Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] him [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 Her smile seemed to him to have been almost aloof , perhaps even disapproving .
2 He did n't sound in the least sorry , and she held her breath waiting for him to continue .
3 Hearn rang him at his home to plead with him to change his mind but Benn just snapped : ‘ I 'm not coming . ’
4 His wife whispered to him to go on stage .
5 His real interests , however , increasingly came to lie in science and eventually his father paid for him to attend University College London , where he studied chemistry .
6 She took to following him in her car , being willing to sit for hours outside his house waiting for him to come out and then trailing and following him until he came home again .
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