Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] him [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's why I asked for him rather than his partner who is , so I 've been told , both charming and susceptible . ’ |
| 2 | This is clear from words which Mercadier himself dictated in 1196 : " I fought for him strenuously and loyally . |
| 3 | I hear from him regularly but it 's not the same as holding them to you . |
| 4 | I saw in him again that curious crumbling , a moral crumbling that was evident when he spoke again , almost in a whining tone . |
| 5 | I looked at him helplessly and he vowed to return at ten . |
| 6 | I looked at him closely and I think he 's probably a vet . |
| 7 | I spoke to him afterwards and apologized for the crowd , as if it was my fault ! |
| 8 | She turns towards him briefly and she smiles , her famous smile piercing him . |
| 9 | I ask you to break that pledge you made with him so that he may marry me , the mother of his children . ’ |
| 10 | Hosanna started to smell the debris where she had put it on the marble top of the kitchen dresser and she shouted at him so that he darted out into the yard . |
| 11 | Shocked into immobility , her heart racing with suffocating speed , she gaped at him stupidly as he added , ‘ Welcome to the Ca ’ del Leone . ’ |
| 12 | He gasped , winded , and she twisted off him quickly and sat up , legs drawn up to her chest , chewing her wet knee . |
| 13 | ‘ Every time Subotica looked to have her beaten she came at him again and it was only in the last two strides that she lost . |
| 14 | Do you whore for him rather than for Matilda ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ What do you see in him now that you did n't see before ? ’ |
| 16 | She turned from him now and ran to the door and up the back stairs . |
| 17 | She turned from him now and looked towards the house door where Millie was standing . |
| 18 | She glanced at him quickly and saw that he did indeed look tired . |
| 19 | She beckoned to him mysteriously and he went up to her . |
| 20 | That thing where erm she , she worked for him so that |
| 21 | It seemed to her a happy coincidence that Robert ( she thought of him now as Robert ) should write inviting her to Yorkshire for the weekend . |
| 22 | Smiles came from within , they were n't just a facial movement , and she stared at him assessingly as she wondered how she could have been such a fool . |
| 23 | She stared after him mutinously as he went from the room , willing him to bump his head as he went through the door , but to her disappointment Dr Penry Vaughan ducked his tall head with the grace and dexterity of long practice . |
| 24 | When the man bristled , she looked at him imploringly and he threw up his hands in a tirade of explosive Italian . |
| 25 | She looked at him wordlessly while wondering how to express the questions seething about in her mind , and at last she gathered sufficient courage to ask , ‘ Are there no women in your life , Silas ? ’ |
| 26 | She looked at him again but this time there was no smile on her face . |
| 27 | She looked at him again and saw this time that he was watching her . |
| 28 | She looked at him again as he executed a slower turn , wobbling but upright . |
| 29 | She looked at him doubtfully and he added , with an odd little spurt of irritation , ‘ You really believe your grandmother was wonderful , do n't you ? ’ |
| 30 | She looked at him askance and opened her mouth to ask a question . |