Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] him [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd like to get it sorted out a bit for him really before the summer starts |
| 2 | Miriam was a part of him now ; he was unable to put her out of his mind . |
| 3 | When Souness played , a part of him always stood aside , literally watching his own skills . |
| 4 | I knew I would n't be welcome at the funeral so I sent some flowers , and I got Father Ryan to say a mass for him instead . ’ |
| 5 | The ‘ English Hiss ’ would have served as a description of him too . |
| 6 | Well let's let's have a look at him again . |
| 7 | Erm , you can go down and have a look at him there . |
| 8 | When she stepped from the car he had greeted her with careful formality and his manner had remained stiff and impersonal as they began the ride ; but she sensed a tension in him too and knew intuitively that it was not a lack of interest that kept his gaze averted from her . |
| 9 | This is one of two ways to place your opponent at a disadvantage without him even knowing about it . |
| 10 | But a confrontation with him now was more than Lisa could handle . |
| 11 | ‘ My Dad bought a car off him once . |
| 12 | A person will only be an arbitrator or quasi-arbitrator if there is a submission to him either of a specific dispute or of present points of difference or of defined differences that may in future arise and if there is agreement that his decision will be binding . |
| 13 | I grant you we put a check on him once , and could again , but never think you saw the true measure of de Burgh in Kerry , there 's more to him than that . |
| 14 | If I asked a question of him then he 'd answer seriously , but if I floated a question and waited to see which of the students would pick it up I could guarantee that it would never be Holly . |
| 15 | If I ever have a dig at him now he says : ‘ Christ , you 've read the same books as I have ! ’ and I say : ‘ Yeah but you 've got the licence to prove it . ’ ’ |
| 16 | I 'm not out to if they 're going to claim on this diesel then that 's up to them but I 'm not going to have our lads or anybody else blamed for something which definitely does not exist and I shall tell as soon as I erm I meet him to have a chat with him again that he 's going along the wrong lines . |
| 17 | The two erm handlers here , I do n't know whether there 's one who 's handling and the other one 's just sort of having a chat with him about but , you know , they they 're important in the picture but they 're not er you know , the horses completely dominate the , the two people in the picture . |
| 18 | Had he allowed her to make a fool of him again ? |
| 19 | possible that Paul has had a already had a reply from the Destiny people , you know , the ap at my urging Paul joins these people to find himself another girl because I 'm so sick of hearing about Karen who 's treated him made a fool of him totally |
| 20 | She recognised that he wanted her to forget what had happened , but that it also leapt vividly before his eyes and had a hold on him too . |
| 21 | She shook a folder at him triumphantly . |
| 22 | In my newspaper message to John I had said that hundreds of people would be attending a benefit for him tonight . |
| 23 | That is the old-fashioned type of socialism that the hon. Member for Sheffield , Hillsborough ( Mr. Flannery ) has always pursued , and unfortunately the occupants of the Labour Front Bench have taken a lead from him rather than from more sensible parents . |
| 24 | It was a revelation to him how important this was , how much it meant . |
| 25 | And he 's got a meeting with him again this afternoon . |
| 26 | ‘ I had a meeting with him here this morning . |
| 27 | Weave a circle round him thrice And close your eyes with holy dread For he on honey-dew hath fed . |
| 28 | Downes sat at the table in Interview Room Two on the ground floor , spell-bound and motionless , as if a witch had drawn a circle round him thrice . |
| 29 | When you have travelled half across the world , with the background of the man you are going to meet gradually being filled in for you , a picture of him inevitably forms in the mind . |
| 30 | She had put her hair up so as to look older than her sixteen years but even so she straightened her music and her shoulders with such self-consciousness that the maturity of her voice came as a shock to him just as it always did . |