Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [verb] him " in BNC.

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1 I know he 's doing God 's work , but it will break my heart to see him leave ! ’ and she broke down in tears .
2 ‘ The Prince of Wales discovered that I was to be at Broadstairs at this time ; my cooking pleased him , ’ he added simply , ‘ and voilà , he asked for me to cook this banquet too .
3 My resistance surprised him , and he shouted for help .
4 My mistress likes him , but then all the ladies do .
5 He showed that he understood Lisner 's thoughts and encouraged him in his dream ; Lisner wrote to me that ‘ John was excited about my plans … my enthusiasm stimulated him and his own infectious enthusiasm affected me in turn . ’
6 But I 'm happy with my decision to rest him because he has been competing since January , and Ever is an improving horse . ’
7 After all the expected taunts from me that he would not have the nerve and my mum telling him he was crazy , we decided to go along and watch .
8 ‘ Gardening vexeth the spirit , ’ my dad used to say to me with a broad wink whenever my mum asked him to get out and cut the lawn .
9 So you see I could n't fight with them too much cos I thought they 'd take it out on dad , so I said look I do n't want him here , I do n't need all this but I said another thing that got my goat , you asked my mum to help turn my dad , they asked my mum if she could help turn him because they did n't have enough staff or he could n't be turned and when my mum turned him she come out and was sick and cried her eyes out cos he had no skin from the top of his spine to the bottom , and he had a water blister like that Joy yellow on his arm , his penis was nearly the width of my arm pouring with blood , and septic from the catheter , oh and the smell , you 've never smelled nothing like it from the sores and the wounds , cos he was cut from here right the way down to here and they had a , all his legs were festering and gangrene in his legs
10 Yeah my sister saw him .
11 My sister knows him . ’
12 I knew that my presence annoyed him , and if I 'd stop to nurse hurt feelings , I 'd travel home each night on the el , lonely and defeated , in the way one can be on a train .
13 he , he goes , he reckoned that , he reckoned that , that my blanket made him feel worse .
14 She paused , her head bent , ‘ There 's strange , because I 'd made up my mind to tell him to go anyway . ’
15 My heart , to love him ; my will , to do his will , my mind , to glorify him ; my tongue , to speak to him and of him ; my eyes to see him in all things ; my hands to bring whatever they touch to him ; my all only to be a real ‘ all ’ : because it is joined to him .
16 ‘ The extra few days off helped Gough , but it was n't my intention to play him at Aberdeen if the midweek game had been on . ’
17 Then my buddy pointed him out as the crazy maniac making the calls .
18 ‘ I 've seen 'em putting the notices up and goin' round knocking on doors , ’ my assailant told him .
19 My guards shot him . ’
20 I think my guards bribed him to let us pass .
21 ‘ One of my pictures showed him hugging both little girls in the pool .
22 My parents raised him .
23 " My parents know him , though .
24 As no temporary accommodation could be found for him in Štanjel my parents gave him a room in our house ; his family joined him there when we left .
25 ‘ I 'd have to look up his real name ; everybody calls him ‘ Baffetti ’ because of his moustache which in my opinion makes him look just as shifty as he is .
26 I made it my business to get him off . ’
27 ‘ I was thinking about what you were saying , ’ I told her , while memories of Nour flooded my being so that I felt I could n't bear it but must instantly take that gleaming knife and open my body to let him out .
28 My constituents saw him as a responsible Government officer who came to the House to say that the Government washed their hands of the matter and would leave it alone .
29 I used my right to haul him to me , and I use it again to punch his head .
30 I knew his son before my husband killed him . ’
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