Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would you rather I thrashed him within an inch of his life ? |
| 2 | Apparently I met him at a conference on the economics of multiculturalism . |
| 3 | So I tell him about the search for her , and he sits and listens . |
| 4 | I could n't think of a good reason why not so I ushered him towards the stairs and told him I lived in Flat 3 . |
| 5 | Over a cup of tea in the departure lounge he asked about the red rose I had placed by the wall , and so I told him of the red , white and blue wreath at Bayeux , of the other red roses on the graves of the crew , and of the ‘ Peace ’ rose which we had brought from England . |
| 6 | Leslie did not want me to go with him to the station , and so I watched him from the hotel-room window , his jaunty walk bravely exaggerated . |
| 7 | Suddenly she saw him in a new guise . |
| 8 | So she popped him into a plastic box , wrapped it in brown paper and posted it . |
| 9 | Only his song could do the trick , and float the witch into a dreamless sleep , and so she tied him to a perch by a silken ribbon and put bells on his bird 's feet . |
| 10 | So she hit him on the face to make him prick his ears ! |
| 11 | So you drop him at the actual hospital ? |
| 12 | Swiftly she caught him under the armpits and heaved until she managed to persuade him from the ground . |
| 13 | Gently she shook him by the shoulder , and his eyes opened . |
| 14 | In fact — and this is going to blow your socks off if you 've never thought about it before — God works out how much we love him by the way we treat other people ( including teachers ) . |
| 15 | Together we assisted him into the taxi . |
| 16 | Perhaps they used him as a mine-detector ! |
| 17 | so they put him on a life support did they ? |
| 18 | So they put him in the kitchens . |
| 19 | So he walked him round the beat until the sergeant found him . |
| 20 | So he tapped him on the shoulder and Dad being a big chap with big chest just said er S Do you know my lad ? |
| 21 | The sooner you get him to the vet , the better . |
| 22 | Finally he grabbed him by the collar , and with a spasmodic effort tipped him off the wharf into the canal . |
| 23 | Well they used to ask you to invite the e actually invite the American soldiers into your homes and my friend in Chuckery a couple of years ago , I was visiting him one Sunday lunch and a knock came to his door and he went and it was a guy who came over to see , his mum is now dead , but he , he come over he remembered him from the war . |
| 24 | Deliberately she looked him in the eye as she said it . |
| 25 | Numbly she followed him from the dance floor , barely even noticing when some of the dancers called out to her in passing . |
| 26 | Carolyn knew that he was angry with her , for some reason which she could n't fathom , and that the more she pressed him for an explanation the more he clammed up over it . |
| 27 | Once we got it off we showed him around the fire appliances and he went away happy , ’ said John . |
| 28 | For once they had him by the balls . |
| 29 | Now I took him into my home , it was an extremely costly thing to do , and eventually we got him into the Chiltern Clinic . |
| 30 | Whenever I meet him in the village , ’ he said bitterly , ‘ which is not very often , I 'm glad to say , he walks right past me without even raisin' his cap in respect … ’ |