Example sentences of "him [adv] [conj] [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the door of the Earl 's hall slowly yielded , and his father carried him in and laid him on the same bales . |
| 2 | I invited him in and introduced him to my wife . |
| 3 | Cornelius lifted him down and set him upon the copper map . |
| 4 | He looked as though a cannonball had hit him amidships and left him with a hollow chest and a permanent arch in his back . |
| 5 | Then awaken him gently and present him with the bill . |
| 6 | She drew him inside and led him towards the candle-light . |
| 7 | We can assume that his scepticism extended to his belief in the efficacy of non-violence because he notes that reading Tolstoy influenced him greatly and cured him of his scepticism making him a believer again in ahi sā . |
| 8 | When he came round , they dragged him outside and flung him in his night-clothes , into a car and handcuffed him . |
| 9 | I sat him up , took him outside and injected him with some dangerously powerful drugs . |
| 10 | Gently , he carried him outside and put him in the basket . |
| 11 | It was n't just Frank they were looking for , if they had n't shot him already and buried him in some bog . |
| 12 | Oliver was led away to be locked up , and a reward was offered to anybody who would take him away and use him for work . |
| 13 | Bonkers ; let us put him away and keep him under sedation and have done with him , " That was the way their minds worked . |
| 14 | Owen laboured over the living , mending them as best he could , and over the dead , making them ready for burial , until he fell and lay like dead beside the last of them , but still conscious and aware , and Adam and some of those who had come with the priest to their aid carried him away and bedded him in quietness in one of the cottages . |
| 15 | A man pulled him backwards and pushed him against a wall . |
| 16 | Yet though the witches bring his already existing ambition out they can not be completely blamed for his downfall and degeneration as it this , his own ambition which eventually takes him over and turns him into a psychopath , killing merely out of feeling and without reason . |
| 17 | He said , ‘ I 'd love to do it ’ , and the next week I brought him over and introduced him to the cast and he started . |
| 18 | Walter will find him safe lying at the holding until Iago can ferry him over and see him on his way . |
| 19 | She held out a hand and , when he took it , heaved him upright and pulled him towards the bedroom . |
| 20 | marvellous Missus will wash him off and put him to bed . |
| 21 | It was tempting to march him home and face him with my sewing machine and its 10-point threader . |
| 22 | Later , people would come along , dig him up and remove him to a more permanent resting place where the vicar would say a few words and it would all be over , except for those who remembered him . |
| 23 | When he stabbed and lightly wounded the driver , they tied him up and took him to the settlement . |
| 24 | A waitress picked him up and took him round the restaurant . |
| 25 | Teodor , with good-humoured exasperation , picked him up and handed him to a footman . |
| 26 | The men used two cars to force the driver to stop on a main road before tying him up and abandoning him in woods . |
| 27 | He put his head on her shoulder and she turned and picked him up and sat him on her broad lap , her arms tight about him . |
| 28 | After Arthur read that paralysing codswallop , the piece of business became impossible and it was only after Fred rang him up and ribbed him about it that he could manage to get the thing off his head again . |
| 29 | Amy helped him up and showed him to the door while Kath stripped off her gown and gloves . |
| 30 | At the market he started off down one of the narrow , clothes-thick alleyways , but we pulled him back and shielded him from the warren of stalls . |