Example sentences of "him [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we point to those aspects of the addict 's experience which seem to him to confirm his beliefs , we will seem to be making an apology for the addict . |
| 2 | I told him to dowse his lantern and follow the other boat . |
| 3 | ‘ Put yourself into the hands of a Gothic architect , tell him what you want , let him invoke his muse and his clerks , and know the result . |
| 4 | But he had paid part of that apothecary 's bill that very morning , and the attorney to whom the bailiff took him agreed there had been a mistake . |
| 5 | I never felt him cover me , or tuck me up … |
| 6 | If only she could tell him how she longed for him to carry her off , but would n't that make him think her wanton ? |
| 7 | Her brain whirling , Luce allowed him to carry her downstairs without further protest . |
| 8 | And get him to carry it . |
| 9 | On the day I moved in my Mother had warned me not to let him rule my life like he 'd ruled my Father 's , but it never occurred to me to disobey him and seemed natural to follow the ‘ week planner ’ he 'd written out and pinned to the notice-board in the kitchen : Monday — Washing Tuesday — Ironing Wednesday — Youth Club etc . |
| 10 | The Minister 's only defence I do not recall him using it in Committee — against the charge that he is wantonly selling public assets cheaply is that we always have recourse to the Public Accounts Committee . |
| 11 | If his luck held , nothing could prevent him using it . |
| 12 | This , of course , is very unfair : it is just not reasonable for me to flounce about in the bathroom for hours and then make a man feel inadequate when I catch him using my dental floss. or to bellow in disgust when I find out he blow-dries his hair . |
| 13 | ‘ It is not an exaggeration to assume that as many as 100 women could have been abused by him using his evil methods , ’ one detective told TODAY . |
| 14 | One detective said : ‘ It is not an exaggeration to assume that during his career as many as a hundred women could have been abused by him using his evil methods . |
| 15 | PAUL BEDWORTH is small and slightly built but he was strong enough to push his mother down a flight of attic stairs when she tried to stop him using his computer . |
| 16 | But on the whole there was a simplicity and directness about the way she had written that had pleased him , and occasional bits of unintended humour that had made him laugh , though the way she had written about her family — her grandmother in particular , had made him think her unobservant . |
| 17 | If only she could tell him how she longed for him to carry her off , but would n't that make him think her wanton ? |
| 18 | Let him think what he wants . ’ |
| 19 | She would ask the tutor to get her a block — let him think what he liked . |
| 20 | ‘ Let him think what he likes . |
| 21 | Let him think they were going to get married if he wanted to . |
| 22 | And do not let him think he is to be parted from you forever Ellen for this would not be the truth . |
| 23 | You 're doing him harm , making him think he 's so wonderful . ’ |
| 24 | He was a fool to expect anything other than he got , however : surely only vanity could have made him think he could seduce a mob of Madness fans ? |
| 25 | Would have made him think he was with the poor bloody paras in a tent in Afghanistan … |
| 26 | What makes him think he 's so wonderful ? ’ |
| 27 | She professed love for Gentle at intervals , but not with sufficient consistency to make him think he could prise her from her husband , even if he wanted to , which he was by no means certain he did . |
| 28 | More recently his attempt to damp down the fires of the Rushdie controversy , A Satanic Affair : Salman Rushdie and The Rage of Islam , infuriated both Muslim militants and some of Rushdie 's friends , which makes him think he got the balance about right . |
| 29 | And made him think he could trust me . |
| 30 | His ankles were unbound ; it made him think he was higher off the ground than he would have liked . |