Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb pp] [prep] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first is that the £20 deposit required on hiring the punt was secured by means of a personal cheque drawn on Dennis 's account and duly signed by him . |
| 2 | It is notable too that this liberal interpretation is proposed by the jurist , and merely adopted from him by the emperor . |
| 3 | Visited by Tom Pinch on market day and fondly imagined by him to be ‘ a very desperate sort of place ; an exceedingly wild and dissipated city ’ , MC 5 . |
| 4 | His interests and habits had been too strictly and personally framed for him to be anything less than completely reliant on them . |
| 5 | She waved and then crossed her arms to lean on the fence and thus indicated to him that there was no hurry , there was nothing urgent . |
| 6 | I pulled over and just cruised past him . |
| 7 | Not only have the people never voted for the Prime Minister at the ballot box : they have consistently and persistently voted against him at the ballot box . |
| 8 | I hated the growing fear my father ( and we ) shared during his illness , that he would mess the bed , and once suggested to him that all families should be required once a month to show each other the contents of their potties . |
| 9 | It also means ensuring that any risk inherent in investment advice is explained to the client and clearly understood by him . |
| 10 | He 's married to someone so socially and culturally removed from him she might as well be a foreigner . ’ |
| 11 | It is almost as if all the punishment , admonishment and educative pressure which the aboriginal child has been spared up to this moment is suddenly and simultaneously inflicted on him ( here , for once , the masculine pronoun does not embrace the feminine because initiation is an exclusively masculine affair ) . |
| 12 | Parliament crossed him , always with the greatest respect but implacably , criticised his use of the council to levy an aid for the marriage of his elder daughter without consulting them , doubted if there was a precedent recent enough to justify the aid , and periodically and obstinately restated to him the principle that the king should live ‘ of his own ’ , without demanding that parliament should raise money by taxes for his expenses . |
| 13 | She took a deep breath and then hastened after him ; it was cowardly but she was desperate for something , some insight , some new aspect that would save her from having to hate him . |
| 14 | She was silent for a while , and then turned to him . |
| 15 | The doors flew open to admit him and then closed behind him . |
| 16 | Just outside the grille gates — which had opened automatically at his approach and then closed behind him — Newman was lying on his back under his car . |
| 17 | A figure appeared , running past the blaze and stumbling his way to the gate , which boomed open and then closed behind him . |
| 18 | The Board of Education has now given effect to the intimation conveyed by Mr. Acland and vaguely announced by him at the Annual meeting . |
| 19 | Uninvited , she positioned two fingers at the entrance of his arsehole , and crudely thrust into him . |
| 20 | Knowing her husband , if he could be led to believe that the royal castle of Berwick might be alienated from the crown and actually given to him for his services , he would be the more apt to accede to the arrangement , being a man of acquisitive mind . |
| 21 | But , in this case , we must suppose that he was both immoral and stupid : immoral in producing evidence which he knew to be forged , and stupid in not going further and producing the letters with their forged additions , for he would have known that a similar forgery supporting the monastic community at Canterbury had recently been submitted at Rome , and that it had been accepted and solemnly quoted to him by the pope as genuine . |