Example sentences of "[verb] him and [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Especially after Bishop Wishart visited him and announced that Seton was not guilty of any involvement in the King 's death . ’
2 As a working detective , it would take six months of living with a mate to trust him and know that when it came to the Crown Court appearance he would know exactly what to say .
3 So when this came up it was obviously advantageous to have some new tracks for the anthology and so we approached him and asked if he would be interested .
4 When on one occasion a young Indian student approached him and asked if he was T. S. Eliot , he looked up at her in alarm , agreed that he was , and got off the bus .
5 At the morning coffee-break , one of his colleagues approached him and said that he practised acupuncture , and that he would relieve his shoulder tension for him if he wished .
6 Candy , who had a long history of violence , reported that , while he was in Reading on 22 June , an Italian named Mike , whom he knew slightly , approached him and suggested that they rob a shopkeeper in the town .
7 Howard Kendall has fined him and said that it 's all over .
8 She had been ‘ petrified ’ she would lose her boyfriend if she told him and feared if she told her employers , she would lose the job she loved .
9 Not even the fantasy that one of the Tsar 's descendents was preparing to come out and offer himself as a leader within Russia itself , defying the authorities to arrest him and prove that they had n't changed after all .
10 I thereupon obtained from him the name of the solicitor instructed by Randolph , telephoned him and said that my own firm would accept service of the writ .
11 He 'd thought that when Nisodemus had summoned him and asked if there was any paint in the quarry , only now the quarry was being called the New Store .
12 The King thanked him and added that he died a Christian and a member of the Church of England .
13 She thanked him and waited while David invited him in for a cup of tea .
14 She considered approaching him and asking if it might be possible for them to spend more time together , but the difference of nine years in their age put her in awe of him still , and she decided it was not her place to make such suggestions .
15 She grabbed him and hugged and hugged him .
16 On 26th May , Hunt came to see him and said that he was taking over the purchase negotiations for the Downing Street scheme , and particularly upset Pennethorne by producing one of Pennethorne 's drawings to assist him in the work .
17 To Peggy Say , Anderson 's sister , it seemed that some particularly keen sympathy compelled North never to turn down her requests to see him , when all she would do was sit at his desk upbraiding him and complaining and crying ; and when all he could do was repeat , cryptically , infuriatingly , that the government was doing everything it could possibly think of .
18 He met Frank , liked him and agreed that he should have the job .
19 Joe Fitzgerald was so much older and moved in a different circle , and on the few occasions that Sarah had seen him he had shown no interest in her , but she liked him and knew that he enjoyed reading and poetry as much as she did .
20 When the latter siege had ended successfully , Molla Yegan came to Mehmed II to congratulate him and remarked that his prayers had continually been with him .
21 On one of Dr Forman 's visits , she managed to waylay him and ask whether her daughter should see a specialist .
22 I was expecting his camels to follow him and understood that he would not come further before they were in view .
23 The aim , after all , was not to arrest the man but to follow him and see if by that means they could uncover the line which ran back from Mordecai 's shop to the ultimate suppliers of Osman 's money .
24 He said he knew the tablets would not have harmed him and admitted that he had taken them to make his wife see how much he needed her .
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