Example sentences of "[pers pn] [coord] [verb] he [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Isobel stared at him , then laughed , drew her arm through his and pulled him towards the door . |
| 2 | Yet again , looking at this urbane relaxed figure seated opposite me and comparing him with the romantic figures of Spender and others or with the scruffy Auden , I found it difficult to believe that he was a poet and not rather some worldly and successful company director . |
| 3 | ‘ Andrew had his defences down as Waterworth came across in front of me and hit him in the mouth and knocked his head on the floor . |
| 4 | Yeltsin had said at a press conference after the Alma Ata meeting that " we do not want to follow the tradition which has taken shape since 1917 of burying each [ former ] head and leader of the state and subsequently reburying him or regarding him as a criminal " . |
| 5 | Zacchaeus became reconciled to God because Jesus , instead of ignoring him or treating him like an outcast , had deliberately gone out of his way to meet and befriend him . |
| 6 | Albert Tailors , in the shape of old Mr Albert himself , took one look at him and channelled him to the Teens Room , which was festooned with guitars and pictures of pop singers . |
| 7 | Even as he hacked his way free more tentacles looped around him and dragged him into the filth . |
| 8 | Of course , at last a train got him and killed him in a horrible way . |
| 9 | Two men attacked him and forced him from the bike . |
| 10 | The gang pounced on him and knocked him to the ground — but he curled up into a ball to save himself as punches and kicks rained down . |
| 11 | They tried to grab the cash from him and knocked him to the ground . |
| 12 | The vicar says that a young Larusa , Masai after all , has stabbed him and beaten him with a stick and the whole town is talking about it . |
| 13 | Harry Carpenter came up to interview him and asked him about the last putt . |
| 14 | Dad was told how naughty James had been and then shouted at him and sent him to the bedroom . |
| 15 | Juliet hugged him and sent him into the garden . |
| 16 | ‘ He was yelling out in terror and must have run 50 yards before two blokes caught him and rolled him about the pavement to put the flames out . ’ |
| 17 | It had been arranged that a trustworthy man would come then to collect him and take him to a safe house . |
| 18 | If he woke up , I 'd feed him and take him around the block until he dropped off again . ’ |
| 19 | On another occasion his reference to the duty of the Old Testament prophets to denounce God 's judgements to the King and Court was reported to James II , who sent for him and reproached him for the controversial bitterness with which he had spoken . |
| 20 | Rather it will be a case of the researcher finding a means of recording and sorting the mass of detail which continuously bombards him and presents him with the lateral possibilities which make the discipline potentially dangerous . |
| 21 | The robot put Buff to sleep , then put the spacesuit on him and carried him to the spaceship . |
| 22 | But in the same split second something like an iron band clamped round his waist , squeezing the breath from him and bringing him to a dead stop . |
| 23 | A few of his fellow citizens would wait until the train was about to depart , nobble him and throw him on the train , slip the guards a few dollars and wave goodbye . |
| 24 | Never before had she argued so passionately with a man , hating him and wanting him with an intensity that frightened her . |
| 25 | ‘ Mummy , I want Mummy , ’ hitting him and butting him in the stomach with her head , like a little goat . |
| 26 | She wriggled away from him and stared him in the face . |
| 27 | Then she went out and picked him up and cuddled him and fed him on the cream of a new bottle of milk . |
| 28 | Sure enough , someone met him and took him to the adjutant of No . |
| 29 | But , as he rode , a terrible curiosity began to rise up in him and prick him like a gimlet . |
| 30 | He struggled even more when four men pounced upon him and pinned him to the ground , but his frantic movements were more an attempt to breathe than to escape . |