Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] him [art] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ All it tells us is he must 've had a foreign accent for them to give him a name like that .
2 The two of them leapt out of the beached cockboat and strode up past the fishwives , some of whom gave him a " good day " but most of whom preserved a surly silence .
3 In its final moments a sophisticated urbane man in a nightclub is led discreetly through a back door into a room which is a mortuary run by nuns , one of whom shows him a dead body drawn out of a wall on a slab .
4 His clever course management in the wake of continuous swing problems had made Olazabal a huge favourite with the Sun City galleries , many of whom rated him the superior of Seve Ballesteros , a two-time winner of the event .
5 One of them asked him a question .
6 He went to the top eight accountancy firms in London , all of which offered him a job .
7 Obsessional neurosis is shown in the patient 's being occupied with thoughts in which he is in fact not interested , in his being aware of impulses which appear very strange to him and his being led to actions the performance of which give him no enjoyment but which it is quite impossible for him to omit .
8 The receipt a person of a share of the profits of a business is prima facie evidence that he is a partner in the business but the receipt of such a share , or of a payment contingent on or varying with the profits of a business , does not of itself make him a partner in the business .
9 Take the case of She gave him a piece of her mind .
10 Just as he was leaving the roof there was a crack which stung his eardrums and the flagpole , struck near the base by a round shot , came down on top of him dealing him a painful blow on the shoulder .
11 Of no mean magnetism himself — Lawrence thought highly enough of him to make him the recipient of some of his most excruciating introspections — Curtis was the inspirational force of that curious organization , the Round Table , in whose journal of the same name Lawrence published his article on the new imperialism in the Middle East .
12 If , by any chance , you have a way of passing on messages to Frank ( via the supporters club maybe ) — Im sure all of us wish him the best … and hope to see him back here at Leeds in a few years so he can be 1st choice .
13 Contact with her brought him a brief feeling of reality .
14 And as her body and limbs thrummed in the dizzy afterflow Fernando deepened his penetration , shuddering against her till she clung to him , grinding herself under him to give him the ultimate pleasure , to enhance every thrust he pounded into her , to draw him hard down into her power and her love .
15 Just for a moment she let her hand linger on his sleeve , then slowly withdrew it , wondering if she was glad or sorry that he had given her such an insight into what made him the man he was today .
16 Everything about him makes him a tricky subject .
17 He was on his bike six kids jumped him and said give us your bike they , they took his bike off him gave him a hammering right on the nose , broke his nose .
18 In the end I dropped in on Oliver Craddock , just out of curiosity , and he saw everything without my telling him a word . ’
19 It 's up to you to give him the visual reference material from which he can start planning his camera angles , his cast positionings , etc . ’
20 But he says to he phoned him the other day on my down this morning ha so just to say , you know , that was crime of the century !
21 It was still there , though , and looking at it gave him a shock .
22 Would it be possible for us to send him a copy of 4 Gardens as a gesture of goodwill ?
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