Example sentences of "[Wh adv] i [verb] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever I meet him in the village , ’ he said bitterly , ‘ which is not very often , I 'm glad to say , he walks right past me without even raisin' his cap in respect … ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Sometimes when I take him to the local toddler group and watch him playing with the other children , I think it would be great if he could just feel the sand in the sandpit between his toes and know what it 's like to get his hands all messed up with play dough or paint — the things other children take for granted . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | These things I gathered from what Dorothy 's husband Leo told me when I met him in the chemist 's shop one day . |
| 5 | One day when I saw him in the village , he said , ‘ I hear I 've got a son , Ellen , whose name 's Linton ! |
| 6 | I was window-shopping across the road at Tower Records ( good selection , but top price ) when I saw him in the reflection . |
| 7 | ‘ The closest I ever got to any man was when I had him in the sights of the rifle and I never missed . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Well , here we are , ’ Andy says , sitting forward and slapping his hands on his knees , then taking the J when I tap him on the elbow . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | I was afraid long ago , when I hit him in the mouth with that heavy glove , that I might kill him one day . |
| 11 | The man 's cheek is cut from where I caught him with the chain . |