Example sentences of "him and [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what is challenging is that again Peter did not allow this mistake to separate him and strangle the spiritual life from him . |
| 2 | Paul drove ; Agnes sat next to him and absorbed the incessant movement of traffic , the blinking of the lights , the pointless agitation of a metropolitan night . |
| 3 | And something stilled within her as in that instant she caught a tantalising waft of the rich , dark scent of him and felt the hard , powerful warmth of him press against her . |
| 4 | With a frown he pulled a file towards him and buzzed the outer office . |
| 5 | Better — why not interview him and get the real story ? |
| 6 | This satisfies him and allows the other adventurers to run and escape automatically while the Champion is otherwise engaged . |
| 7 | I looked past him and saw the old motor bike , which he parked in our front garden . |
| 8 | Kolchinsky waited until Whitlock was seated before opening the file on the desk in front of him and outlining the sketchy details Philpott had received from their UNACO contact in Beirut earlier that morning . |
| 9 | Waiting for the King to speak , he could hear the gust claw through the heather behind him and set the flowering whin , silk and tinsel , rubbing together , bough against bough . |
| 10 | These he carried home , partly because the little room lacked storage space , partly to appease the secretive , magpie instinct which was part of his nature : he loved to keep , hide , obfuscate , cover his tracks ; he had fantasies in the watches of the night of other scholars stealing a march on him and publishing the definitive study of Walter Machin first ( though how that would be possible , in view of his privileged position , he would have been hard put to it to say ) . |
| 11 | Though momentarily disoriented and deafened by the blast , Grant still felt the floor shake under him and heard the ominous rumble which told him what he dreaded to know . |
| 12 | In his vision God appeared before him and delivered the old promises made to Abraham and Isaac . |
| 13 | When he got back to the car Ivy took it away from him and opened the other end . |
| 14 | On April 21 , 10 ministers issued a statement to the chair of the Supreme Council , Vytautas Landsbergis , referring to Prime Minister Gediminas Vagnorius 's " dictatorial work style " , placing in doubt their future co-operation with him and asking the Supreme Council to examine ministerial and Prime Ministerial functions . |
| 15 | As Hess approached the plane , Karlheinz trained the movie camera on him and turned the little switch . |
| 16 | Jack Elam shut the doors behind him and turned the OPEN sign round to CLOSED . |
| 17 | All the children on board will have the opportunity to meet Santa , receive a gift from him and enjoy the seasonable atmosphere while all the adults will receive a complimentary drink . |
| 18 | She took it from him and patted the marble-topped table , then placed the hanky to dry over the back of a chair . |
| 19 | ‘ The interior is even more astonishing , ’ Rain promised him and mentioned the opulent chinoiserie . |