Example sentences of "him [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beyond him rode the Lombard brothers grinning broadly and enjoying themselves . |
| 2 | In front rode Mr Rochester on his black horse , and with him rode a beautiful lady , her black curls streaming in the wind . |
| 3 | All around him rode many squadrons of Rajput cavalry whose armour glittered from afar . |
| 4 | If we point to those aspects of the addict 's experience which seem to him to confirm his beliefs , we will seem to be making an apology for the addict . |
| 5 | Nothing could persuade him to confirm or deny . |
| 6 | In Britain Eddie Owen is committed to the idea and is trying to raise , or have underwritten , the £500,000 which will allow him to confirm an order . |
| 7 | While declaring an interest and reluctantly accepting what my right hon. Friend says about flying squadrons , may I ask him to confirm that there is a good future for the Royal Auxiliary Air Force in view of its exceptional record and its cost effectiveness as a reserve force ? |
| 8 | Instead it is copied to the plaintiff together with new Form N236 which asks him to confirm whether he wishes the case to proceed or that he is withdrawing the action ( Ord 9 , r 2(7) ) . |
| 9 | The shadow chancellor , Gordon Brown , wrote to Mr Lamont asking him to confirm whether he will compensate in full pensioners and others on income support for the rise , which he estimated at £2 a week . |
| 10 | And I 'll write to him to confirm , and er , if I do bump into him , I shall jog memory of that one . |
| 11 | De Niro had to fight for him to co-star in GoodFellas , but that was the picture which changed it all . |
| 12 | I told him to dowse his lantern and follow the other boat . |
| 13 | Later ( Mk 12 : 29 ) they would hear him affirm the oneness of God , but how reconcile that with this ? |
| 14 | With a bunch of others voices inside him clamouring to be heard ( Dieter — the clipped-toned Kraftwerkian presenter of German youth show , Sprockets ; the maniacal owner of the Scottish gift shop , All Things Scottish — motto , ‘ If it 's not Scottish , it 's crap ! ! ! ’ ) , does he feel , the inevitable film sequel notwithstanding , that Wayne 's just about past his sell-by date ? |
| 15 | Grumpily Dai Huang chose Li Lu , to help him construct a newer , bigger kiln . |
| 16 | ‘ Put yourself into the hands of a Gothic architect , tell him what you want , let him invoke his muse and his clerks , and know the result . |
| 17 | The land he rode was marshy , forcing him to weave an intricate course past the more treacherous patches . |
| 18 | I feel like flogging him but want him treated as well . |
| 19 | Instead his owner , 18-year-old Helen Woodruff from Walcot in Swindon , ignored advice to have him treated , and when the RSPCA found him 6 weeks later the wound was so swollen that Capri was in agony . |
| 20 | But he had paid part of that apothecary 's bill that very morning , and the attorney to whom the bailiff took him agreed there had been a mistake . |
| 21 | The smudginess of the pastels had helped him cover up early errors . |
| 22 | As for the future , Clayton hopes to produce a book of selected work and is trying to convince his superiors to let him cover sport full time for the SMH , though he keeps an open mind . |
| 23 | He returned to the barn to ask the other farm workers to help him cover the ricks . |
| 24 | I never felt him cover me , or tuck me up … |
| 25 | The Jacobites now threatened to bombard Carlisle if the castle did not surrender , causing the remaining militia , on 15 November , to desert , leaving Durand with only the ‘ invalids ’ to form the garrison , while the civil authorities , horrified at the threat to the town , seem to have encouraged him to capitulate . |
| 26 | She knew that he ‘ ought always to live in the country ; and someday you will with me ’ ; for the present , she encouraged him to carry out his father 's plans . |
| 27 | No matter how he tried , he could not judge exactly when to empty the pot before it became too heavy for him to carry all the way to the bathroom . |
| 28 | It also posed a delicate problem for the Home Secretary himself , since Lord Scarman had been appointed by him to carry out his Inquiry . |
| 29 | It would be placing too heavy a burden on an employer to require him to carry out a formal medical investigation and , even if he did , such an investigation would rarely be fruitful because of the transient nature of the employee 's symptoms and complaints . |
| 30 | The ‘ observer as participant ’ is known by the group under study to be an observer but has been accepted , temporarily , by the group and allowed temporary membership to enable him to carry out the research . |