Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] to him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stopped to listen to him during rehearsal . |
| 2 | I mean , please Quincx , I want to talk to him in person . |
| 3 | At the eighth count he received 42 more , transferred from Egan ( PG ) , eliminated , who had had voted transferred to him from five other candidates , F , H , B , Cr and O'S . |
| 4 | I tried to talk to him about it several times , but he would walk out on me . |
| 5 | Nobody has spoken to him in the way that you have , not for more than a year … |
| 6 | Sometimes she tried talking to him about India , with a genuine impulse to do what she could . |
| 7 | Only once , and perhaps not surprisingly , when he talked about having to explain the implications of what has happened to him to his five-year-old daughter , Camera , did he almost break down . |
| 8 | Susan had tagged a uniformed cop on the beat ill the distance , and guessed she would n't want to talk to him about the corpse . |
| 9 | You will want to talk to him about home , and he has things to ask you . |
| 10 | Here , an anonymous Company shrink checking out the efficiency of Spiderglass Southern , he was going to see the woman he 'd enslaved to him by playing God in her mind . |
| 11 | Thus , like Julian , the Prophet Muhammad said that his revelations seemed to come to him in two ways : some were clear and others were obscure and very difficult to understand . |
| 12 | Mrs James seemed to talk to him by the hour , in the middle of the night , sometimes , he believed , and so did the children . |
| 13 | No , I thought , I thought you meant you 'd spoken to him after my date . |
| 14 | Hi 's desperate overland journey is interrupted by weather , by bandits , by the hazards of terrain : finally captured by Lopez 's Reds , he learns that even while he was pressing forward with his message , Carlotta had been seized by Lopez and , after refusing to pray to him as the God he declares himself to be , had been brutally slaughtered by the public hangman . |
| 15 | then Sandy has n't given me a time but I think I 'd suggested to him between six and seven I think people like that they do n't have to go home and |
| 16 | You may like to write to him for more details . |
| 17 | ‘ Good-night , John , ’ she said , demurely , and walked up her front steps , turning to wave to him from inside the house . |
| 18 | Must remember I 've got to talk to him about here . |
| 19 | And we also talked about maybe you could say , erm , you know , if you continue to do a job , maybe we 'll look you know , at developing you further , but it 's all sort of , pretty similar sort of things you 're going to say to him in that situation . |
| 20 | She would so like to speak to him of all that was inside her . |
| 21 | It began to look to him like a conspiracy . |
| 22 | No-one could label him ‘ collaborator ’ , and a wide spectrum of the population began to look to him in the chaotic aftermath of the Japanese defeat . |
| 23 | Within the hour the camera , the film and the physical chemistry became so clear that with a great sense of excitement I hurried to the place where a friend was staying to describe to him in detail a dry camera which would give a picture immediately after exposure . |
| 24 | Now I I remember talking to him for hours once on a programme about education and this was when he first said what we want is teachers to be accountable . |
| 25 | ‘ I wish you 'd stop referring to him as ‘ the boyfriend ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ No names , no pack drill , but I know somebody who works for her and she was saying that Diana will be jolly pleased to have a lump sum to spend instead of having to go to him for her money . |
| 27 | When Hullmandel published his treatise The Art of Drawing on Stone in 1824 , the possibilities of lithography were better advertised ( although Hullmandel was careful not to describe the actual printing process , so that artists would have to come to him for that service ) , and Lear was one of the very first to be attracted to the technique . |
| 28 | In a letter from Tangier to Ken in London — Orton was known to write to him on toilet paper — he told Williams that ‘ Bill and Mike ’ kept Ken 's picture on the bar for several days until replaced by a half-empty Chianti bottle . |
| 29 | Or one of us would rush into the dressing room just before curtain-up and tell Terry there was someone who urgently needed to talk to him on the phone . |
| 30 | I ca n't reproduce the way he talks — you 'll have to listen to him for yourself — but he just sort of zooms off . |