Example sentences of "him [pron] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 But then he se he seemed then as if he 'd think twice before he 'd do anything when he used to come in you know I er I said to him I said look we used to call him in them days you know , now what did you that for ?
2 " You told him I had invited him ? "
3 ‘ Father Poole became very excited when I mentioned your name , and very annoyed when I told him I had let you go .
4 I did n't enjoy deceiving Eric , but I knew it was necessary ; I could n't tell him I 'd done it because he would n't have understood why I 'd done it .
5 No , and I had I er I had tried to appeal to him to be quiet , he said well I 've got to build this shed , I said well it do n't have to be during the night when other people are trying to sleep , he said well that 's up to them , and he started hammering again , while I was talking to him , and then I kept on and on and eventually , I think while I was talking to him I 'd kept him quiet while I was talking to him .
6 I had it for about two weeks before I told him I 'd got it !
7 ‘ Tell him I want to see him as soon as he gets back . ’
8 In the meantime , if you hear from him , please tell him I need to see him urgently . ’
9 I 'll tell him I have to call you — it 's what we 've agreed .
10 There had been something about him which had affected her deep down inside .
11 Goulding has a wild streak in him which has got him sent off twice and sin-binned four times .
12 You must n't tell him you 've seen me — that 's all over and done with . ’
13 When she had n't heard from him she 'd presumed he was n't keen .
14 She denied it but did not tell him she had seen him fighting with the pedlar or that the man had chased her and Oliver in Nice .
15 Her heart beat crazily within her as she recalled that the last time she 'd seen him she had hit him with all her might — and from the look of fury on his face he was not easily going to forgive her !
16 While hating him she had loved him , and , loving him , had no shame in wanting him to be her only mate .
17 She watched in silence , her heart crying out to him , suddenly fearful that almost in the same moment that she 'd found him she had lost him , but without knowing why .
18 Boswell hit back : ‘ I am diverted with you , sir , ’ and Johnson laid him low : ‘ Doing such a thing makes one lose confidence in him who has done it , as one can not tell what he may do next . ’
19 But when I was seeing him he offered to write me a check for five million pound , I said , I could n't take a check for five million pound because I was a to me .
20 After she had been introduced to him he had sent her to get him a cup of coffee , but not before patting her behind .
21 But because she had not felt ready to go to bed with him he had punished her by trying to destroy her self-confidence .
22 She would tell him he had mistaken her for Dana and then he would leave .
23 For a moment she almost lied to him and told him he had brought her nothing .
24 I told him he 'd got it wrong .
25 So somebody had to tell him he 'd left them at the
26 If he 's got a job there , and he 's done it well or he 's done it badly , tell him he 's done it badly , tell them where they 've gone wrong and tell them what they should do to put it right .
27 Oh he went , he went to tell him he 's got his .
28 The Beggar tells him he has done him good already , and asks him not to spurn but to honour the experience of old age , claiming that poverty has shown him God .
29 Since Tixier-Vignancour did not actually have any questions to ask him he decided to bluff it out to the end .
30 And Nicol , knowing that by then Sub-Prior Herluin would be in Worcester , said that he would make his way there and tell him what had befallen us .
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