Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] [vb past] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew that Ben was a good enough footballer to play effectively where we wanted him . ’ |
| 2 | But no warning could check Arthur Conway 's fury , and with a lightning leap he managed to grip the young man 's throat , and so fiercely that he forced him backwards , only the next moment to have his arms snapped downwards , when he would have fallen on his back if he had n't come up against the coalhouse wall and , unfortunately , a shovel that was propped there . |
| 3 | So once you got him into your fleshy arms — ’ |
| 4 | He and she were similar but he had a natural goodness which she lacked , and she did not want to claim aloud that she understood him because that , in itself , would lead to misunderstanding . |
| 5 | Faldo will never achieve the heights of Nicklaus ( will anyone ? ) , and he will probably never the win the affection of the golfing public , but he deserved better than you gave him . |
| 6 | He would drop her , of course , sooner or later — or rather , he would engineer it so that she dropped him . |
| 7 | And he went to take her by the arm , for he feared that she might fall — only for an even worse horror to grip Sally-Anne , so that she pushed him violently away , quite unable to control herself , stammering , ‘ No — no … ’ |
| 8 | I could see , as he sang , the years drop away — so that I knew him : the young and hopeful singer , all the best to come , a bottle no more than something to be cracked among friends . |
| 9 | He absently slid his programme nearer to her so that it touched him now , glancing at her out of the corner of his eye . |
| 10 | Sharpe twisted the map round so that it faced him . |
| 11 | Perhaps if she asked him a simple , straightforward question she would receive a simple , straightforward answer in return . |
| 12 | At the entrance to the Press tent I asked the security man if Toby was inside and he pointed him out in the middle of the usual muddle of desks and papers , with telephones ringing and cigarette smoke drifting , and expletives exploding . |
| 13 | ‘ I watched him in and I watched him leave . |
| 14 | when she , this man was n't very well on , she saw him up at her window and she saw he was n't very well on the other side of the road and she sent down to ask him to come in and she gave him a cup of tea and everything and she was talking |
| 15 | Her face closed in and she eyed him with a return of the defiance and challenge he had seen in her eyes at first . |
| 16 | He went down and they carried him out . |
| 17 | In consequence of my suggestion , Harold Wilson asked Aitken and myself to dine with him to discuss the matter and to my amazement Max Aitken said that he would go , but only if I accompanied him . |
| 18 | That would be loss enough if I watched him go with only longing for him in my heart but there is instead a bitterness because he is happy to go life there being preferable to here where there is only his tired wife for company . |
| 19 | Yeah but even so if you paid him forty eight pounds for an hour that 's still |
| 20 | it was n't good because erm I did n't love him and right so , so if I kissed him and met him the next day would I , would I snog , would , would he , he 'd give me the hat so I said yeah sure , you know , whatever , so he goes okay and he like prepared himself and goes no I ca n't do it in here and so I had to go outside with him , snog him , got his hat and pissed off , never saw him again . |
| 21 | You got and you , you a taxi came along and you paid him forty P or fifty P , whatever |
| 22 | I said that he could try to put the cube together and I left him with the pieces while I went to fetch some paper . |
| 23 | Afterwards they went shopping together and she helped him choose some shoes for his wife . |
| 24 | She had not liked him very much but she judged him to be one of those unfortunate men who dislike their neighbours even more than they dislike themselves and as such he was to be pitied , plodding on from day to day among his bingo-playing telly-watching parishioners . |
| 25 | She had given in because she found him irresistible and , looking at his strong brown back in the first grey light of dawn , she still found him so . |
| 26 | Then I nearly fell over when Hywel walked in because I met him on the mountain and he gave me the eye . ’ |
| 27 | Merely because I reminded him how unlikely he was to catch an heiress . ’ |
| 28 | It was on the tip of Jehan 's tongue to suggest that Alexei was allowing himself to be used only because it suited him ; but it was clear that discussing the subject was making Jehana unhappy , and so he said nothing , sitting quietly beside her until suddenly she got up and went into the house . |
| 29 | The first is worth mentioning only because it gave him his debut in a major studio , for a United Artists production of Studs Lonigan , one more Dean-like character taken from a successful trilogy of novels by James T. Farrell . |
| 30 | Mr Brownlow explained that he had run after the boy only because he saw him running away . |