Example sentences of "him and [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 31 | He had noticed the eyes of one or two French matrons stray wistfully to the tall , spectacularly handsome figure of his brother , and as the rickshaws bowled on side by side he darted a glance at him and decided it must be his new blond mustache that set him apart . |
| 32 | Catherine Crane fell silent , and he fished out the one-page note Teversham had handed him and read it , scowling . |
| 33 | Tallis felt the warmth from him and loved it . |
| 34 | Seeing no sign of him and deciding it would be a bit theatrical to go peering under the furniture , she swung back to find Leo lounging easily in the doorway , one shoulder against the door-frame , arms folded across his chest . |
| 35 | She followed him to the lift , terrified of stepping into it with him and finding it empty ! |
| 36 | But make sure you do n't miss : as most World War One biplanes had no bomb ports , the pilot had to keep the bomb in the cockpit with him and drop it by hand ! |
| 37 | Always sneering at him , jabbing him , hating him and showing it . |
| 38 | Windeler took the sheet from him and slipped it into a drawer in the desk . |
| 39 | Bodie took the sheet from him and crumpled it up . |
| 40 | One of his mates took the dented tube away from him and opened it , splashing froth over a window . |
| 41 | The T'ang took the folder from him and opened it . |
| 42 | Dr Ali , suddenly submissive , moved quickly in front of him and opened it . |
| 43 | Each member of the class is asked to think quietly : " Listen to your own thoughts for a moment or two " then " If there is something you want to say to him , go to him and say it now . " |
| 44 | Jack hid in the churn , but she found him and turned it round and round . |
| 45 | Yeah yeah a good Da Dave manages Doncaster now he 's an ex manager of Walsall as well We lived at the Brown Lion at the time and er , I , I was out the front on the Saturday evening and I er manager 's just been to fetch his Sunday joint from the local butchers and he shouted across the road to his pal how have they got on , cos there was no radio in those days , and er he says they 've won two nil and the man dropped his meat in front of him and dribbled it all the way down the road , it was such excitement it was of course all people over the moon . |
| 46 | She was going to kill him and enjoy it . |
| 47 | ‘ I 'd better break the engagement now , ’ I said , thinking my mother very foolish for not realising that what appealed to Syl was my very paleness , my silence , my hostility , which he mostly construed as shyness , until I was unpleasant , and when I was unpleasant he took it as evidence of some depth in my feeling for him and found it sexually alluring . |
| 48 | Molland picked up the Daily Telegraph lying on the chair beside him and held it out . |
| 49 | Boniface wrote to Ecgberht , archbishop of York , authorizing him to amend the letter in any way he thought desirable , and to Herefrith , a priest , who was to make known Boniface 's views to Aethelbald by reading the letter to him and explaining it — Herefrith being one to whom Aethelbald was prepared to listen . |
| 50 | If I could put a starving child before him and give it food and let him watch it grow well , I know he 'd give money . |
| 51 | If I was you now I 'd go to him and give it to him , I tell you ! |
| 52 | The disappointment on his face was so intense she wanted to hug him and kiss it away . |
| 53 | He hat eventually decided to ask Security 's registry and its computers for a trace muddling the trail by getting a colleague to send the request for him and burying it in a list of acronyms as if they had been collected over a period of time . |
| 54 | He seized the Scotch that was set before him and drained it . |
| 55 | I took the nail deliberately from him and hammered it in . |
| 56 | He took the sealed letter DeVore had given him and handed it across . |
| 57 | Jack snatched it from him and tore it in two . |