2 : only the war ending when it did denied him the highest award . |