Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] him [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said our flight had been delayed and he 'd spent the time in the bar , and then added , rather unconvincingly , that some woman had insisted on ‘ plying Phaeton with liquor ’ as he put it , but there was a hollowness in the way he said it , and I do n't think either Gill or I believed him for a moment . |
| 2 | Send an emissary , or yourself approach him under a flag of truce . |
| 3 | He is now 7″ long , and I transferred him to a 4ft tank . |
| 4 | So I said OK , and I gave him a real fancy one — it was like topiary , and I left him with a rude word on the back of his head . |
| 5 | I lived with my husband for er , three and a half years , and I knew him for a good number of years before then , so we made a joint decision after that period of time that we were , wanted to commit ourselves |
| 6 | I did not think of following him , my feet seemed rooted to the sandy path and I saw him through a mist of tears as he appeared to melt through the door , which closed behind him . |
| 7 | And I saw him in a month , and he took the bandage off and me arm flopped of course . |
| 8 | Finally , one day a boy called Charlie bawled out , ‘ Nigger ! ’ at me and I chased him in a fury . |
| 9 | Gareth took a step or two after them and I called him in an explosive croak , ‘ Gareth , ’ and he stopped and turned immediately and came back , bending down . |
| 10 | I thought he played well against England last week and I see him as a valuable member of our squad . ’ |
| 11 | You see a name come up on the leaderboard , then it might disappear and you think to yourself , ‘ I wonder what happened to him ? ’ , and you forget him after a while . |
| 12 | One of the men who most attracts him , Mubarak , is also one whose sexuality is most self-conscious , withdrawn , and complicated ; Mubarak 's masculinity is itself strung out across difference : he is a Sudanese African in Asia , and fighting for a people whom he does not understand and who regard him with a racist indifference ( pp. 194 — 5 ) ; he speaks perfect French , but with a Parisian urban working-class accent . |
| 13 | And she left him with a quick glance from her eyes , dark as an otter 's pelt , and a smile that was like a gift . |
| 14 | When they reached the hotel , he walked with her to her room , and she thanked him in a rather stilted voice for a very pleasant evening . |
| 15 | But she has grown up strangely , and she treats him with a cold formality , calling him ‘ Sir ’ but correcting him almost every time he speaks . |
| 16 | Her face closed in and she eyed him with a return of the defiance and challenge he had seen in her eyes at first . |
| 17 | He rose and staggered out and we followed him into a stinking alleyway a short distance from the tavern . |
| 18 | It really does come down to , I do n't know , I mean , every year we play it very honestly and very straight , and we push him in a position where next year , if there is a next year , I think the last time that we played it straight we got clobbered , so let's pay a little bit less , and keep a bit back for when they come round a second time round . |
| 19 | He opened the door by his desk , and they followed him into a large room filled with dark , solid furniture . |
| 20 | come Saturday they 'd rearranged the whole ward and they put him on a W R V S air bed , he were in heaven on this bed , I said why the fuck could n't you have done that earlier ? |
| 21 | They got him in the boat and they he had to lie down in the bottom of the boat and they and they covered him with a tarpaulin . |
| 22 | Few months down the line , and he sells him at a loss . |
| 23 | He watched her eyes fire with the old , familiar irony , and it hurt him like a blade . |
| 24 | And then he turned over and saw the empty crumpled pillow beside him , and it hit him in a great wave . |
| 25 | Mills Roberts was a stickler for discipline but everyone recognised him as a good soldier and therefore , for all his shouting , he was a popular figure . |
| 26 | Mr Multhrop bustled forward , but someone forestalled him with a glad cry . |
| 27 | He caught them and tried to hold her still but she fought him like a spitting cat . |
| 28 | He tried to kiss her , but she evaded him in a half-angry , half-flirtatious way , so they were in the middle of a clumsy clinch when Lucaroni walked in . |
| 29 | ’ Bramble began , but she silenced him with a glare from the astonishing blue eyes . |
| 30 | Many aspects of his analysis were similar to those advanced by Blauner , but they led him to an opposite conclusion . |