Example sentences of "[adj] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intervention may be of a befriending nature , offering the person the opportunity to confide , and talk through his emotions , and gently guiding him towards a reassessment of his new position in life without the person he mourns . |
| 2 | When Luke moved her back towards one of the couches , she complied mindlessly , letting him pull her down with him and turning in towards him as he drew her across him , supporting her with one arm while his free hand curved round her , instinct or experience guiding him to the concealed zip of her simple dress . |
| 3 | Joshua 's father , Moishe , the community 's Rabbi , cherished his grandson and would have devoted what was left of his life to guiding him through the intricacies ' of Talmud and Gemara to the Rabbinate if Jacob had shown any vocation . |
| 4 | I say , ‘ Want to try again ? ’ and I rabbit-punch him in the throat . |
| 5 | ‘ Do n't talk rot , ’ said Meredith and , taking him by the arm , frog-marched him along the corridor . |
| 6 | It seemed a little drastic the way they frog-marched him through Casualty and tossed him into the street . |
| 7 | It was further weighed down when German literature seized on the ‘ demonic ’ in Mozart and press-ganged him into its own camp , and by a tendency to put a romantic sheen on performances , which replaced uniformity by even worse distortion . |
| 8 | Lewis was tired , and Waqar off-glided him for two and straight-drove him to the pavilion boundary . |
| 9 | Lewis was tired , and Waqar off-glided him for two and straight-drove him to the pavilion boundary . |
| 10 | As soon as Waite vanished , the trail went cold , because the first thing his kidnappers did was separate him from his briefcase . |
| 11 | To her , as to Edmund , the question of legitimacy is a nuisance to be subverted : When Goneril 's ‘ trusty servant ’ , Oswald , bears a letter from her to Edmund , Regan attempts to corrupt him into giving it to her ( IV.v.20ff . ) . |
| 12 | He even intimated that they had tried to corrupt him by sending female temptresses to seduce him in his Cambridge rooms . |
| 13 | Iain slid away from that , cross-examining him about the details of the electronic equipment . |
| 14 | ‘ Because you thought I 'd been cross-examining him about you ? ’ |
| 15 | Education , except for the sons of lords , was once directed at fitting a man for a job and , cynics would add , unfitting him for life . |
| 16 | Do n't pigeon-hole him as horror , he writes thrillers with paranormal undertones and is going from strength to strength . |
| 17 | The 27-year-old suffered a nasty head wound from an object thrown by the burglar , but caught up with him and rugby-tackled him to the ground . |
| 18 | Wherever he walked , spring came at him with a rush , overwhelming him with sensation . |
| 19 | But like most of his class , he got over that little difficulty by more or less refashioning Him in the guise of an eighteenth-century English gentleman . |
| 20 | But the word backside outraged him to the depths of his soul . |
| 21 | The king , anxious to pay Anselm back for disobliging him on investitures , was also determined to frustrate him . |
| 22 | Wondered as one Sunday in February at our appointed hour , I bearded him in his caravan . |
| 23 | They had not ill-treated him in prison , but the fact that his future had been so very much in danger had had a tremendous influence on his morale . |
| 24 | And after the curtain call , when he was going upstairs to the extras ' dressing-room and had bumped into Mr Potter — she was n't talking at second-hand but had actually witnessed the scene — far from showing remorse he had confronted him as though he was going to head-butt him for the second time . |
| 25 | While I have him by the lapels I head-butt him across the face , to give him something else to think about . |
| 26 | After all , if you happened to be next him after dinner for ten minutes , he would get invaluable hints . |
| 27 | In the next instant , Jimmy had shoulder-charged him from behind . |