Example sentences of "him [coord] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as the child stops misbehaving the parent can attend to him or her again . |
| 2 | Give a dog ( so to speak ) a bad name , treat him or her accordingly — by having a confrontation or using a suspicious manner — and we are quite likely to trigger a hostile , resentful reaction that confirms our original opinion . |
| 3 | If the Profitboss fails to please a customer today , he 'll succeed in pleasing him or her tomorrow . |
| 4 | A profession tends to have few members , each member possessing esoteric knowledge which sets him or her apart from their peers . |
| 5 | How else is the good reader to establish what is good for him or her individually ? |
| 6 | Your bank manager can be very helpful ; certainly you should tell him or her immediately what 's happened . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Alternatively , the solicitor may accompany the client to the hearing and advise him or her orally as a McKenzie adviser in the course of the hearing . |
| 9 | Anyone who publishes a statement , which reflects adversely upon the conduct by a local authority of its affairs , risks liability to any individual councillor or officer of the authority who can prove that the publication defames him or her personally . |
| 10 | I have already mentioned my contempt for those who do n't say hello on hills , so as this soul was alone I prepared to greet him or her heartily . |
| 11 | Moreover , feelings lying dormant will have already produced an individual who is troubled , unhappy and anxious , and the individuals behaviour will already be moving him or her inexorably deeper into emotional and social despair . |
| 12 | So it behoves the healthy eater to assess the Indian menu for the best options , since chances are circumstances , friends and hunger will take him or her there sooner rather than later ! |
| 13 | Looking back , it seemed to Freddie that she had simply wanted him and him alone — as he had wanted her . |
| 14 | But it is absurd to suppose that every power which is conferred on the political head of a department must be exercised by him and him alone . |
| 15 | determination under a contract between two parties owes a duty of care to both those parties , because both will rely on him and him alone to get the determination right , if for no other reason than that they will be bound by it . |
| 16 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
| 17 | He said that we admire Matisse much more than we know him and I really think that is still true . |
| 18 | Certainly , just a little low ‘ g ’ on the approach would have made things very difficult for him and I often wonder exactly what happened . |
| 19 | They never found him and I often wondered whether he went in with his machine and dead gunner or whether he managed to bale out and was picked up by the flyingboat they had stationed in Sicily for sea rescue work . ’ |
| 20 | Benjamin eased by him and I reluctantly followed . |
| 21 | I liked him when I met him and I still like him now . |
| 22 | For the last two days I 've refused to listen to him and I still think he 's out of his senses . |
| 23 | I believed him and I still do . |
| 24 | He said now he 's telling everybody he said that er I ai n't ever paid him and I still owe him the money . |
| 25 | Perhaps she knew it was him and she deliberately was n't answering . |
| 26 | He had this way of drawing her to him and she always seemed to go . |
| 27 | Her eyes flickered towards him and she playfully stuck out her tongue . |
| 28 | The truth was , of course , that hard-nosed journalist though she was , Margie was as attracted to Hugo as was almost every other woman who met him and she actually wanted him to like her . |
| 29 | So she came back to London and married the man I called my father , but she never really cared for him and she still saw this other man sometimes when he came to London on business . |
| 30 | But after this our sympathy is beginning to be restored as things start to go wrong for him and he practically redeems . |