Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [pers pn] [verb] him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His appearance in the Toyota World Match Play at Wentworth in October was his 17th in succession and it gave him the chance of winning the title for a record sixth time . |
| 2 | Willie tapped Zach 's shoulder but he had already read his mind and he handed him a couple . |
| 3 | He was well placed in the cotton industry and it gave him a generous income ; therefore it had to take precedence , but the monotony of arriving at the same place at the same time every day now bored him as much as had the mechanical frenzy of the bobbins when he arrived . |
| 4 | We stroll arm in arm to the nearest pub and I buy him a freedom drink and lunch ; a pint of stout and a Ploughman 's . |
| 5 | Two more of the nave lights had been switched on but the church was still dim compared with the harsh glare of the arc lights trained on the scene and it took him a minute to locate Father Barnes , a dark shape at the end of the first row of chairs under the pulpit . |
| 6 | The Sheriff asked me the same question and I gave him the same answer as I have you . ’ |
| 7 | At the door he turned and gave me a last despairing look and I saw him no more . |
| 8 | I , I can remember all the activity and er when it was erected there was a fella from the First World War , he lost a leg in the war and he was in charge of the billiards room and the tables , when they built the club itself the front part used to be devoted to card games and then they installed a billiards hall and the tables and as I say a chap named he used to live in Street , but he was , a lost a leg during the war and they found him the job of looking after the tables and marking |
| 9 | He was a gentleman doing his job and I bore him no malice . |
| 10 | That gained her immediate attention and she gave him a shocked look . |
| 11 | Micky Danby is a pratt and I owe him a few scores meself . ’ |
| 12 | a Chinese girl she 's living in it , in a kind of a real dive of loft thing to do her art and she gives him the odd painting instead of paying rent . |
| 13 | ‘ He called me a name and I called him a name , ’ said Ditka . |
| 14 | He 's declaring that he 's using a taxi and it costs him a hundred and sixty pound a month , every day back and forwards to work , well everyone knows that 's a lie cos she takes him to work |
| 15 | Right so , someone on a bike , you 've got a mate on a pushbike and you 're starting a race and you give him a shove . |
| 16 | So , we toast the railway station and I tell him the only Czech joke I know . |
| 17 | He came to spend the night , by agreement , twice a week and she saw him every day but there was no denying that he seemed a visitor and never a member of her household . |
| 18 | Endill was thrown to the ground and it took him a few minutes to realise what had happened . |
| 19 | He sank into a fireside chair and I poured him a small medicinal quart of Absinthe to steady his nerves . |
| 20 | He was going out with a silly cow of an art student and she lent him the book . |
| 21 | I worked in up there about nineteen fifty or fifty one when I had a dispute with the manager and I gave him a week 's notice . |
| 22 | He gives you an ice cream and you give him a kiss " , that sort of thing . |
| 23 | I found some brandy and it steadied him a bit … and then he told me he 'd been to Angy 's flat and found her dead . ’ |
| 24 | That gave Webb an easy catch and it gave him the time to see that Bath would have a man over if he ran the ball to the left . |
| 25 | He works on our local trading estate and I see him every day after school and at weekends . |