Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I came down from Manchester two days ago , to meet my fellow archdeacons , and the Bishop told me of your husband 's application and of course that made me wish to meet him , and to meet you . |
| 2 | You 'd think I 'd given him the moon . ’ |
| 3 | I do n't think I 've heard him speak before , he s got a great Yorkshire accent for a Welsh lad . |
| 4 | I have n't touched him , I do n't think I 've had him any trouble |
| 5 | ‘ You mean someone tried to kill him ? ’ he said , his voice low . |
| 6 | When he got up to go I tried to tell him that I understood , that I would n't say anything if he would take me home , but he backed away out . |
| 7 | I tried to make my excuse sound plausible , but I fear I did hurt him ; he had been pronounced unfit for military service and he was lonely and smarting at his exclusion from the experience of his peers . |
| 8 | But there is I mean I 've assured him that things are being done . |
| 9 | ‘ But he wo n't be very pleased if he thinks I 've seen him lurking . |
| 10 | Which may make her happy but means that I am losing my marbles , and Darius thinks I 've betrayed him , and Victor would swallow his cigar . |
| 11 | The gifts had become a pressure , an embarrassment , and her refusal to accept them had made him manipulative . |
| 12 | ‘ Ann helped me try to resuscitate him . |
| 13 | How did you know I 'd met him ? ’ |
| 14 | They sent him home from school or something , send him straight home from school and er , do n't know I suppose take him to hospital today and then , I assume they 've got to bring him home and he said oh no he said you have n't got to take me home he said cos the boy 's got to be from school , come round tomorrow and pick you up |
| 15 | ‘ I did n't know you 'd seen him . ’ |
| 16 | To let the T'ang know who had killed him . |
| 17 | Well has she grown to love him cos of his money ? |
| 18 | It did n't hurt that much , but he pretended she 'd got him in the balls , hoping for a little wifely penitence . |
| 19 | ‘ They did n't know we 'd picked him up and I did n't tell them . |
| 20 | And when the first person to find him had turned him over , presuming him dead , he had bitten a chunk out of that person 's thigh . |
| 21 | But to find her meant giving him the slip , and she had n't been too successful at that the last time . |
| 22 | No one else was sure if they agreed , but they did know it had taken him nearly half an hour to get through , and the conversation had been brief . |
| 23 | He did n't know he had to give him a little verbal back . |
| 24 | His tenacious belief in the venture by keeping it running cost him heavy personal financial loss and his ‘ nursing ’ of this satire on operetta that has rarely been equalledis largely forgotten ( but not by me ) . |
| 25 | At the end of 1978 , when he realized the danger that Khomeini was inflicting on the Shah from France , Marenches say he tried to have him expelled from the country . |
| 26 | He did not know what had possessed him the night before , yet , gradually , the sweetness she gave him began to dissolve his confusion ; his vivid spurt of pleasure returned to him and he looked across at her and asked , ‘ Will you be coming to the passeggiata next Saturday ? ’ |
| 27 | But he wo n't know what 's hit him tomorrow . |
| 28 | Eventually he got fed up and told them to stop bothering him and ignored their letters . |
| 29 | Fran stopped , forcing the angry hysteria from her voice , realising it would do nothing to help convince him that he was wrong . |
| 30 | They were lies , but as it happens I had met him before . |