Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] [pron] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I do n't where I got I gave him quite a good sermon which I thought was y know quite erm to try and help the situation and he said I 'd give them er my conditions . |
| 2 | What I did n't mention to him was Gilbert 's phone call where he said she rang him on Saturday evening and asked him about a box . ’ |
| 3 | Owen knew his parents had been having aromatherapy massage , so I think it made him feel grown-up and important . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm just getting myself back on track , building myself up mentally , physically and emotionally , so I need somebody like him organizing my life , keeping the diary , ’ Justin says of Dom . |
| 5 | Well , he was certainly in a good mood , and no sign so far as she could see that he had been drinking what Matey called ‘ his nasty whisky ’ , so she prepared herself to play him . |
| 6 | My dad did n't like to beat me , so he made me join him . ’ |
| 7 | Yet if I say I love him , she thought , watching his capable hands on the wheel , I may frighten him away . |
| 8 | If I see you stab him with a felt tip . |
| 9 | I do n't know if I want him to find him — it — or not . |
| 10 | Mind you if she thinks she likes him then go for it ! |
| 11 | She could n't finish because that would be pushy if she admitted she expected him to ask her to stay with him as he had done once before . |
| 12 | If she found herself liking him — and several times during the course of the afternoon 's decorating she had come perilously close — she could never hope to keep up her side of the battle to keep the club . |
| 13 | My Pop came to me with an old Army pistol in his hand , knelt beside me and said , ‘ If you want me to kill him , I will . |
| 14 | I says yeah and then I heard , I did n't hear what she said and I heard him say look if you want me to have him it 's got to be legal . |
| 15 | Almost as if he sensed her watching him , his eyes met hers across the pool . |
| 16 | They believe that it is possible for man , and that it is indeed his highest intellectual and emotional task , to survey his own being , to call into the forefront of his mind every attitude and habit of mind , of emotion , of passion and feeling , to penetrate down beneath these superficial layers , to deeper and deeper and ever more tranquil , untroubled generalized forms of the self , until eventually you come within sight of some inner absolutely undisturbed pool which every person has within himself , and which if he finds it removes him finally from the distracting passions of ordinary life , and with this rider , that in proportion as you get there and find this thing , this true self within yourself , you find that it is n't just something subjective and peculiar to you , it is something identical with the world , so that in solving your own problems in one sense , you do it by transcending your ordinary nature . |
| 17 | he knew if he allowed her to anger him , then he had lost ; at all costs he had to control his temper . |
| 18 | If he wants anybody to lead him to the so-called English plotters , it 's the very best possible way to go about it . |
| 19 | ‘ Because I guess it suited him . ’ |
| 20 | Add to that a predilection to falling off buses because you think you see Him on every corner , in every crowd , at every window , and the inevitability of actually seeing Him in the off-licence when you were n't expecting to , and feeling your entire stomach lurch forward involuntarily like waking from a dream of falling . |
| 21 | We both had anoraks but Oliver would never pull up his hood because he said it made him look like a monk and he did n't want to endorse Christianity . |
| 22 | Matisse and all the others saw the twentieth century with their eyes but they saw the reality of the nineteenth century , Picasso was the only one in painting who saw the twentieth century with his eyes and saw its reality and consequently his struggle was terrifying , terrifying for himself and for the others , because he had nothing to help him , the past did not help him , nor the present , he had to do it all alone and , in spite of much strength he is often very weak , he consoled himself and allowed himself to be seduced by other things which led him more or less astray . |
| 23 | She said I do n't mind going grey but , but Paddy objects because he says it makes him feel old . |
| 24 | ‘ Anyway , you know that Tim is only saying that because he wants you to marry him . |
| 25 | I am grateful for that because it enables me to provide him with a fuller response on those points than I might otherwise have been able to do . |
| 26 | A clergyman in his late thirties recently said : ‘ No-one has asked me about my praying since I was ordained ! ’ — whether he wanted anyone to ask him was not clear , but the implication was that he needed it ! |
| 27 | It was not long before he asked her to marry him , and the widow happily accepted him . |
| 28 | It 's a shame he did n't say that before he asked me to marry him . ’ |
| 29 | In that last summer before he died I read him the whole of Proust … |
| 30 | She had scarcely recovered her composure from that frantic evening before he invited her to join him on the royal yacht Britannia during Cowes Week . |