Example sentences of "him [conj] [pron] [vb -s] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then when I told him that it takes a man to make a man , he hit me right across the face . |
| 2 | With this in mind er , this morning I 've written to George , the trade union secretary of the Civil Engineering Conciliation Board , the negotiating machine and suggested to him that he contacts the employers to seek a further meeting to see if we can restart the talks based on doing something about the longstanding commitment by both sides of the industry to have a positive and sensible pay structure for the future this may be one way forward , one way out of the deadlock . |
| 3 | The NCOs take no action — Wall graffiti is an acceptable activity in Berlin — other than to warn him that he runs the risk of being arrested by the East Germans again . |
| 4 | Having met a cat , a teddy , a hen and an uncle , he finally finds a Mummy without a child and they all live hapily together until the uncle reminds him that he has no Daddy … |
| 5 | It is apparent to him that she has a difficult nature , at once placid and turbulent , bold and reserved . |
| 6 | At the start she is only so cruel as she is only Miss Havisham 's tool for revenge , and later she seems to have a little pity for Pip when she warns him that she has no heart . |
| 7 | Of course , it might be said that a man in your position , if you 'll forgive the expression , is dieting either because his lover has threatened to leave him if he does n't shed a few pounds or because his lover has left him and he feels a need to , shall we say , freshen up . |
| 8 | I love her but she loves him and he loves no one . |
| 9 | There is a picture of him and he looks a lot like his uncle Eddie when he was nobbut a lad . |
| 10 | With my help , he makes his way up the steep stairwell to the bedroom , though the covers are slacken to him and he has no hope of getting beneath them . |
| 11 | It suits him and he has every right to do so and Tom O'Connor has a lovely home down south . |
| 12 | The sound of his bracelet precedes him and he brings a rush of morning chill in . |
| 13 | ‘ Ask him if he understands the charge fully . ’ |
| 14 | " Ask him if he knows the magic words ! |
| 15 | You think the same thing could happen to him if he pursues the story ? ’ |
| 16 | Even so , he managed to spend a Sunday sailing in a friend 's boat , had met a potter who was throwing a dinner service for him ( ‘ will you phone my father and ask him if he wants a coffee set as well ? ’ ) and had found ‘ some beautiful corduroys . |
| 17 | oh I do n't know , I do n't know , I think it will be a while getting rid of it yes , but I think he might get his price eventually , but it will take a long while to get it , it 's up to him if he wants a quick sale , you know , thirty five yeah I , thirty five thousand I think , as I say taking everything into consideration , I mean , failing three okay I know I did the thirty three so take thirty five , thirty three and a half , oh he ai n't got much to worry about |
| 18 | I did n't ring him because he plays a mean alto-sax , though he is one of the best reed men currently not working out of a studio in the Windward Isles ( wherever ) . |
| 19 | ‘ That at this very minute Maria Luisa is telling him she ca n't marry him because she has a child by another man ? |
| 20 | To maintain good credibility with the client , you need to call him before he sees an article in a newspaper that may affect his company — after all you are supposed to be his key person with the best knowledge of the media . |
| 21 | I do so want to help him before he makes a complete fool of himself . |
| 22 | And as to Spasov and being saved — ‘ Il me semble que tout le monde va à Spassof ’ — there is still some comic devillife in him as he quotes the Saviour against his bible-selling saviour because she is taking thought for the morrow , and as he turns the gospel on its head with ‘ Happiness does n't pay me because I start at once forgiving all my enemies . ’ |
| 23 | THE Scotland Under-21 team manager , Craig Brown , will try to use the ‘ granny dimension ’ now open to him as he addresses the problems of call-offs before tomorrow 's game with Malta at Tannadice , writes Hugh Keevins . |
| 24 | As for Giggs — he is good but clearly over-rated : i go mad when papers/commentaries starts whining about him when he does a little trick or two and starting with the ‘ world class ’ and ‘ new George Best ’ stuff . |
| 25 | He is revered locally , and especially by Mrs Joe , as a man of great sagacity and judiciousness but is , in fact , a pompous , self-satisfied fool , who bullies Pip as a child but fawns upon him when he becomes a young man of fortune , and postures as the ‘ founder of his fortunes ’ since he had been the means of introducing Pip to Miss Havisham 's . |
| 26 | If he has n't said anything yet , we must catch him when he leaves the police station . ’ |
| 27 | His left leg is almost totally stiff , and he usually takes a stick with him when he leaves the house . |
| 28 | Barat discovers the trick played upon him when he finds the real Haimet without the meat . |