Example sentences of "him as [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This comforted him as it had comforted him half a dozen times this afternoon , but his mind remained basically uneasy . |
| 2 | She allowed her fingers to roam , her eyes tightly shut , her mind vividly picturing him as she had seen him for the very first time . |
| 3 | Her eyes blazed back at him as she fought to contain her inner excitement . |
| 4 | Disturbed , Maria turned away from him as he began buttoning his shirt . |
| 5 | She tried to twist away , turning beneath him as he continued to grip her arms helplessly above her head among the soft pillows . |
| 6 | She was glad she had the stone , when he came into the byre ; she was waiting for him as he had asked her to , she had made her way across the orchard in the fresh blue morning and let herself in through the wooden door by lifting it off its hinges , since the bolt had rusted fast long ago , and she had looked up at the full moon of the sky in the chimney hole at the centre of the round shelter 's roof , and with her stone which was sharp as a shearing knife with a bright , honed blade the marks of the whetstone were still visible in pale striations like scouring tracks — she scraped her name into one of the stones on the interior , as many others had done before her , in tall shapely capitals , the only letters she knew . |
| 7 | Folly felt something burst inside her , and she no longer wanted just to escape Luke ; she wanted to strike out at him ; hurt him as he had hurt her . |
| 8 | Then she sat back , watching him as he strove to right their course , his face a mask of patient determination , the muscles of his bare , tanned arms tensing and untensing . |
| 9 | Three-year-old Daniel Hampton was crushed when the 9ft-high and 8ft-wide panel toppled on to him as he tried to climb it at a recreation ground . |
| 10 | Mike rubbed the back of his neck , and the silence dropped clammily on him as he tried to think it through properly . |