Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [v-ing] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Absolutely , ’ he said , hooking an arm around the man 's shoulders and leading him from the porch . |
| 2 | Nicholson reached across the desk , grabbing Hugo by the lapels and pulling him towards him . |
| 3 | Each combatant aims to floor his opponent , by knocking him off his feet or biting him behind the elbow . |
| 4 | ‘ Well … we 're hardly strangers any more , are we ? ’ she demanded , thrusting her hands into her pockets and eyeing him with a trace of annoyance . |
| 5 | Then , the flop brought , giving Jacobs two pairs and boosting him to a heady 4.96–1 advantage . |
| 6 | At that time I was eyeballing distances and clubbing him with my two-clubs-stronger method . |
| 7 | The therapist 's role was then largely one of encouraging him to pursue tasks relevant to the problems and providing him with support while he was doing so . |
| 8 | Jurors in the case of Dalton Prejean were unaware of his long-term mental problems when sentencing him to death . |
| 9 | Earlier , a former police consatble , Patrick Stennett , told of stopping Hagans and searching him on a footbridge between the council office and a staff car park , half an hour before Mrs McGurk died . |
| 10 | It invariably ended with Uncle Titch pretending to get cross with the clown on stilts and chasing him along the street on his fat little legs and trying to kick him up the bum and falling over backwards . |
| 11 | I laughed again and tapped the screen above a formation of red and green flapping things , just as one of them , peeling off to the side of the main pack , dived down firing at Jamie 's craft , missing it with its shots but clipping him with one green wing as it disappeared off the bottom of the screen , so that Jamie 's craft detonated in a blaze of flashing red and yellow . |
| 12 | He went back for the President , lifting him from behind by both elbows and walking him into the shower with his boxer shorts and his sandals on . |
| 13 | He has the right , which he should exercise to the full , of reading his master 's papers and accompanying him to court . |