Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] him [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing for him to say . |
| 2 | He pulled the door to behind him — he was reasonably certain there was nothing for him to see in the engine-room anyway — and stooped to examine the three dead men . |
| 3 | But there was nothing for him to see . |
| 4 | It was nothing for him to take the ball off them and stick the knife in it to burst it . ’ |
| 5 | He longed to do some real work that would give him some satisfaction at the end of a day , yet there seemed to be nothing for him to do . |
| 6 | There appeared to be nothing for him to do but make his way back to the Inn on the Point , collect his own belongings and return to London . |
| 7 | There was nothing for him to do now until Kynaston had finished . |
| 8 | There was nothing for him to do except settle down to some work . |
| 9 | There 's nothing for him to do , is there ? |
| 10 | There was nothing for him to do but play cards , which was allowed . |
| 11 | She 'd reassure him over and over that she was fine , she was safe , there was nothing for him to worry about , and Ashdown would then ring Joe and pass along anything new or helpful that he 'd been able to pick out of the conversation . |
| 12 | His second came at the ticket booth , where there was no-one for him to show his first-class ticket to . |
| 13 | I washed them trainers our Johnny given me and I cleaned them for him to try and save and then them black shoes for school to save his boots for the |
| 14 | He looks , sounds and acts youthful , and it is a great shame when someone like him decides to retire absurdly early . |
| 15 | He says he was very nervous and had to pluck up courage because it 's so unusual for someone like him to register . |
| 16 | Shall I to him make know as yet my change and give him to partake full happiness with me ? |
| 17 | Patrick had once remarked that if Joe were to pack his bags and walk out , there would be nothing of him left behind , no hint , no trace . |
| 18 | In his opinion , the theory of civics , in whatever form it was taught , was useless without a real social context , which for him meant the practice of ‘ work ’ , in all its senses . |
| 19 | It was in ‘ the epic vein' which for him meant a long rhyming poem about knights in armour . |
| 20 | ‘ Very little , I imagine , ’ said the Captain irritably , ‘ and he would n't have got it , either , but he was going to lose his grazing rights , which for him meant he was going to lose everything . ’ |
| 21 | Not all writers , however , thought in national terms ; the distinguished canon lawyer William Lyndwood was not prepared to identify patria with regnum , and instead thought of it as equivalent to regio , which for him meant the province of Canterbury ( 27 , p.172a ) . |
| 22 | There was always plenty for him to do . |
| 23 | Later at the buffet lunch in the marquee he barged to the front of the queue saying , ‘ Oh , I do n't believe in queuing ! ’ and when somebody behind him objected , convinced her with a sort of apologetic bashfulness that actually he has diabetes , you see , and so needs to eat right now . |
| 24 | Carlos and Francisco chatted to them for a while , but then Carlos had to patrol his area , which to him meant strolling around , able to approach and compliment all the prettiest girls , and subsequently trying to fit them into his tight evening schedule ! |
| 25 | Time after time he overtook in the face of oncoming traffic then braked heavily as he forced the car into a small gap causing everyone behind him to brake amidst the clouds of exhaust smoke from his obviously tired old engine . |
| 26 | Everything people said about Kelly was supposition , nothing against him had ever been proved and in this country you were innocent until proven guilty . |
| 27 | Auxilliary nurses do not go on any courses so there were none for him to take . |
| 28 | This deficiency he shared with a whole crew of leaders of third-world or so-called ‘ non-aligned ’ countries , who like him had gained power because they were against foreign rulers , not because they had any idea of what to put in place of foreign rule . |
| 29 | The real pioneer of the Italian monodic style in Germany was one of his pupils , Johann Nauwach ( c. 1595–c. 1630 ) , who like him had spent some years in Italy . |
| 30 | Jamie Hill , defending , said Glorney 's marriage had broken down and his despair manifested itself in him turning to drink and committing offences . |