Example sentences of "him [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | He certainly owed money but none of his creditors needed to obtain a writ to have him confined when the Government had arrested him for them . |
2 | He 'll go on bringing me cigarettes ( if he does n't I sha n't ask him for them ) and food . |
3 | As with values , it is probably best to assess your opponent 's objectives rather than to ask him for them . |
4 | I hope you may have found him for them . ’ |
5 | Gregory may have laughed at Chilperic 's attempts at apeing the culture of the Roman past , and despised him for them , but circuses were integral to the political culture of the later Roman Empire , and its Byzantine successor : the hippodrome was central to the court ritual of Constantinople . |
6 | He ai n't putting them up is he take them down to Helen 's then some lovely decorations we 'll ask him for them Helen . |
7 | It would be too much , given his limitations , to talk of Nikita the Great , but there was uncommon ability in him for which the world could eventually breathe more easily . |
8 | The tenant 's mere act of signing a lease agreement is not a supply by him for which the landlord provided the rent-free period as consideration . |
9 | He would have liked her to be indebted to him for something . |
10 | Thinking about this one morning in 1954 , I went along to the keeper of the laboratory chemical stores and asked him for something which was water-soluble and formed needle crystals . |
11 | And Lawrence confirmed yesterday : ‘ I would not discount making a move if I could get him for something like £700,000 . ’ |
12 | I asked him for something to ease the pain , but he reminded me that he could n't because I had a head wound . |
13 | But he pretended I 'd been bothering him for something , he was clever about it , it seemed real . ’ |
14 | I think we bought him for something like 650,000 . |
15 | By late September , the local doctor concluded that the lad was sinking fast , and told him ( according to the diary ) ‘ that notwithstanding all the efforts which have been made to check the disease , they had not done so … and advised him to look to God to prepare him for whatever might be the event of the disease . |
16 | If he 'd been on the train and had walked with the other racegoers towards the station , Filmer could have seen him through the window … and just the sight of him had caused the tensing of the neck muscles … and if Filmer had n't yet paid him for whatever … then he would come back to the train … |
17 | I rather fancied him for myself . ’ |
18 | ’ So I waltzed him across the road and put him in a doorway and left him for somebody else to find . |
19 | mistook him for somebody else and thumped him and knocked |
20 | Well he 's saying that that bloke mistook him for somebody else then ? |
21 | He ate the strawberries quickly before anyone could ask him for one . |
22 | I asked him for one yesterday and he said he never had one . |
23 | One lady who was working in the Smithy and had recently been directed to Wolverton , kept pestering him for one , and at times was quite verbal about it . |
24 | You just ask him for one ! |
25 | He is also an inch or two taller than I am , Not even the most stupid policeman in the land could possibly mistake him for me in an identity parade , but I suppose I am being too optimistic in assuming that literary critics are likely to be more intelligent or perceptive than an ignorant cop . |
26 | I 'm not saying I 'd have been good for him or him for me , but it did provide a link in a chain that was to tie me to glory in the Open . |
27 | Tom Fearon keeps him for me at the livery stables . |
28 | In Necromunda pidgin , with a guttural accent , the giant growled , ‘ Test him for me . |
29 | And if I do n't have quiet now you 'll probably have to get him for me . |
30 | Why not go back and let Charlie get rid of him for me ? |