Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sally-Anne closed her eyes , opened them to see him lift his hands to cover his face , his head bent , shoulders bowed , his world in ruins about him . |
| 2 | He 's drunk enough to float the Mauretania , and left me to drive him home that 's had so little over me lips you would think it was Lent . ’ |
| 3 | Let them think him high-handed ; he was damned if he was going to let this greasy television pundit push him about . |
| 4 | It was much too late for me to acknowledge him . |
| 5 | My Pop came to me with an old Army pistol in his hand , knelt beside me and said , ‘ If you want me to kill him , I will . |
| 6 | Well it 's no use me phoning him up is it ? |
| 7 | Some story about a raid , that was it , them finding ST with a stainless steel jig screwed to his pate , them sticking him in a sack , jig and all . |
| 8 | One of them asked him a question . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Are you trying to stop me seeing him ? |
| 11 | I think Harvey wanted me to hit him . |
| 12 | Whether he wanted to be hurt and suffer , or an excuse to hit me back , I do n't know , but I 'm sure he wanted me to hit him . |
| 13 | But he came back three days later crying his eyes out and begging me to forgive him , he looked like a helpless puppy . |
| 14 | And you know with huskies , if one of them drops dead , the rest of them eat him . |
| 15 | Hugo looked at his contemporaries , less clever than himself , and saw them outstrip him . |
| 16 | ‘ Part of me hates him , ’ he admitted , ‘ and the other part of me hates myself for feeling jealous of such a fantastic guy . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ If the king my brother-in-law is ill , then it behoves me to see him , judge what may be done to assist him and inform the queen-dowager . ’ |
| 18 | For all that , it disturbs me to see him portrayed as Hüsker Dü 's creative force when Grant Hart had at least an equal hand in writing their material . |
| 19 | I was anxious to settle the terms of the contract with M. Chaillot and , because I wanted to avoid being cornered by him in Passy , I suggested to Jean-Claude that he make an appointment for me to see him at the radio , mid-morning , on a date when I had a luncheon appointment . |
| 20 | To picture a man in words , one 's much like another , ’ said Aldhelm , ‘ but bring me to see him , I 'll pick him out from a thousand . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Could you come with me to see him ? |
| 22 | " Well then , do you think it 's necessary for me to see him ? " |
| 23 | So the Commissioner asked me to see him . |
| 24 | Then in a louder voice she cried , ‘ You took me to see him , do you remember ? |
| 25 | Then he held two men friends of his estranged wife at gunpoint and forced them to drive him 200 miles to her secret address at Barrow-in- Furness , Cumbria . |
| 26 | And Dr Carrington had particularly asked me to disconnect him from the ventilator . |
| 27 | As Templeman LJ put it : As between Scherings and [ the expert ] if [ the expert ] had obtained the information from sources other than Scherings , then it would of course not have been confidential in his hands , but , by agreeing to advise Scherings and by accepting information from them to enable him to advise Scherings , [ the expert ] placed himself under a duty , in my judgment not to make use of that information without the consent of Scherings in a manner which Scherings reasonably considered harmful to their cause . |
| 28 | Then he called for the caskets of gold in which was the balsam and the myrrh which the Soldan of Persia had sent him ; and when these were put before him he bade them bring him the golden cup , of which he was wont to drink ; and he took of that balsam and of that myrrh as much as a little spoon-full , and mingled it in the cup with rose-water and drank of it ; and for the seven days which he lived he neither ate nor drank aught else than a little of that myrrh and balsam mingled with water . |
| 29 | The point dogs catch him and one of them nips him on the leg — take that for being more popular with the boss . |
| 30 | None of them got him to justify our membership of the ERM , which is , as everyone knows , the cause of our high interest rates . |