Example sentences of "him [conj] [pron] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your hospitalization is sudden , say , you are struck down with appendicitis at work , ask your work colleagues to telephone the neighbour who keeps your spare key and ask him or her to check that your home is all right , look after your pet or take your pet to a local kennels or vet to be looked after , water your plants , and generally keep an eye on things . |
| 2 | To allow the primary sufferer to wake up in yesterday 's clothes , reeking of vomit , may seem unkind and unpleasant but it is a good way of getting through the denial system which might otherwise lead him or her to think that a lot of fuss was being made over nothing . |
| 3 | When many of these are taken by one person it is still useful for him or her to ensure that the separate responsibilities are kept in balance — and essential if the work is to be of use to other teachers . |
| 4 | Even if the insurance market allows that to continue to the same extent , it will be small compensation to the director who abdicated in the first place an increasing responsibility to him or herself to ensure that necessary controls and preventive measure were in place to prevent a risk turning into a reality . |
| 5 | I told him that we had but that we 'd talked about it with them and now things seemed all right . |
| 6 | She saw Penry 's eyes on the silver brooch on her shoulder , knew he was remembering their time together on the island , and for a moment she was tempted to throw herself into his arms , to assure him that nothing mattered as long as he loved her , Leonora Fox , not Melanie . |
| 7 | I too , as one who is not a Christian , might well say of him that he knew and loved God . |
| 8 | It was only when he felt her going limp against him that he stopped and lifted his head . |
| 9 | Assure him that you understand that this is very important to him and immediately ask the nurse in charge of the ward to deal with the patient 's queries . |
| 10 | And if it does n't seem to be there ask Phil because , you know that is that only by asking him that I discovered that these worked last week . |
| 11 | I have told him that I agree that the way in which the region originally proposed to use car ownership raises some questions that have not yet been answered . |
| 12 | Pressing his hand against her bosom or kissing his fingers softly and reverently , she told him that she knew and had always known that only she could make him happy , that there was already a mystical bond between them and that if she could not soon feel his arms about her and his lips upon her own , she would sink away into despair . |
| 13 | He thought they wanted to talk to him so he stopped and got out . |
| 14 | Helen touched Tony 's arm and looked pleadingly at him so he turned and shook hands with Frank then turned back immediately to Terry . |
| 15 | Then she ran to find Ferdinando to tell him and they embraced and it was he who said , ‘ She is an angel ! ’ of Mrs Browning and Wilson realised she had expressed not a word of gratitude . |
| 16 | I was told stories about him and I know that he was pretty much a hellraiser , but when I knew him he was just a really nice guy . |
| 17 | I mean it was tough , life was tough for him and I know that he faced quite a lot of comments both of racist and other other things . |
| 18 | Erm that we had no alternative to do what we did er that C I D officers would speak to him and I believe that he would better understand er wh why we have done what we did er and I assured him that the damage to his door will would be repaired . |
| 19 | And erm she was like with him and she said and she said something like , Oh I 'm going . |
| 20 | Oh only a couple of weeks , no they were standing in the common room and she knew he was a virgin right and they were still going out and she knew he was a virgin when they first started going out and Rox goes oh so are you a virgin then erm erm James and he goes no and she was still going out with him and she knew that it was n't with her , obviously , and , and Roxy goes oh who was it then and he goes oh just two , two birds I met in erm Portugal and |
| 21 | ‘ All right ? ’ he asked as she came up beside him and she replied that she was , thank you . |
| 22 | He was grinning wryly , his voice sardonic ; then , as he finished the remark , a little jolt of pleasure hit him and he saw that he was absolutely right : she had . |
| 23 | He loved it that we had christened him and he knew that he was special to us . |
| 24 | He was sure , too , that she had believed him and he knew that the reason for this was that the story he had concocted was so very unlikely that no liar could possibly have put his faith in it . |
| 25 | He 's , he 's from our village him , he writes to him and he goes and visits him . |
| 26 | She turned round to face him and he thought that she had been crying . |
| 27 | When they got to the hospital she opened her brown leather bag to pay him and he noticed that , as well as the English money , she had some funny-looking foreign notes in her wallet . |
| 28 | So so when he 'd done it he said well two hundred and fifty quid I heard him and he said but I suppose you know the of it oh I do n't know and he said why did n't you do it ? |
| 29 | Sometimes the effort overwhelmed him and he failed and gave up . |
| 30 | Let's see if he does , he comes Chapel now , to bowl to him and he hoicks that away on that leg side , that 's the area you 're gon na try and hit it , that 's four runs , anywhere near it , so making intentions plain , he 's going for that leg side boundary , that was a real power shot , hit with a spin , this is exactly the way he played at Hove , he got away with it there , he moves on to twelve , I think there 's going to be a field change as a result of that and quite rightly so . |