Example sentences of "[prep] him [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , ‘ Shall we have coffee first before we have a look around ? ’ he suggested , and Fabia immediately felt warm towards him that it was n't to be a ‘ straight in and out ’ trip . |
| 2 | Then , pulling a large white ashtray towards him so it would be within easy reach , he lit a cigarette . |
| 3 | There will probably be times , when you are at school , that they will be in charge of him so it 's very important they should enjoy this part of his education and development , too . |
| 4 | I needed to fly dead into wind approaching the pilot , but keeping him on my right , and I 'd drop the dinghy slightly upwind of him so it would blow downwind to him . |
| 5 | There 's no way they 're not going to have heard of him so it all depends on how he reacts to the other prisoners , ’ one prison source said . |
| 6 | " His dad tried to knock it out of him but it never made no difference . " |
| 7 | His expression had n't changed , but suddenly she saw an underlying loss and sadness , so much a part of him that it was easy to miss — but once seen , not easy to overlook again . |
| 8 | Right on top of him and it turned round and smacked |
| 9 | Even Moran had to admit it though he dismissed it as well by saying that it would have done well enough for the likes of him as it had been . |
| 10 | I did n't see how I was going to live with the memory of him as it was ; I thought there must be something we could do , just something ; even one friendly lunch together might help . |
| 11 | They had already turned against him when it was revealed he paid a secretary to keep quiet about an affair . |
| 12 | Fearon looked temporarily nonplussed , then shrugged , tossed the towel back into the bathroom behind him where it presumably landed on the floor and growled , ‘ All right , I 'll show you around . |
| 13 | Yet if we deny the creature this understanding , which even Clark himself seems to acknowledge , yet insist with him that it nonetheless fears death , then it is in the distinctly paradoxical position of fearing something of which it could not , in any sense , be aware . |
| 14 | I agree with him that it is important and significant to develop the Western European Union and to have a defence force , but if such a force existed now , would it have gone into Yugoslavia to separate the Serbs and the Croats ? |
| 15 | I was going to say that I was grateful to the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) for raising this issue , because I agree with him that it needs to be properly debated on the Floor of the House . |
| 16 | I do n't know how these boys got in with him but it was him who put them up to all this . |
| 17 | He had taken a bottle of cough mixture with him but it had n't helped much . |
| 18 | There was no kind of animosity at all because we are still friends with him but it was just that his presence did n't do anything dramatic for the group creatively so we asked him to go . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I phoned him from the training ground yesterday and had a row with him because it was embarrassing for Barnet . |
| 20 | She was going to stay with him because it was where she belonged — if he asked . |
| 21 | He ate a large tea and Marjorie played snap with him until it was time for bed . |
| 22 | I rang around and a friend , Roger Gerrett , said they could stay with him until it was safe to return . ’ |
| 23 | It is no longer face to face with him but is integrated with him and it progressively absorbs him . |
| 24 | But Nigel took the cloak home with him and it 's been another string to his bow ever since . |
| 25 | Only later , when she was in love with him and it was too late for common sense to qualify her feelings , did she learn more about him . |
| 26 | He captured the citadel but he only had a few troops with him and it was clear he could n't hold it for long , so he pushed on east past Excideuil into the Limousin , driving straight into the heartland of the rebel cause and devastating the country as he went . |
| 27 | In that look she saw her life with him and it was a decent life : the small farm in high northern fell-land , the farm coming in part or in whole to him , several children , heavy days , quiet times , a life she often yearned for — a plain and ordinary life away from this coddled valley , a place in which she could start again . |
| 28 | She has put off the meeting with him and it is not surprising that the two different characters clash . |
| 29 | Press reporting focused as much on the reports about other women who had had sex with him as it did on the events to which he pleaded guilty . |
| 30 | Only a short time ago she had been as physically intimate with him as it was possible for a man and woman to be . |