Example sentences of "him he [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a lifetime of practice behind him he rolled a passable cigarette in his fingers and lit it . |
| 2 | He pulled up his roots a second time and moved to another new land , Germany , where during the twelve years that were left to him he accomplished a ‘ ballet miracle ’ , building not merely a repertory and a company in Stuttgart , but a whole new public attitude that affected other theatres throughout the country . |
| 3 | As she walked away from him he suffered a stroke , and Alizon was later arrested and tried on the charge that she ‘ practised , exercised and used her devilish and wicked arts ’ and that by these she ‘ had him lamed so that his body wasted and consumed away ’ . |
| 4 | The tour was a shock to the system , particularly Gordon 's : back home afterwards , his doctor told him he had a damaged liver . |
| 5 | In front of him he had a piece of cardboard on which was scrawled : HOMELESS AND HUNGRY . |
| 6 | From behind him he heard a single cry , like a wounded animal in mortal pain . |
| 7 | Of him he wrote a memoir , The Life of a Boy ( 1947 ) . |
| 8 | As the thought struck him he felt a sudden wild dizziness , and fatigue ran through him like an electrical surge . |
| 9 | Lucien did so , and behind him he felt a kindling of curious scrutiny from the musicians . |
| 10 | Off the field he was a quiet and relatively withdrawn family man , but with the ball at his feet and open space in front of him he became a demon . |
| 11 | He wore the police issue of corduroy clothes and heavy clogs , but when he saw Joe watching him he struck a pose , one hand on his hip and the little finger of the other crooked genteelly beside the iron cup . |
| 12 | His voice was thick and hoarse against her lips , and as she found her body instinctively straining towards him he ran a slightly shaking hand down over her shoulder to caress the jut of her breasts beneath the clinging yellow Lycra . |
| 13 | He lifted his face from the peephole , and in the glass in front of him he saw a face he thought he recognized . |
| 14 | Yes if we catch him he eats a couple of carrots in his hand |
| 15 | But we told him he stood a very real chance of not surviving if he went back on stage againy |
| 16 | Doctors tell him he needs a complete rest for six months . |
| 17 | As I looked up at him he placed a steaming hot mess-tin full of what looked like Machonachie stew on the floor of the barn beside me. |
| 18 | To one soldier who told him he worked a seven-day week , the Prime Minister retorted : ‘ I know the feeling . ’ |
| 19 | To one soldier who told him he worked a seven-day week , the Prime Minister retorted : ‘ I know the feeling . ’ |
| 20 | As officers moved in to arrest him he waved a knife and snarled : ‘ Come on then , do you want some of this ? ’ |
| 21 | His phone calls do not go unanswered , and because few councillors or officials will decline to speak to him he has a disproportionately influential voice on questions like the route of a planned by-pass . |
| 22 | To help him he has a hand-picked team of the country 's most experienced prosecutors . |
| 23 | Dragging the pad towards him he found a clean page and wrote : Dear Harsnet , I know you never answer my letters or return my calls , and I know that you handed over your notes to me on the understanding that I could do what I liked with them and not bother you , but I have to say that while there is much in them that I admire , as I will always admire much in you , no matter what , there is also much in them that seems to me to be puerile and , to put it mildly , bigoted . |