pronoun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sb's nerve fails (him/her) (= someone suddenly loses the courage or confidence to do something )
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At the last moment, her nerve failed her.
turned him down (= refused his offer of marriage )
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Josie’s already turned him down .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
God help him/them etc
God help you/him etc
God help you/him etc
I don't blame you/you can hardly blame him etc
I'd like to see you/him do sth
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But I 'd like to see you again, when we can make time.
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I 'd like to see him again.
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I 'd like to see you give our boys a run for their money.
I'll show him/them etc
as fast as his/her legs could carry him/her
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She ran to her mother as fast as her legs could carry her.
bless (him/her etc)
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Hence, the blessing of bread on her feast day.
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I will bless those who bless you and whoever curses you, I will curse.
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Orphism, as the other Hellenistic mystery religions, claimed to teach its adepts the means of securing a blessed immortality.
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Riggs said Clinton administration representatives agreed to the further funding restriction in return for congressional leaders' blessing of the spending bill.
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So much undervalued this fish and yet St Peter himself has blessed it with his thumb-mark.
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Such a prestigious credit was something of a mixed blessing .
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Suddenly the door bell rang and she blessed that she'd blissed the afternoon away.
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They love every minute of it, too, bless their hearts particularly the scandals.
bully for you/him etc
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A: Then bully for you and bully for them, though I suspect you're lying.
coming from him/her/you etc
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As I couldn't work out where they were coming from I ignored them.
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But all the intensity is coming from her.
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But I never expected the reaction it got coming from me.
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Coast Guard helicopters flying over the barge noticed an oil sheen coming from it, DeVillars said.
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Maybe these intimate stories, coming from some one she hardly knew, had overwhelmed her.
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That coming from him who would go sick with a bad back whenever a job tired him.
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That was rich coming from him!
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The little girl coming from her direction offers the other, much thinner one, a bowl filled with bread and fruit.
confound it/him/them etc
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And if Callie confuses them, Mona confounds them.
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Hell and the devil confound it, this was his home!
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Placed there to confront and confound him.
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She summons Deronda and pours out her desire to be what he wants, her inarticulate misery confounding him.
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Use their expectations and then confound them.
don't mind her/him etc
good luck to him/them etc
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All I say is: good luck to him.
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And all good luck to him.
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Big women can be as fit as anyone else and if so, good luck to them.
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If they start talking high teens, good luck to them.
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In which case, good luck to them both.
hark at him/her/you!
let him/her/them etc
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He would not rush the boy, he had to let him come to him.
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I also owed Maggie the courtesy of letting her know I didn't need her to do my legwork any longer.
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I had once made the mistake of letting him do this.
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I stood there, thinking to myself, Okay just let him wear himself out.
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Of course, Kate could have shrugged and let him stew in his own juice, or lack of it.
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Then let her do it for the Junior League.
more fool you/him etc
rather you/him/her/them than me
sb doesn't have much meat on him/her
screw you/him etc
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They screwed him at least once and he knows it.
shame on you/him/them etc
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And if you haven't heard of Gus then shame on you!
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Fool me once, shame on you, the saying goes.
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If you fail to negotiate, shame on you.
that's rich (coming from him/you etc)
trust you/him/them etc (to do sth)!
you can tell him from me
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I took him to lunch yesterday.
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She's in love with him .