Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] him [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , he said yesterday , the love and understanding of a 26-year-old woman he met less than a month ago has convinced him he should remain living life as a man . |
| 2 | According to yesterday 's report , the man has decided to come forward because the gang has told him they are ending his regular cash payments , which he used to collect in London . |
| 3 | ‘ Dean has told him he would do all his running and Dalian decided here was the guy he had waited for throughout his career , ’ said the Villa manager . |
| 4 | A psychiatrist has told him he wo n't ever be able to do it . |
| 5 | He loves her so much and what 's he going through now she has told him she has a child by another man ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Leanne has told him she loves him but ca n't live with him . |
| 7 | His voice had deepened , the words becoming more guttural as for the first time since she 'd met him he seemed to struggle with a language which was not his own . |
| 8 | Her heart beat crazily within her as she recalled that the last time she 'd seen him she had hit him with all her might — and from the look of fury on his face he was not easily going to forgive her ! |
| 9 | He wished she 'd told him she was going to see her friend before he got into the car . |
| 10 | Once she 'd put the phone down on him the previous night she 'd regretted her skittish way with him , and , after a heart-to-heart with Marlin in which she 'd told him she wanted to go back to England , and he 'd replied that it would all seem different in the morning and why did n't she just take a pill and lie down , she 'd decided to call him back . |
| 11 | There were hundreds of entries under Wells and a dozen or more A's ; none of them matched with Alison 's address as he remembered it ; and yet she 'd told him she was in the book . |
| 12 | Lachy had been back one time afterwards that she knew of , a year later , and he had called , but she 'd told him she would n't be able to see him , and put the phone down on him . |
| 13 | She 'd told him she 'd have to go back to work and he had laughingly agreed , making some quip about being escort to a star and hitting the gossip columns . |
| 14 | She 'd told him she wanted a break from her own very successful career — that had been bending the truth more than a little , but taking over the club , putting her own life on hold for a little while , had seemed a small price to pay for her father 's health . |
| 15 | She 'd told him she did n't need a man in her life , that she had no wish for a home and family , that her career was all-important . |
| 16 | Though in her anger she 'd told him it was no more than he deserved , in reality she considered it a rather low thing to have done . |
| 17 | I thought you 'd told him I were having a couple of days |
| 18 | Harry said you 'd told him you loved him , but only a fortnight ago you sat here telling me you might well go to Jamaica with Dunbar . ’ |
| 19 | " I wonder what he would have said , Chuck , if I 'd told him he 'd just served a drink to someone who 's probably going to be much more important one day than a run-of-the-mill Democratic senator from Virginia ? " |
| 20 | She had n't conceded anything , even though she 'd wanted to , and she 'd shown him she could be just as determined as he was himself . |
| 21 | Why , in all the time she 'd known him he had never said the words . |
| 22 | She watched in silence , her heart crying out to him , suddenly fearful that almost in the same moment that she 'd found him she had lost him , but without knowing why . |
| 23 | ‘ I felt that if we 'd signed him he could have given us just that little bit extra up front which would have enabled us to win the title . |
| 24 | Sylvia was an English rose , and when she 'd seduced him it had been the pinnacle of his life . |
| 25 | When I run away twelve months later I took two 'undred and nineteen pennies with me , which meant I 'd showed him me legs two 'undred and nineteen times in a year . |
| 26 | Michael , if I 'd lost him I 'd have gone out to look for him — he died . ’ ’ |
| 27 | Why she 'd married him she could n't imagine . |
| 28 | I should never have given him them keys … . ’ |
| 29 | You should have seen him he climbed on top of a box last night to get to the telly . |
| 30 | ‘ Perhaps we should have told him she spent twenty years not selling the Britches simply to annoy the people who wanted to buy it , ’ said Edward . |