Example sentences of "[verb] him [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then awaken him gently and present him with the bill . |
| 2 | It was lovely to meet him again when the film was made . ’ |
| 3 | Though she had dined with Red Leland that evening and had seemed as pleased to meet him again as he had been to see her , though I had frequently brought up his name since my holiday started , each time she had immediately changed the subject . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Some gave him their answer at the door , others invited him inside and sat him down to ask his question . |
| 6 | Whilst he was laid up for six weeks in Middlesex Hospital , Minton visited him regularly and kept his family in Northumberland informed as to his progress . |
| 7 | ‘ He used to be bitter because his father never visited him either but he never let his feelings out . ’ |
| 8 | I did n't know him personally and I I would n't recognise him . |
| 9 | Gavin fished the spoon out , wiped it on his shirt , and gingerly offered it to his master , who gripped his wrist , jerked him forward and clattered his ears for him before letting him go . |
| 10 | The 1981 Transport Act now states that once the police have reasonable cause to believe that a driver has been drinking , they can follow him home and breath test him there if they wish . |
| 11 | Brown felt that Nicaea was now descending into the chaos he felt inside himself , that had torn him apart since his wife 's death . |
| 12 | She drew him inside and led him towards the candle-light . |
| 13 | But then , instead of returning to the siege of Pons , he led his army in May 1179 to the enterprise which was to establish him once and for all as an acknowledged expert in the vital art of siege warfare : the capture of Taillebourg . |
| 14 | It seemed to come from nowhere , it transformed him utterly and it invariably caused her anger against him to feel quite suddenly totally inappropriate . |
| 15 | The admiration which churchmen such as Cardinal Arthur Hinsley and Bishop G. K. A. Bell of Chichester [ qq.v. ] had for Dawson involved him actively as vice-president in the Sword of the Spirit , a proto-ecumenical movement which , to his disappointment , proved to be too visionary for the Roman authorities of the time . |
| 16 | She summoned him to court , chastised him ferociously and slapped his face before the entire assembly . |
| 17 | The force of the blow caught him squarely and sent him sprawling , gasping for breath , temporarily blinded , rolling in the dust . |
| 18 | well she got what she wanted then , whatever it is anyway , she 's keeping him virtually and they got this flat , whatever they 've got , and erm |
| 19 | and he , he just goes around thumping , kicking and , and going berserk during drama and the teacher just looks on and says calm down and I mean in view of the fact I 've written to the school and complained about , but you 'd think they would be keeping an eye and he hates drama so much and it , he 's got drama tomorrow , if he has any trouble tomorrow morning I 'm not sending him tomorrow afternoon I 'm gon na start keeping him home and if they ask why I 'm gon na say because you ca n't control your classes and you wo n't want to now |
| 20 | Erm yes , Mr Chairman I should like to apologise to Bob for interrupting him then because er the enthusiasm about the green code business of course has to do with the Hatfield community project and is not initiated by Welwyn Hatfield when in the use er Herts County Council Paul in the community project , but nevertheless the green cone idea is the individual person , it 's not the District Council and it 's not somebody else taking a taking green erm green type away for composting . |
| 21 | The Foreign Office said a British official who visited Paul Ride in prison yesterday found him well and in good heart . |
| 22 | Coming out for the same reasons , Nicholas found him there and heard him make his excuses . |
| 23 | But he survived it anyway and there was er folk found him there and kind of looked after him . |
| 24 | ‘ She had always admired Robert De Niro 's work and she phoned him repeatedly when we were living in New York , using the name of a mutual friend . |
| 25 | She apparently phoned him shortly before I spoke to her today , and she 's got an assurance that she 'll get her money back . |
| 26 | There was a man there now , a short tubby man , quite good-looking , Tabitha thought , checking him automatically as she entered . |
| 27 | He mattered to Shelley very much — as a doctor and as a person , and she could n't bear to think of him losing that precious heart to this young girl , who regarded him just as someone to pay her bills . |
| 28 | M. Berton regarded him alone as capable of directing [ diriger ] the large Paris Opéra orchestra , after himself . |
| 29 | We 'd booked him just as his catchphrases were being quoted by the entire nation , and all because Julie 's mortgage broker knew someone who knew his phone number and he had agreed to appear . |
| 30 | The carer stands with her legs on either side of the patient 's knees , places her hands under the patient 's seat , pulls his body-weight forward and in one movement lifts his pelvis and pivots him so that he sits down onto the chair . |