Example sentences of "him [conj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In I gave the book to him or I gave him the book , him would normally be considered thematic in FSP theory . |
| 2 | Nonetheless , the absence of labourers is more apparent than real : the local practice of not assessing goods of less value than £2 did not mean that any personal property owned by people of the labouring sort was generally ignored , for a good many men later taxed on wages owned goods worth anything up to £10 in 1522 , which ( unless perhaps having disposed of , say , a beast or two ) they managed to conceal from the taxman and convince him that they had nothing but the minimum in wages . |
| 3 | He subsequently served as its legal adviser , and it is thanks to him that it obtained its Light Railway Order and was enabled to operate under a lease agreement until purchase negotiations were concluded . |
| 4 | Another experience was when he was praying before the crucifix in San Damiano and it seemed to him that it gave him the message , " Build my church " , which he immediately interpreted quite literally as , " Save this church from crumbling into ruins " . |
| 5 | His doctor had checked him out , told him that he had nothing to worry about . |
| 6 | It was n't until she got within a few yards of him that he realized it was Maisie . |
| 7 | He asked about several crimes of violence that had happened in south-east Antrim and Beattie told him that he knew nothing about any of them . |
| 8 | He was brought up in an atmosphere of churchmanship , his revered father being a prominent layman who devoted his life to the reunification of the Anglican with the Roman church , and it was perhaps through him that he acquired what seems to have been an unconscious appreciation of the utility of goodness in public life ; one notes in his writings a tendency to equate prayer with will . |
| 9 | He was formidable , laconic , self-disciplined , earnest but not humourless , and it was said of him that he did everything with a kind of good-natured fury . |
| 10 | Even trying to shield herself from him , she could feel that void in him that he wanted her to fill . |
| 11 | It was only after she called him that he telephoned her . |
| 12 | ‘ I suppose it was because you had such respect for him that you felt you could leave him in charge of the boarders tonight ? ’ |
| 13 | You did n't tell him that I got my |
| 14 | ‘ So I suddenly told him that I wished I had a son . |
| 15 | I answered him with lies , happy that he was so interested after I 'd been certain that he 'd never say a word to me : I told him that I grew it myself , my family grew it , and it was everywhere like green grass and empty milk bottles in London ; it was really amazing hashish. wherever I threw its seeds it sprang up like flames leaping into the air . |
| 16 | she say that , and she say that and she 's always writing your name over the books and everything , okay , oh yeah , you must ask him if he fancies me and love him and ask him why he do n't he phone me that often , ask him that , you must say , right yeah , but do n't tell him that I told you to ask him , yeah |
| 17 | I had been horrified at his scarecrow appearance when I first saw him at the clinic , and when I met him by chance in Tala-Tala I felt so sorry for him that I asked him if he would like to come for dinner . |
| 18 | I told him that I thought he was much too gentle in his handling of the miners and the owners , and especially the latter , and that there were a lot of things he ought to have said . |
| 19 | They were to tell him that I loved him … |
| 20 | Maybe it was her way of telling him that she knew he was lying . |
| 21 | She felt like running round to his villa right now , in the middle of the night , banging on the door , screaming jealous , incoherent orders at him that she knew he would not obey . |
| 22 | Margrida 's absence would enable her to tell him that she wished him to cut down on the pretending — and on his caresses . |
| 23 | What would he say if she told him that she fought him because she was afraid that if she did n't she would fall in love with him ? |
| 24 | It was on the tip of her tongue to tell him that she thought she 'd seen Amy on Friday night . |
| 25 | And even crazier to have told him that she loved him . |
| 26 | She wanted to tell him that she loved him , but they were words she had never spoken to anyone . |
| 27 | Still she could not bring herself to touch him , until , turning his head , she saw the scar , and without thinking leaned forward to kiss that , a butterfly kiss like his , to show him that she loved him — and his scar . |
| 28 | ‘ His parents were too poor to keep him so they lent him to a forester . |
| 29 | He claimed that Mr Maltby lunged at him so he punched him , knocking him to the ground . |
| 30 | The story continues with an account of how the next day when he started to get upset Little Turtle remembered what the tortoise had told him so he closed his eyes , pulled in his arms close to his body , put his head down so his chin rested against his chest , and rested for a while , until he knew what to do . |