Example sentences of "him [adv] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said her parents liked him tremendously and surely that must count for something even in this day and age ! |
| 2 | Some good men feared his radicalism , and some good men disliked his passion , and some less good men thought him little but a rhetorician . |
| 3 | A second line of argument advanced on behalf of the doctor to justify his failure to accede to the request of his patient is that the doctor must continue treatment because to do otherwise would render him criminally and/or civilly liable . |
| 4 | She glared at him furiously and threw the bag on to the ground in uncaring fury . |
| 5 | She put her arms around Erik 's neck , and kissed him — kissed him slowly and lovingly on his ugly mouth . |
| 6 | He was not quick to anger and confrontation ; shocks caught up with him slowly and he usually faced them in solitary depression rather than by throwing a scene . |
| 7 | She watched him nervously and then he casually stretched up and removed his damp shirt so that it took all her powers , her resolutions , to appear composed in sight of his taut , powerful torso . |
| 8 | I wanted him badly and he hated my guts , and I said all right , I 'll leave you alone if you can beat any of the guys on the Australian spring tour . |
| 9 | ‘ They beat him badly and I do n't know what to do . ’ |
| 10 | The groom helped her dismount and she thanked him politely and waited , unwilling to break the link with her new-found friend before she must , until groom and horses were out of sight . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't mind waiting , ’ she told him politely and pleasantly , though she could n't resist adding , ‘ Rosemary and I are friends ; I have n't seen her for ages , so I thought I 'd ring up for a chat . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We would have caught him eventually but this time it was thankfully a case of sooner rather than later . ’ |
| 13 | He and my father were very close , you see — he controlled my lord 's armies , and supported him verbally and by arms in all things . |
| 14 | The rain was pelting him relentlessly and he may have been as well to have had no clothes at all for all the protection his gave him . |
| 15 | Had it not been for Pam 's voice cajoling him onward and upward , he would have given up the struggle . |
| 16 | ‘ Choose your consultant carefully , manage him properly and benefit from his help and advice . ’ |
| 17 | Jenna looked at him secretly and knew he would be no match for Alain Lemarchand at all . |
| 18 | Was I hearing him right or had I missed the point as so often happened ? |
| 19 | Of course , maybe I 've missed him entirely and he 's already set off on whatever trip Mr Archer seemed to know about . |
| 20 | But Melody had her face turned up to him eagerly and he remembered other details of Boz 's wedding night party : his meeting with Melody 's mother and the small , shabby tent that was her home . |
| 21 | This seems to have sobered him somewhat and he became an assistant in A. W. H. Kolbe 's laboratory in Marburg , but his contract was not renewed . |
| 22 | She pulled Midnight 's head up off the grass , gathered him together and drew him delicately on to the garden path . |
| 23 | Mr. Robert Hughes : If the Minister will say that , once all the companies have been sold he will publish the individual price , I at least will be willing to meet him halfway and accept that . |
| 24 | You 've got to release him straightaway or else they 'll have my balls to play snooker with . ’ |
| 25 | Then she brought his lips against hers again and kissed him long and lasciviously as if she was the man and he the woman … |
| 26 | The Smallholder looked at him long and hard . |
| 27 | If Robin was truly our child , the bloody Spanish would n't hold him long and , if they do , then he is not worthy of our blood . |
| 28 | The Sardinian looked at him long and hard , shaking his head slowly . |
| 29 | ‘ You were even cooler than Fred , ’ she said , laughing at him admiringly and leaning her two dogs against her as if they were supporting a fine book . |
| 30 | In the same way , the husband 's body does not belong to him alone but also to his wife . |