Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice , there might be situations of doubt ; a man might claim that there was nothing to alert him to the girl 's age ( e.g. a 15-year-old girl , who looks much older , soliciting in a street with other prostitutes ) . |
| 2 | I was anxious to settle the terms of the contract with M. Chaillot and , because I wanted to avoid being cornered by him in Passy , I suggested to Jean-Claude that he make an appointment for me to see him at the radio , mid-morning , on a date when I had a luncheon appointment . |
| 3 | And Dr Carrington had particularly asked me to disconnect him from the ventilator . |
| 4 | The point dogs catch him and one of them nips him on the leg — take that for being more popular with the boss . |
| 5 | Crilly tells me to meet him at the Hope and Vixen in half an hour . |
| 6 | He tells me to meet him at the magistrates ' court the following morning , tells me to keep away from the scumbags . |
| 7 | ‘ It told me to meet him by the Princess Alice in Forest Gate , ’ he recalls . |
| 8 | A similar reason was given for refusing the remedy to a convicted prisoner who brought an action against the Home Secretary and the prison governor requiring them to provide him with the necessary medical treatment in accordance with the Prison Rules . |
| 9 | I asked him about the disrepair of the buildings . |
| 10 | It was an easy entry into conversation and , after going through the statistics dear to a teacher 's heart ( hours per week - twenty-five : pupils in a class — thirty ) , I asked him about the problems of teaching Spanish here . |
| 11 | When I asked him about the Galapagos T-shirt he was wearing , he merely snapped , ‘ No , I have n't been . |
| 12 | I asked him about the meatless days which the man at Amsterdam had mentioned . |
| 13 | I asked him about the girls and he told me to offer them drinks , talk to them , spend 1,000 francs on them , and I would be away . |
| 14 | When I asked him about the college he volunteered only that it was an experimental community of researchers and students — ‘ the kind of imaginative endeavour you will find only in the States . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I asked him about the Lady Eleanor and he replied : ‘ She is near to death , a fall , an accident . |
| 16 | But for Ilsa 's sake I asked him about the gleaming star and discs on their rainbowed ribbons and he became almost talkative . |
| 17 | I asked him after the event what he thought . |
| 18 | I felt like a jaded casting director as I banished him to the wastepaper bin . |
| 19 | We wotchered each other as I led him across the road . |
| 20 | I led him into the billiard room where I stoked the fire while he sat down in one of the leather chairs and began to remove his shoes . |
| 21 | She said , ‘ I led him into the chapel of the Madonna , just like you told me . |
| 22 | ‘ I speak with Michael Odell inside ten minutes , or I raise him on the open line , ’ said Quinn carefully . |
| 23 | I met him during the summer vac . |
| 24 | He 's here all right — I met him on the shore two nights ago . |
| 25 | As Brian Clough told me when I met him on the top of the Little Elm bus earlier this season — we were both going to check out Little Elm Intaflora 's young Dutch forward , Kylie Van Der Graaf — ‘ Sadly , young man , football is like a football . ’ |
| 26 | Then I nearly fell over when Hywel walked in because I met him on the mountain and he gave me the eye . ’ |
| 27 | I met him for the first time ever when he took over the leadership of the party from the recently deceased Hugh Gaitskell in February 1963 . |
| 28 | I met him at the Labour Club . |
| 29 | ‘ My name is Lockwood , ’ I said , when I met him at the gate to his house . |
| 30 | Once when we were both contributing to The Year 's Work in English Studies ( he on Renaissance drama ) , I met him in the library and expressed anxiety about the deadline . |