Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | That would be loss enough if I watched him go with only longing for him in my heart but there is instead a bitterness because he is happy to go life there being preferable to here where there is only his tired wife for company . |
| 2 | K has literally just rung over the moon that I had fixed this as her mother is very fond of David and has known him for years — and it is fitting that widow of first Prof of CEGS ( as above ) be included — her dad built up the department enormously and I knew him through European seminars etc via Law Society with and others including who is a Heriot Row neighbour . |
| 3 | Mr Brownlow explained that he had run after the boy only because he saw him running away . |
| 4 | I said that he could try to put the cube together and I left him with the pieces while I went to fetch some paper . |
| 5 | And of course everyone knew all about it , just as they knew that the Mackays , poor souls , had done everything they could for the boy ever since they took him in for adoption . ’ |
| 6 | Not so , says Mr Crust : ‘ Even in this environment , if your house is alight you want a fireman there and you want him there in a reasonable length of time . ’ |
| 7 | The man who gives a boat party knows in his heart that his friends like his yacht more than they like him : he is lonely and restless in their company . |
| 8 | There was no kind of animosity at all because we are still friends with him but it was just that his presence did n't do anything dramatic for the group creatively so we asked him to go . ’ |
| 9 | She had come to terms with Newley 's affair with Arabella ; she believed that she had her husband precisely where she wanted him . |
| 10 | ‘ He 's been a perfect gentleman ever since I met him . |
| 11 | In which case he would surface again when it suited him . |
| 12 | who comes two years later when he has to do the same price again and it costs him money or her . |
| 13 | ‘ Tony was thinking of packing it in over a month ago but I told him to go away and talk it over with his family first . |
| 14 | Perhaps he is used to eating the grass sometimes while we brush him . |
| 15 | Just then Mum , half-dressed , came into the room , but Dad had hardly got a word out before she cut him off . |
| 16 | Sometimes he helped along this impression of participation by opening his mouth and shovelling his chin forward until someone interrupted him . |
| 17 | She was surprised to discover he was perfectly adept as a painter and decorator — though why she should be surprised she did n't really know , she reflected a touch grouchily as she watched him work . |
| 18 | He gives back a lot more than we give him . |
| 19 | I 'm still puzzled by the incident and the local keeper could offer no likely explanation either when I told him . |
| 20 | ‘ It sounds as if she wanted this house more than she wanted him , ’ Lucy mused , knowing that if she herself loved a man she 'd be happy to live in any humble abode . |
| 21 | But I feel I should return just a moment to the matter of my father ; for it strikes me I may have given the impression earlier that I treated him rather bluntly over his declining abilities . |
| 22 | How long were you seeing your boyfriend then before you married him ? |