Example sentences of "him as [pron] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ross — I do wish that … ’ she began , hoping even at this last moment for some word , some sign that the scorching , torrid passion that had exploded between them in the Hamptons had meant as much to him as it had to her . |
| 2 | What distinguishes W. from them , and what with all respect I do not think that Thorpe J. took sufficiently into account ( perhaps because the point did not emerge as clearly before him as it did before us ) , is that it is a feature of anorexia nervosa that it is capable of destroying the ability to make an informed choice . |
| 3 | ‘ No , ’ Ruth told him as she limped towards him . |
| 4 | you to do is er give me his telephone number so that I er contact him , offer the same service to him as I have to you . |
| 5 | She grappled with him as he pressed against her , pushing him away and urging him on . |
| 6 | His forehead was ripped dark in the starlight but his cheekbones still gleamed ( an image superimposed : the sunset slanting over him as he grinned at her in the freighter ) the way she remembered . |
| 7 | She turned her head , saw him tether his horse at the edge of the wood , watched him as he walked towards her . |
| 8 | A fever grew inside him as he gazed on her . |
| 9 | The warrant officer was speechless , but not for long and he thundered at him as he had on me a few minutes before . |
| 10 | Alarmed , she fumbled with her right hand for her blanket , breathing erratically , staring up at him as he loomed over her . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , very much so , ’ Rachel said sweetly , hating him as he towered over her , opening the rear door of the car for her . |
| 12 | Ian is obviously a deeply spiritual person and I for one am NOT going to take the piss out of him as he recounts to us his close encounter with ‘ them ’ . |
| 13 | But he did n't even wait to hear her protests that she was all right , and came back a minute later with two hospital pillows which he arranged for her , and she thought the faintly male , musky and intensely sensual smell of him as he bent over her was making her more faint than loss of blood . |
| 14 | Sometimes Gabriel 's ghost was so physical , so vivid , that Lee would almost cry out to Larry to warn him as he moved through it between the kitchen and the living-room or walked over it as Gabriel lay on the carpet in front of the television . |
| 15 | Their hands lay laced together on the chair arm , but Lisa did not look at him as he put to her , ‘ Of course you have to think of Emily , but surely there must be a couple of men out there who are capable of being a good father to your daughter ? ’ |