Example sentences of "him [adv prt] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She flirted with him , used him , led him on and asked him favours . |
| 2 | Watching every movement , and she put him on and put his blanket on the ground and he was laying there in his handful of this and so she said come to me then and she put something on the floor she said well you know you go to it , I ai n't gon na give it to you and he 's she said well no , you 've got ta try ! |
| 3 | I 'll make a further prediction that if ‘ Eric the Enigma ’ is substitute , Ferguson will pray for the chance to bring him on and bask in the reception for a stylist after Old Trafford 's heart . |
| 4 | In an interview in The Washington Post published on May 30 , Barry admitted having smoked crack but blamed the federal authorities for having led him on and accused them of having tried to " kill " him by allowing him to consume the illegal drug . |
| 5 | He watched his dejected figure walk past him into the cottage and , after allowing a few minutes to elapse , followed him in and discovered him sitting at the table in the living room , his bag of apples and sandwich lying untouched . |
| 6 | ‘ I came out to call him in and saw you pass . |
| 7 | So the woman took him in and cared for him . |
| 8 | I 've had to go back up in to him , yeah , but I do n't know what happened last night , I do n't know whether he was not quite tired enough , erm , he must of got up as soon as I put him down and started sort of moaning then I went into the girls and I sorted them out he started screaming he did , so I had to go to him in and lay him down and making him lay down |
| 9 | Nat let him in and went to fetch Tony who appeared wearing a pair of boxer shorts and a big smile . |
| 10 | Then the door of the Earl 's hall slowly yielded , and his father carried him in and laid him on the same bales . |
| 11 | Sir Godfrey Webster , the fifth baronet , was elected as a Tory member for the county in 1812 ; almost immediately he voted against the government whose friends had put him in and became increasingly radical in his demands for electoral reform and the abolition of political sinecures for the supporters of ministers . |
| 12 | Indeed , so shaken was she that , without being fully aware of what she was doing , she had invited him in and had led the way into her sitting-room before she had got herself back together again . |
| 13 | And yet there was no school of thought which cultivated and refined that enthusiasm , no influential and witty group of young film makers who could draw him in and use him as C. A. Lejeune perceptively realised he could be used . |
| 14 | When Riddle came here last Friday night I suppose you let him in and took his coat ? ’ |
| 15 | Selkirk pushed him in and made him squat on a stone ledge while he cut free his bound hands only to fasten gyves to his wrists and ankles ; attached by chains to the wall ; these allowed Corbett to move but quickly chafed his wrists and ankles . |
| 16 | He waited while Father Barnes unlocked the front door , then followed him in and offered to make a cup of tea , the British specific against disaster , grief and shock . |
| 17 | Robert arrived then and my mother let him in and offered him a drink . |
| 18 | then do n't let him in and do n't be such a wimp |
| 19 | ‘ Sharp followed him in and picked up a 12-inch knife and threatened to kill him and other staff . |
| 20 | I took him in and watched as he studied it . |
| 21 | The sergeant followed him in and found him smoking and put him on a discipline charge — idling his time . |
| 22 | I invited him in and introduced him to my wife . |
| 23 | Bring him in and give me a shout . |
| 24 | But she managed to calm him down and seek help from a neighbour . |
| 25 | They create a drag-like static that slows him down and pollutes what you would have to call his aura . |
| 26 | Ted had been a little belligerent at first but a couple of hints that Pascoe had seen him drinking in the Club earlier and an oblique reference to the breathalyser test had calmed him down and made him most co-operative . |
| 27 | ‘ I put the car into drive to run him down and kill him , ’ said Anne , who is just 5ft tall . |
| 28 | But the Hank in his mind , the one who calmed him down and cheered him up and got him going in a sensible way — she was just the sort of fantasy mother you 'd make up if your own mother was too strong , too passionate , too overwhelming . |
| 29 | ‘ Sponge him down and turn him out , ’ Henry said . |
| 30 | I thought that if I took him down to paddle for a while , it would cool him down and distract him , so he would be able to sleep . |