Example sentences of "[prep] him [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It 's not just a case of him taking us with all of what we had and were and us belonging to him , but he says i in taking you to myself , he says I give myself to you . |
| 32 | Said Taylor : ‘ I see this as part of David 's natural development and although this is a one-off there is every chance of him taking it on if he is still in the side when Stuart is no longer with us . ’ |
| 33 | Calls full of anguish , of him confessing his love for her , while imploring for time to explore his spiritual struggle . |
| 34 | It was just mean of him to give me a rotten old Bible instead . ’ |
| 35 | ‘ It was nice of him to give you that bracelet . |
| 36 | Yeah but some get in front of him Thank you . |
| 37 | He found he was angry with himself for leaving his seat ; he had badly wanted to hear what his father was about to say , but the all-too-familiar sound of him praising his brother had produced its usual feeling of agitation . |
| 38 | She snuggled down and began to drift to sleep , memories of Alain holding her here as she wept on that first day , memories of him bringing her up to bed after he had kissed her in the kitchen , fluttering like moths in the light , easing her into sleep . |
| 39 | ‘ How sweet of him to remember me , ’ Doreen said effusively . |
| 40 | ‘ The thought of him touching you first , holding you in his arms — yes , if I let it , it would drive me insane . ’ |
| 41 | I made him take me on a bit farther at the risk of him thinking I lacked the right sexual tactics . |
| 42 | He was silent , scowling , and Hoomey was too uncertain of him to say anything . |
| 43 | It was , she realised with astonishment , his version of an apology , and she had a feeling that it had taken a lot out of him to say it . |
| 44 | Nevertheless , it was unnecessary of him to say it — I 've spoken to an analyst about it and I 'll probably grow out of it , when I 'm bigger . |
| 45 | Her earliest memory was of him holding her tightly by the hand , when she was just a toddler , in case she strayed too near the rushing river . |
| 46 | He was the kindest , most generous of men , and spread great happiness ( Jane had only to think of him to cheer herself up ) — but was himself a tragic figure , tied to a wife he did not love . |
| 47 | Robyn thought , remembering the way she had flung herself out of the house , the agony of driving home , the touch and taste of him haunting her down every mile of motorway … the floods of tears … |
| 48 | It was then that her physical need of him kept her wide-eyed and restless . |
| 49 | ‘ You do n't mind ? ’ she asked , thinking it more than good of him to use his morning squiring her around , without him letting himself in for an afternoon of more of the same ! |
| 50 | Just as he was leaving the roof there was a crack which stung his eardrums and the flagpole , struck near the base by a round shot , came down on top of him dealing him a painful blow on the shoulder . |
| 51 | She was conscious of him watching her writhing and panting on the table . |
| 52 | He gestured , and the men on either side of him lowered their lances and charged Burun . |
| 53 | By the same token , Beveridge realised that if the man was paying the insurance contributions , cover could not be provided against the possibility of him leaving his wife . |
| 54 | ‘ It was kind of him to invite me . |
| 55 | ‘ Does n't the whole of him strike one ? |
| 56 | We pumped enough of the stuff out of him to open our own bar . |
| 57 | What I knew of him corrupted me far less than the false ideas I conceived . |
| 58 | By 19 November he had the whole amount , 30 francs , from Theo , and was writing to say how kind and humane it was of him to let him have the ticket money . |
| 59 | So it was really stupid of him to let you catch him after all . |
| 60 | Another chapter , on the Kapos and the Special Squads , exhibits what must surely be judged an analytic understanding of the concentration-camp system set up by the Nazis — an understanding Eberstadt is inclined to deny him , believing that the camps are insufficiently construed in the Auschwitz book as an institutionalised anti-Semitism peculiar to Germany and politically-determined : she thinks it is soft of him to see them as belonging to a universal latent hostility to strangers . |