Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] him [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday she looked at her eight-pound new arrival , born at Arrowe Park Hospital , and said : ‘ It was a fabulous moment when the doctors came in with him and let me hold him . ’ |
| 2 | She said last night : ‘ It was a fabulous moment when the doctors came in with him and let me hold him . |
| 3 | And through this , Charles inspired awe in those who fought along with him and encouraged them all to a confident hope that things would go well for them . |
| 4 | Pilate standing on , you imagine knowing that he has delivered up an innocent man , knowing that he 's delivered to death someone who is not guilty of death , knowing that he is the son of God , the King of the Jews , listen to what he says and th listen to what he 's watch , he 's seeing rather and the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the praetorium and gathered the whole Roman cohort around him and they stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him , and after weaving a crown of thorns they put it on his head and reed in his right hand , and they kneeled down before him and mocked him saying , hail ! |
| 5 | The effort he had put into creating another character , a Daniel Miller , would have turned in upon him and transformed him into his own words . |
| 6 | She came down to him and made him a hot drink and felt his forehead which was burning hot and covered in drops of sweat . |
| 7 | The thunder thumped from some nearer point , the glass vibrated in the window , and Cameron came out of his doze to find Menzies grinning quizzically at him and offering him some more claret . |
| 8 | He had brought his telescope ashore with him and mounted it in the little dormer window high up under the eaves of the steep-pitched east-facing gable of his house . |
| 9 | She wriggled away from him and stared him in the face . |
| 10 | Bob took it away from him and kept it . |
| 11 | Releasing her abruptly , fitzAlan pulled Isabel 's arms away from him and held them , gazing down at her face as if the sight of her tormented him beyond bearing and yet he still could not bring himself to look away . |
| 12 | ‘ I had to get you away from him and have you close to me . |
| 13 | One of his mates took the dented tube away from him and opened it , splashing froth over a window . |
| 14 | Nevertheless she thought it best to humour him and sat down on the side of the table away from him and put her clasped hands on its polished top . |
| 15 | I took the nail deliberately from him and hammered it in . |
| 16 | I stood up for him and said it was rubbish , and told all the black players to quit training . |
| 17 | With a groan , Vitor drew her up against him and pinioned her in his arms . |
| 18 | ‘ The truth is that Patrick was partly terrified of Peter , who came up behind him and thought he knew better what he should do . |
| 19 | Accid you know , came up behind him and thought he |
| 20 | You 'll be doing him a favour , she 'd thought , and so as he wandered past the kitchen on a mid-afternoon stroll she crept up behind him and grabbed him by the neck . |
| 21 | Inspector was standing there and George came up behind him and threw him a beautiful salute . |
| 22 | He plunged for the side , but with three swift strokes Nails caught up with him and collared him round the neck . |
| 23 | He was pursued by the customer who had been threatened , who caught up with him and knocked him off his motorcycle ; the offender then threatened him with the gun . |
| 24 | Resorting to a dog-like whine , he complained to Theo : ‘ The dog feels that if they keep him , it will only mean putting up with him and tolerating him in the house , so he will try and find another kennel . ’ |
| 25 | He does n't know where we are at the moment and if the authorities catch up with him and give him my address it will be more trouble than it 's worth . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I went to the front of the house and saw the dogs catch up with him and knock him to the ground . |
| 27 | But , as he rode , a terrible curiosity began to rise up in him and prick him like a gimlet . |
| 28 | There are enough of them to gang up on him and dominate him , even though he remains the group ‘ administrator ’ . |
| 29 | As on every night , she went up to him and kissed him on the lips . |
| 30 | A sergeant appears from what a plate beside the door indicates is the dentist 's and I go up to him and tell him my name and that I 've been told to report my movements by Detective Inspector McDunn . |