Example sentences of "[vb -s] him and [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quinn has joined a boss who wants him and likes him , and if that 's not there the player will never produce the goods . |
| 2 | When you exacerbate this situation by confronting him with direct questioning or something which intimidates him and causes him to feel even more nervous , his breathing can become so rapid and so shallow that it borders on hyperventilation . |
| 3 | Orphaned at a very early age , he is brought up ‘ by hand ’ by his shrewish sister , Mrs Joe , the wife of the village blacksmith , Joe Gargery , who loves him and protects him as far as possible from his sister 's tyranny . |
| 4 | Stepan reverses the news-from-Peshawar standpoint of the novel by wondering what ‘ they ’ , those powerful officials in the metropolis , are thinking about ‘ us ’ and most especially about himself ; the picture of Stepan Trofimovich Verkhovensky as a marked man because of the liberal views he held and very faintly expressed long ago , both frightens him and feeds his self-importance . |
| 5 | GUIL grabs him and spins him back violently . |
| 6 | A prisoner recognises him and salutes him , then another and another . |
| 7 | ‘ She loves that child , though she says she hates him and wishes they were both dead , ’ said one of the women , watching the young mother . |
| 8 | Philip the Bastard , half brother to Robert Faulconbridge , and son of King Richard the First , discovers himself in a position of authority when King John knights him and dubs him Sir Richard Plantagenet . |