Example sentences of "[adv] i [vb past] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't think of a good reason why not so I ushered him towards the stairs and told him I lived in Flat 3 . |
| 2 | Over a cup of tea in the departure lounge he asked about the red rose I had placed by the wall , and so I told him of the red , white and blue wreath at Bayeux , of the other red roses on the graves of the crew , and of the ‘ Peace ’ rose which we had brought from England . |
| 3 | Leslie did not want me to go with him to the station , and so I watched him from the hotel-room window , his jaunty walk bravely exaggerated . |
| 4 | Later I heard him in the bathroom . ’ |
| 5 | I met him at Aunt Alicia 's because he rented half the house , and then I helped him with the horses . |
| 6 | And then I lost him among the boulders and small trees that marked the course of the torrent . |
| 7 | Sometimes I joined him in the school room . |
| 8 | As Brian Clough told me when I met him on the top of the Little Elm bus earlier this season — we were both going to check out Little Elm Intaflora 's young Dutch forward , Kylie Van Der Graaf — ‘ Sadly , young man , football is like a football . ’ |
| 9 | These things I gathered from what Dorothy 's husband Leo told me when I met him in the chemist 's shop one day . |
| 10 | One day when I saw him in the village , he said , ‘ I hear I 've got a son , Ellen , whose name 's Linton ! |
| 11 | I was window-shopping across the road at Tower Records ( good selection , but top price ) when I saw him in the reflection . |
| 12 | ‘ The closest I ever got to any man was when I had him in the sights of the rifle and I never missed . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Twenty-four years old he was when I found him in the provost 's prison in Paris , and paid his fine to get him for my own , him and that foster-brother of his whom you know well . ’ |
| 14 | I was afraid long ago , when I hit him in the mouth with that heavy glove , that I might kill him one day . |
| 15 | The man 's cheek is cut from where I caught him with the chain . |