Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone respected him . |
| 2 | One of them asked him a question . |
| 3 | They rode in five westbound trains and four eastbound trains , observing how the crowds began to thin , especially in those heading for inner London , encountering no trouble beyond some pushing and shoving by teenage boys and a smoker in the third car who put out his cigarette without protest when one of them asked him . |
| 4 | He hated to see a dripping tap , and nothing made him angrier than Blackpool Tower blazing with , what to him was , utterly squandered energy . |
| 5 | He tried to live an ordinary life , working as a bus driver , and accounts clerk at Harrods and later studying for a zoology degree , but nothing made him content . |
| 6 | When everyone expected him to break into a nimble tune , he played a slow air that sounded Irish in the long luxuriant unfolding of each phrase . |
| 7 | Then , in 1964 he won the Masters again and everyone expected him at St Andrews for the Open Championship . |
| 8 | President Truman did so in a campaign which no-one expected him to win , and he won . |
| 9 | None of them got him to justify our membership of the ERM , which is , as everyone knows , the cause of our high interest rates . |
| 10 | Then one of them led him up the garden path to a shed . |
| 11 | Then one of them led him up the garden path to a shed . |
| 12 | Something about them made him feel deeply afraid , but he knew that he could n't just stand there . |
| 13 | The prospect of seeing them made him full of joy . |
| 14 | They knew that the same power he used to move them moved him . |
| 15 | No-one stopped him , which is surprising given that he 's not the sort who fits into a group of golfers , never mind a crowd . |
| 16 | His clever course management in the wake of continuous swing problems had made Olazabal a huge favourite with the Sun City galleries , many of whom rated him the superior of Seve Ballesteros , a two-time winner of the event . |
| 17 | The fellow never seemed to age , nothing changed him ; no lines of worry on his cherubic face , while those hard , glassy eyes shimmered with a quiet amusement . |
| 18 | Seeing his face , no-one approached him . |
| 19 | On the following Monday some of them pursued him to a review that was taking place on Wimbledon Common , while others went to the City , occupied the Royal Exchange and picketed the coffee houses , carrying placards reading More Wages . |
| 20 | I tolled him i thort he was rong and that the jokes are abowt as funny as some jokes that are very funny . |
| 21 | I asked him . |
| 22 | He wanted to rush round straight away but I asked him to be patient . |
| 23 | Patting his cheeks with his handkerchief all the time ( till I asked him to stop it ) . |
| 24 | I asked him . |
| 25 | I asked him . |
| 26 | I asked him to explain his pricing policy . |
| 27 | ‘ I asked him : ‘ What 's going on ? |
| 28 | Once I asked him when he slept . |
| 29 | There was a nice-looking American at the next table , however , so I asked him whether he was a drug-fiend , dealing in human misery , in which case , I said , I 'd like some Ecstasy . |
| 30 | As we ate , I asked him about 45 Marine Commando casualties since the landing . |