Example sentences of "him that [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's important to him that everyone knows he is the champion , that he is better than anyone else and not necessarily looking for easy pay days . |
| 2 | He is engaged in conversation by McKendrick , another participant in the Colloquium , but does not reveal to him that what attracts him to the conference is the opportunity it affords him to go to the World Cup qualifying match between England and Czechoslovakia ( scene one ) . |
| 3 | Another experience was when he was praying before the crucifix in San Damiano and it seemed to him that it gave him the message , " Build my church " , which he immediately interpreted quite literally as , " Save this church from crumbling into ruins " . |
| 4 | In a single serpentine sentence Porfiry seems to dissolve into his own prose , showering Raskolnikov with a patter of tiny verbal blows as if exercising the Russian particle for its own sake ( nu da uzh ) , telling him that he considers him ‘ quite incapable ’ of committing suicide , and in the same breath to leave ‘ a short circumstantial note if he does . |
| 5 | It was n't until she got within a few yards of him that he realized it was Maisie . |
| 6 | Even trying to shield herself from him , she could feel that void in him that he wanted her to fill . |
| 7 | It was only after she called him that he telephoned her . |
| 8 | ‘ I suppose it was because you had such respect for him that you felt you could leave him in charge of the boarders tonight ? ’ |
| 9 | Give him a hug and tell him that you love him . |
| 10 | All you have to do , Laura , is to tell him that you love him , ’ she 'd added , putting her arms around her old friend and giving her a hug . |
| 11 | ‘ So I suddenly told him that I wished I had a son . |
| 12 | I answered him with lies , happy that he was so interested after I 'd been certain that he 'd never say a word to me : I told him that I grew it myself , my family grew it , and it was everywhere like green grass and empty milk bottles in London ; it was really amazing hashish. wherever I threw its seeds it sprang up like flames leaping into the air . |
| 13 | she say that , and she say that and she 's always writing your name over the books and everything , okay , oh yeah , you must ask him if he fancies me and love him and ask him why he do n't he phone me that often , ask him that , you must say , right yeah , but do n't tell him that I told you to ask him , yeah |
| 14 | I had been horrified at his scarecrow appearance when I first saw him at the clinic , and when I met him by chance in Tala-Tala I felt so sorry for him that I asked him if he would like to come for dinner . |
| 15 | If you can see a result If I talk to John Smith and tell him that I know he keeps riding on the pavement at you know , with no lights , it sounds minor , but the old age pensioner who keeps nearly getting missed , it 's very you know upsetting . |
| 16 | I told him that I thought he was much too gentle in his handling of the miners and the owners , and especially the latter , and that there were a lot of things he ought to have said . |
| 17 | They were to tell him that I loved him … |
| 18 | Maybe it was her way of telling him that she knew he was lying . |
| 19 | She felt like running round to his villa right now , in the middle of the night , banging on the door , screaming jealous , incoherent orders at him that she knew he would not obey . |
| 20 | Margrida 's absence would enable her to tell him that she wished him to cut down on the pretending — and on his caresses . |
| 21 | What would he say if she told him that she fought him because she was afraid that if she did n't she would fall in love with him ? |
| 22 | He still finds her extremely beautiful and she practically apologises to Pip for all the suffering that she put him through and tells him that she hopes they will still be friends ‘ apart ’ . |
| 23 | It was on the tip of her tongue to tell him that she thought she 'd seen Amy on Friday night . |
| 24 | And even crazier to have told him that she loved him . |
| 25 | She wanted to tell him that she loved him , but they were words she had never spoken to anyone . |
| 26 | Still she could not bring herself to touch him , until , turning his head , she saw the scar , and without thinking leaned forward to kiss that , a butterfly kiss like his , to show him that she loved him — and his scar . |
| 27 | He probably needs to get lost so often so that his mother will find him and remember to tell him that she loves him . |