Example sentences of "him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Xishe 's wife is allowed to see him for 45 minutes twice a year . |
| 2 | The young woman remembers how her mother would leave home at 5am day after day , and wait in the Marmoura forest near where the King used to play golf in an effort to plead with him for her husband 's life . |
| 3 | We have liked him for being into free speech and free love , and for what he has to say about convergences of the two , and about the curbs which revolution and its regimes has placed on them . |
| 4 | He labours scornfully for this Simon Giles , faintly comforted by a corner in Classical studies which has been granted him for reasons to do with the firm 's image . |
| 5 | ‘ She was going to have him all to herself for at least three years , probably more like five , and a part of him for ever … ’ . |
| 6 | I 'll cut him up small and fry him for the kids ' breakfast . |
| 7 | Had n't thought about him for years . |
| 8 | If you 've got some new material on him that you want to share with us , I 'm more than happy to arrange another lecture for you later in the term , but frankly , as you 've apparently given the same lecture on him for the past ten years , I can hardly be accused of interfering with academic freedom , can I ? ’ |
| 9 | She ignored Francis 's frankly suggestive eyebrows — damn him for knowing her ! |
| 10 | I even meet him for dinner from time to time . |
| 11 | Cameron looked steadily at him for a while until Stewart turned his head with a little toss and swallowed down his wine . |
| 12 | He had been pestering him for a while for stories about the grandparents he had never known . |
| 13 | It was too much but she loved him for it and let him kiss her when he came and stood beside her again . |
| 14 | When Jamie came in with the food at gloaming , Cameron asked him for another blanket . |
| 15 | Little wonder that they were so fresh in her mind ; creating a very powerful effect on his mind and unconscious , musically and rhythmically , that would remain with him for life . |
| 16 | They may not have enthused him for their particular brand of political idealism , but they certainly sowed seeds of great potential musically . |
| 17 | The responsibility was going to haunt him for years to come . |
| 18 | It would indeed hound him for ever , and inspire the many references in dialogue to his father which we shall encounter , and his ambiguous sense of direction and self-fulfilment . |
| 19 | A manuscript of poems was assembled by him for the Professor to view ; the intention being ( and Dudek was very well experienced in this sort of work ) for him to take the matter over and see it through to publication . |
| 20 | In November 1959 he found himself back in Montreal , ‘ to renew his neurotic affiliations ’ as he was to repeat endlessly to journalists ; meeting his friends and family , sometimes bumping into his uncles who would take him for expensive meals at top restaurants — such as the Ritz — and hotels ; and generally awakening and reawakening those impulses and memories which would fire his imagination and energise his mind for months to come . |
| 21 | I looked up the name of my shop steward — Chris Pike — in a recent union bulletin , wrote to him for further information and he invited me up to the Branch Office . |
| 22 | In the Phaedo , Socrates praises Anaxagoras for saying that the world must be explained by reference to mind , and then criticizes him for not acting on the principle that he recommends . |
| 23 | I tried to tell him that I did n't blame him for deflowering me but he was n't listening . |
| 24 | Eleanor used to say that she inherited her father 's nose and she would one day sue him for damages . |
| 25 | If your fuel bill debt is in the name of your landlord , and you pay him for your electricity or gas , you should let your fuel supplier and local council know this is the case . |
| 26 | Also ask him for the telephone number of the Home Service Adviser for your area , in case you need further advice . |
| 27 | ‘ The first time I took him for a walk without a harness , he had a bit of a job to work that out as well . |
| 28 | His friend Razumikhin , a truthful witness , has known him for eighteen months . |
| 29 | He commends him for the wit and wisdom of things he has n't said . |
| 30 | For Prothero is the demon-king of the Poundian pantomime , ever since Pound cast him for this role by printing , at the end of his essay on De Gourmont — originally in the Little Review , then in Instigations ( 1920 ) — the letter which Prothero wrote him in October 1914 : |