Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say he walked to the centre of the Sun Chamber , and that as he did so , the disguise fell from him , and everyone saw him for what he really was . |
| 2 | Then , in 1964 he won the Masters again and everyone expected him at St Andrews for the Open Championship . |
| 3 | The husband was called Jack , and everyone called him by his first name , but for some reason one always called his wife Mrs Thwaites , although we all knew her Christian name was Margaret . |
| 4 | He got spoiled with Mrs Sargent always buying him things and everyone letting him do what he wanted . |
| 5 | He 's the epitome of the extrovert , he knows everyone and everyone knows him . ’ |
| 6 | Everyone remembered him as a big man in all senses but not as a good headmaster except that he liked everyone and everyone liked him and in chapel he was a superlative speaker . |
| 7 | In the event of trouble , remove the villain , let the other fish settle for a few days and them put him back . |
| 8 | ‘ Come in , Hari , sure Cleg will be that glad to see you , he 's been wearing his brother 's boots to work in and them pinching him like the devil . ’ |
| 9 | He hated to see a dripping tap , and nothing made him angrier than Blackpool Tower blazing with , what to him was , utterly squandered energy . |
| 10 | He is a ‘ movie ’ man ; and nothing does him greater credit than his energetic campaign to get Kodak to mend their stock , so that colour-films of the past do not automatically fade and turn green . |
| 11 | ‘ A half-pay lieutenant , with no family connections , and nothing to recommend him but his pretty face ? |
| 12 | He was no respecter of persons or institutions or ideas just because they were vested with a brief authority , and nothing gave him more pleasure than to prick the bubble of pretension . |
| 13 | Under his guidance , Parliament House was transformed from a nineteenth-century warren into a modern court-house and nothing gave him greater pleasure than to explore , and share with others , its secrets and treasures . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's just that Luke invited Heather and me to join him and his friends for dinner last night . |
| 15 | Mostly about him bein' bad and me watchin' him , like . |
| 16 | Would he 've had time to take it home in between stealing it and me finding him ? |
| 17 | Elton does n't deserve to be called the worst , he 's very stylish and I dress him for the country . |
| 18 | I did n't know him very well and I despised him for being well behaved and creeping around telling stories about me . |
| 19 | So , we toast the railway station and I tell him the only Czech joke I know . |
| 20 | He asks if he should and I tell him , ‘ Yes , that is part of sharing ’ . ’ |
| 21 | I tell the DI why ; I tell him about two more betrayals ; about the commanding officer who had let men die to cover up his own inadequacy ( or at least Andy believed he had , which was all that mattered ) , and I tell him about the locum doctor who could n't be bothered to attend a patient and then , when he eventually did pay a visit , just assumed her pain was something trivial . |
| 22 | ‘ Everything all right outside ? ’ he asks , and I tell him I checked before coming in . |
| 23 | We go a hundred yards and I tell him to stop . |
| 24 | He was absolutely right in that respect and I remember him delivering this homily at The Three Tuns and the people receiving it in a rather stony silence because they were not used to being lectured . |
| 25 | Ken Clarke was my minister of roads and I remember him coming back on more than one occasion with steam coming out of his ears . |
| 26 | ‘ And I remember him very well , I remember him still . |
| 27 | I think that James knew in his heart that Niki was a more complete driver than himself and I remember him saying back then that while he was taking himself more seriously every race that went by , he knew that , compared to Niki , he was still the less ‘ thoughtful ’ and the more ‘ instinctive ’ driver . |
| 28 | ‘ I asked him what his impression was of the University and I remember him looking at me and saying : ‘ Very friendly , very prosperous and doing very well ’ . |
| 29 | I tried to improve it and I remember him screaming at me in the street after the first-night party in London . ’ |
| 30 | And I remember him once leaving up there with eleven . |