Example sentences of "[noun pl] [that] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Despite some criticisms that it made him look like Michael Foot , it was a media success . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ He never once put his hand into his box all the years that I served him , ’ meaning he never gave me a gift of money , a bonus for service above and beyond the call of time . |
| 7 | It was when we had settled down to talk in comfortable armchairs that I told him that the man for whom I had substituted at Marlborough , in the hope of replacing him altogether , now planned to return , so that once more I should be out of a job . |
| 8 | The sultan , however , refused to avail himself of this " Vienna Note " , on the grounds that it required him to make too many concessions . |