Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] him [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She swallowed her disappointment and told him she loved him . |
| 2 | She closed her eyes and told him he was wonderful . |
| 3 | In any case , how could she look into his eyes and convince him she would n't touch him with a ten-foot pole when every time he came within a few feet of her she quivered inside , remembering the fierce and all too brief pressure of his mouth on hers ? |
| 4 | I want you to get in touch with the Mayor and tell him I need to have the Council offices opened up . |
| 5 | She caught up with Pascoe by the lifts and told him she would like to talk . |
| 6 | I was impressed by Ali Wali and told him I hoped to get permission to return . |
| 7 | On 31 August 1986 , just three weeks before the Fall Term was due to begin , Donleavy called from Washington and told him he had to make an urgent trip to Lebanon . |
| 8 | A big reason for bringing him was so he would not call Tod Richardson on the telephone and inform him I was coming . |
| 9 | ‘ Give Cornelius my best wishes and tell him I hope he gets well soon . ’ |
| 10 | That 's where you met Colin and told him I was having a new car . |
| 11 | But — and it 's this sort of complication that makes him I think such a remarkable man — although that did happen then , for the next ten , twelve years , he was entirely preoccupied , almost entirely preoccupied with something else , and this something else erm originates from the other revolution that he underwent at this time , a revolution that occurred after a visit to an international mathematical congress in Paris , where he met the Italian mathematician Peano . |
| 12 | ‘ I have had a long chat with Stephen and told him I know that he is knocking at the door of the full international side , but I would rather he played and helped out in the match at Tannadice than did nothing at Ibrox . ’ |
| 13 | And in order to write about those things that upset him he would have to think about them . |
| 14 | He ran up the street and through the town as far as the main road , where he saw a sign that told him it was just seventy miles from there to London . |
| 15 | A week or so later the Italian experts returned the recorder to the magistrate and told him they were unable to read the recorded information . |
| 16 | Take his name and tell him he 's got a deal . ’ |
| 17 | Di halted the unveiling ceremony in the City of London , called David to the platform and told him she was ‘ delighted ’ with the picture . |
| 18 | Perhaps the Minister had had a row with his wife and to wound him she used my name . |
| 19 | Aerial photographers scanning the country for just such signs had recorded the Hatherley evidence and told him it was virtually certain to be a Roman villa , but that archaeologists would give precedence to the more important sites . |
| 20 | But by the time I saw my husband I had chickened out of confessing the price and told him I bought it in a charity shop for 50p — how gullible can husbands be ? |
| 21 | Later , when he was in Wimbledon , I used to go round and drop some seeds on the ground and tell him they were pot . |
| 22 | Straightaway Steve got on to Malcolm and told him they needed all this money to join up with Scientology . |
| 23 | I could n't think of a good reason why not so I ushered him towards the stairs and told him I lived in Flat 3 . |
| 24 | The Headmaster did n't know any of the details but reassured him it would be alright . |
| 25 | Beneath the fabric of his borrowed shirt , her fingers trapped and twisted his skin in a burning pinch that told him she intended to deal with him later . |
| 26 | Ring Jones and tell him I 'm taking you to this dinner . ’ |
| 27 | In Darlington , Robert visited an agency that told him it was unable to help him find accommodation in Newton Aycliffe . |
| 28 | He had n't suggested the film might not come out although she could n't have had time to develop it yet and she was n't working through a ‘ friend ’ sent round to sympathise with him deplore the whole thing and assure him it could be stopped if he 'd only tell that terrible woman one little thing … ’ — And since I 'm not married or anything I thought I 'd stick to the personal angle . |
| 29 | Take yourself up to Keith and tell him I 'll be back to say what happened . ’ |
| 30 | A phrenologist — that careers master of the nineteenth century — once examined Flaubert and told him he was cut out to be a tamer of wild beasts . |