Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] him " in BNC.

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1 I keep my distance and do not look at him , though from the comer of my eye I can see him so smartly attired , decked out in scarves and jumpers , set to brace the cold and the street at any hour .
2 If one gets in my way I will put him to sleep . ’
3 ‘ If everybody plays their part we can keep him out ’ Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke said .
4 If he let Firelight out of her box she would follow him around like a dog .
5 JOHN MORRIS , Derbyshire 's 28-year-old vice-captain , has ended speculation about his cricketing future by signing a two-year extension to his contract which will keep him at the Recreation Ground until 1996 .
6 Did you say he was in North Africa ? if we ca n't do anything about his legs we 'll give him a new head when he gets back .
7 In terms of motivating those around him Daley has no peer , and if when he finally hangs up his spikes they can convince him to go into coaching , he will be sensational .
8 Folly found herself curiously reluctant to look up , as if by meeting his eye she might give him back the power he held over her .
9 But his conscience it may fail him and his heart it may give way ,
10 You can not attack an ‘ enemy ’ unless you know where in his environment you can find him at any given time , and the best techniques , properly applied , are needed to bring about his downfall .
11 The defendant in Allen v. Simmons ( 1978 Q.B.D. ) offered just one set of glasses and asked his audience who would pay him 30 pence for the set .
12 From his expression anyone would think him totally appalled at the accusation of kindness .
13 In November 1959 he found himself back in Montreal , ‘ to renew his neurotic affiliations ’ as he was to repeat endlessly to journalists ; meeting his friends and family , sometimes bumping into his uncles who would take him for expensive meals at top restaurants — such as the Ritz — and hotels ; and generally awakening and reawakening those impulses and memories which would fire his imagination and energise his mind for months to come .
14 MacDonald spoke of his difficulties with characteristic self-pity , but said he would not resign , but go on with those of his colleagues who would follow him " .
15 You will be producing antibodies in your milk which will protect him or her .
16 He might decide to cross-examine both of us in an attempt to detect inconsistencies in our replies , or hope for some slip-up on our part which might enable him to make the correct identification .
17 Do you have any more of your cake you could give him ? ’
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