Example sentences of "[verb] him and [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was wondering how far I should trust him and had an uncomfortable impression that he knew what I was thinking . |
| 2 | ‘ True , I do not know him and have no wish to , but he intrigues me . |
| 3 | ‘ The interior is even more astonishing , ’ Rain promised him and mentioned the opulent chinoiserie . |
| 4 | They chased the man , caught him and retrieved the bag . |
| 5 | And then the dark , the blessed dark , and the cold night air that iced him and ripped the mist from his brain , steadied his legs , poured pain into his shoulder . |
| 6 | To pacify him and avoid the embarrassment of neighbours hearing , Anne gave in . |
| 7 | We know that Wilson married , for his wife Mary helped him and continued the business for a time after his death , but nothing is known of her origins or ultimate fate . |
| 8 | She was on the point of thanking him and leaving the floor when he asked . |
| 9 | ‘ A weekly column , ’ he had suggested , and when some weeks later , looking pale and rather ill , she had visited him and suggested a series of articles about the stunted lives of women and children in the East End , to be written from the inside , she had said , not the outside , he had rapidly agreed . |
| 10 | Charles Hawtrey played him and repeated the part in almost every ‘ Carry On ’ film that followed . |
| 11 | Wexford ignored him and followed the widow to the sideboard from a drawer of which she took a long cream-coloured book . |
| 12 | I ignored him and answered the lady . |
| 13 | ‘ Your railway system seemed to be having trouble with the RAF , ’ Devlin told him and lit a cigarette , mainly because he knew Himmler detested the habit . |
| 14 | They 'd fed him and had the decency to give him fresh clothes , the shirt , blue jeans and a broad leather belt with embossed brass buckle to hold them up — camping-shop gear but adequate against the chill of November . |
| 15 | The story goes that he 's fallen out with his friends in the Provos , and he 's either on the run , or they murdered him and dumped the body . |
| 16 | He sat still and straight-backed , where his son could see him and exchange an occasional word or smile , but well out of my way . |
| 17 | He greeted the Sheikha formally ; she apologised for troubling him and explained the problem . |
| 18 | Ras Hailu planned to free him and to raise the north in his name . |
| 19 | Pilate standing on , you imagine knowing that he has delivered up an innocent man , knowing that he 's delivered to death someone who is not guilty of death , knowing that he is the son of God , the King of the Jews , listen to what he says and th listen to what he 's watch , he 's seeing rather and the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the praetorium and gathered the whole Roman cohort around him and they stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him , and after weaving a crown of thorns they put it on his head and reed in his right hand , and they kneeled down before him and mocked him saying , hail ! |
| 20 | Unlike his rabbinic forebears who were not allowed ‘ to use the Torah as an axe , ’ to earn their keep from its knowledge and application , this was a métier which both claimed him and offered a fulfilling vocation . |
| 21 | The designer 's problem is to devise sufficient variety of ways to knock him down , revive him and weave a pattern of rests between the peaks of conflict . |
| 22 | Maggie heard him and made a small rueful face . |
| 23 | Deeply hurt , Vincent jumped to the conclusion that news of his friendship with Sien had reached him and upset the man . |
| 24 | Prost went out of the race on lap 36 and had to watch agonizingly as Piquet finished third to overhaul him and take the title by two points . |
| 25 | Wycliffe thanked him and replaced the receiver . |
| 26 | At the end of the dance Maggie thanked him and beat a hasty retreat back to Natasha . |
| 27 | Lowe wrote claiming that Sutton was trying to undermine him and forge an alliance with the Founders . |
| 28 | I bred him and love the horse , and I 'm delighted to have sold him to an owner who will look after his interests . |
| 29 | From the start , pick up a crate and kill the policeman , continue right , dodging the dog on the way , climb the ladder to where the mugger prowls , dodge him and grab the ‘ ? ’ ( 50 points ) and the records , climb upwards , collecting records on the way , kill the workman with the crate and thus gain access to the roof of the building , avoid climbing the crane ( there 's nothing of interest there ) , climb up the ladder and kill the policeman , run right and jump off the edge to the end of the building . |
| 30 | The scandal would ruin him and mean the end of his political career if he should be named as corespondent in a divorce case . |