Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [pron] [vb past] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would n't mind betting that Bill 's lists that you gave him actually contained all these things and only then can we actually put them down in order . |
| 2 | One farmer told the authors that it cost him 194,000 Somali shillings ( $14 ) to grow 100 kilos ( 220lbs ) of maize , which he could sell for a mere 55,000 shillings at the local market . |
| 3 | His lips were doing wonderful things to one of her ears and she heard him swallow , then rasp , ‘ I 'm taking you upstairs to my room . ’ |
| 4 | Ireland spoke through you , and your mother , and a whole history of sexual repression ; the kneejerk of an oppressed peasantry rose up in you when Jed 's fingers tweaked my nipples and you hit him , comrade in Marx though he was . |
| 5 | Such scenes of domestic bliss would only turn to torments and she forced him to be a spectre at the back of her mind . |
| 6 | His voice had changed during the last few words and she pushed him hard against the end of the settle as she said , ‘ No , they wo n't come running , but have you ever thought of you doin' the askin' ? |
| 7 | During building renovations in a Milan flat at the end of October , copies of letters were discovered written in 1978 by the then DC president , Aldo Moro , while he was being held captive by the Red Brigades before they murdered him [ see pp. 29053-55 ] . |
| 8 | It was Cannistraro and his colleagues who also identified the mysterious Libyan who bought the clothes in Malta to wrap around the bomb , based on a photofit picture produced by the FBI from the shopkeeper 's phenomenally detailed description of his customer ten months after he saw him for the first and only time . |
| 9 | That story , you see , was invented originally by the Russians to cover up the fact that Zbigniew was badly tortured by the guards before they shot him . |
| 10 | He was dressed in a wide-sleeved ceremonial gown of dark silk and a soft hat embroidered with coloured threads partly hid his face from Lan and her brothers as they followed him through the doorway , walking barefoot between their father and mother . |
| 11 | Tears came into her eyes as she watched him , though she could n't have said why , but she did know it was something she 'd never forget , etched on her memory now forever . |
| 12 | Her excitement shone in her eyes as she showed him her sketches . |
| 13 | There were tears in Johnny 's eyes as he watched him turn into the laneway and out of sight ; he had a feeling he would never see him again . |
| 14 | He reminded himself to ask one of the guards when they brought him his next meal … |
| 15 | There was a vicious irony that it should be Brian , who always confronted the guards when they treated him subhumanly , who was now being abused like a dumb animal . |
| 16 | Fran brought her thoughts back to the moment , forcing a slight , polite smile to her lips as she flicked him a quick sideways glance . |
| 17 | He started wearing women 's clothes , he started putting on make-up and on the last couple of times that I saw him he was pretty strange . |
| 18 | Despite some criticisms that it made him look like Michael Foot , it was a media success . |
| 19 | He seemed to know a lot about female mysteries and I wanted him to explain . |
| 20 | Gwynn Jones received many other honours but none gave him greater pleasure than the publication of a selection of his poems , Detholiad o Ganiadau , by the Gregynog Press in 1926 , and the de luxe edition , issued in 1932–7 by Hughes & Son , Wrexham , of six volumes of selected poems and essays . |
| 21 | They did n't have visitors because it sent him into a fury . |
| 22 | The carpet sucked the soles of our shoes as we followed him through a drunken , grasping audience towards a small dressing room to the left of the stage , upon which Tanya was enjoying bananas for dessert . |
| 23 | He 'd been talking to these erm Greek blokes and they invited him into this bar for erm |
| 24 | ‘ He came round the desks and I kicked him in the back of his legs to get him to the floor and I used my shirt to put out the flames and Hazel gave him first aid . ’ |
| 25 | The lock sticks and I heard him turning his key . |
| 26 | Some things he longed to talk about — he agonized over the Christians ' attitude to nuclear bombs and it grieved him that Fisher did not agonize . |
| 27 | I would n't be able to break the story , and neither would the cops if they dug him out . |
| 28 | He said ‘ Okay , I want you to show me everything , ’ and I said ‘ Well , there are six strings , they 're tuned like this and written down an octave , ’ ( For those that do n't know , when guitar music is transposed onto a stave , it 's dropped a whole octave to keep it on the treble clef — Ed ) and he was taking notes and I gave him a beginning guitar book so that he could see how it was all written out ! |
| 29 | ‘ He was up against international defenders and they paid him the ultimate compliment of having to trip him up half of the time . |
| 30 | He feasted for months , for years , on a small pair of my slippers that I gave him ; I expect he has burnt them by now . |