Example sentences of "him [conj] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reality Therapy involves confronting the sufferer with the reality of life as perceived by others and helping him or her gradually to change the perception of how life should be so that it comes nearer to how life actually is . |
| 2 | Fearon looked temporarily nonplussed , then shrugged , tossed the towel back into the bathroom behind him where it presumably landed on the floor and growled , ‘ All right , I 'll show you around . |
| 3 | ‘ But you 're still not hitting him where it really hurts . ’ |
| 4 | It came to him that what really troubled him was motive , or rather the lack of what he considered to be a convincing motive for the killing . |
| 5 | I told her we were Baptists and she said she would tell her husband because he thought Gran was an amazing woman having such a large family , but she had told him that we probably belonged to ‘ one of these odd religions ! ’ . |
| 6 | It seems to have escaped him that we already have . |
| 7 | The landowner , Lord Wharncliffe , conscious of the loss of one of Britain 's greatest natural assets , immediately instructed his workmen to reconstruct the lip exactly as it was before , and it is to him that we now owe the sight of Hardraw Force in all its almost-original splendour . |
| 8 | It was a great satisfaction to him that they both did well , Toby at teachers ' training college , and Laura at polytechnic . |
| 9 | It is a source of enormous satisfaction to him that they later came round to his view . |
| 10 | And , if they could show him that they really cared about the Store , he would come out again and put a stop to all these problems and re-establish the Store here , in this green unpleasant land . |
| 11 | Yet if we deny the creature this understanding , which even Clark himself seems to acknowledge , yet insist with him that it nonetheless fears death , then it is in the distinctly paradoxical position of fearing something of which it could not , in any sense , be aware . |
| 12 | The autocratic streak ran so strong in him that he probably did n't even realise he was being high-handed . |
| 13 | However , the side 's leading bowler flatly refutes the story attributed to him that he physically coerced an umpire into granting an lbw decision during a match involving the Maharajah of Patiala . |
| 14 | Walter claims to have journeyed as a student to Nepal ( 'did n't everyone ? ' ) for purification , but Vivien reminds him that he only got as far as Ostend . |
| 15 | In the foyer a gambling room operated , legend having it that the young Alessandro Manzoni was discovered there by Vincenzo Monti and beaten so hard by him that he never gambled again . |
| 16 | Ken once told him that he greatly envied his ‘ Carry On ’ mate Charles Hawtrey . |
| 17 | Many of his friends had laughingly warned him that he now had ‘ double trouble ’ . |
| 18 | He could not be bothered to read anything longer than a single sheet of paper , and even that with great difficulty , and got so bored when any detail was explained to him that he often fell asleep . |
| 19 | His mother had encouraged it , over-indulged him and assured him that he always came first . |
| 20 | It was said of him that he always got the player that a club did n't want to sell , and the Jack transfer was a classic case in point . |
| 21 | The story is resumed where Little Turtle returns to the tortoise , telling him that he still has some angry feelings , even though he has used the turtle response . |
| 22 | Recommended remedy : Try to persuade him to see his doctor and reassure him that you still love him . |
| 23 | I then pointed out to him that I strongly deprecated a dissolution at this moment as I had implicit confidence in him and in the Conservative Party now in power , and I considered that as most countries in Europe , if not in the world , were in a chaotic and indeed dangerous state , it would be a pity if this country were to be plunged into the turmoil of a General Election on a question of domestic policy which will arouse all the old traditional bitterness of the hard fought battles between Protection and Free Trade : also that it was quite possible that his majority might be reduced , or that he might not get a majority at all . |
| 24 | This seemed to me a poor reason for making the announcement and I told him that I strongly disapproved of his breach of trust . |
| 25 | I just told him that I badly needed five hundred pounds . " |
| 26 | I 'm so used to him that I never notice it . |
| 27 | Naturally he was very happy when I was able to tell him that I recently came across a couple of cases of them we did n't know we had . |
| 28 | She told him that she firmly believed he was missing an experience to be treasured . |
| 29 | The custodian told him he had seen ‘ Lady Greensleeves ’ , and warned him that she only visited those in danger . |
| 30 | Joe watched his mother anxiously but she managed to convince him that she often had these little spells , and there was no need to worry . |