Example sentences of "[prep] him [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stared after him mutinously as he went from the room , willing him to bump his head as he went through the door , but to her disappointment Dr Penry Vaughan ducked his tall head with the grace and dexterity of long practice . |
| 2 | As he whispered , Donald 's resonant , trained voice repeated each sentence after him so that all could hear , from the Macleans of Morvern and Coll and the seven other members of the Clan Council away past the tacksmen and subtenants to the farthest cottar on the damp sand . |
| 3 | Louise , as beautiful as ever , the lines of her face almost invisible since her most recent facelift , wearing the latest sheath dress from Dior , its narrow shape flattering her slender figure , sat opposite him calmly and charmingly talking about nothing at all . |
| 4 | Isabel started to run towards him just as another block of stone came away from the wall , hurtling downwards . |
| 5 | She turns towards him briefly and she smiles , her famous smile piercing him . |
| 6 | He threw the handkerchief carelessly into a laundry basket , then before she knew what was happening , he was kissing the tips of her fingers , then her palms , then drawing her hands towards him so that she had little choice but to slide her arms around him and receive his kiss . |
| 7 | He moved closer , reaching out to turn her face towards him so that the light glittered on the tell-tale mist on her cheeks . |
| 8 | He could see Hawkbit running towards him now and two or three of the others — Silver , Dandelion and Pipkin . |
| 9 | In 1972 Hollywood suddenly sat up and took notice of him again when he had two consecutive hits , Last Tango in Paris and The Godfather , for which he won the Oscar for Best Actor . |
| 10 | It would have to be another lesson learned the hard way , but she could not easily push the thought of him away and she knew she never would . |
| 11 | We 'd get a confession out of him easy as blinking . |
| 12 | The Master of the College , Arthur Benson , said of him humorously that when roused he would become ‘ all eye and moustache ’ . |
| 13 | With an odd feeling that he was asking because it was expected of him rather than out of genuine interest , she replied somewhat stiltedly , ‘ Once I 've a clear picture of the items to be displayed , and which room they 're to go in , I can begin the first rough draft for the catalogue . ’ |
| 14 | Erm and again I put erm things about putting details in the post although you , although you did try and overcome that one erm but you , you just could n't , you could n't get Steven to realize the benefit of you actually going round with the illustrations rather than you just sending it and you needed to get , to get the appointment out of him rather than because if he got the illustrations in the post he may never read them . |
| 15 | It was a great number and they took notice of him even though he was just on his own . |
| 16 | One does n't see much of him even when he 's here . |
| 17 | Assassination only works — I do n't really have to explain ? — when the victim 's people were sick of him anyway and ready to let in the new man without overmuch fuss . |
| 18 | Thought of him tonight as I walked down to the river . |
| 19 | And it 's a bit , it 's a bit nasty of him really cos when , like , all this thing was with Emma and everything Pete was the one that was really nice to him ! |
| 20 | I was afraid of him now that he was angry again . |
| 21 | It seemed to her a happy coincidence that Robert ( she thought of him now as Robert ) should write inviting her to Yorkshire for the weekend . |
| 22 | There were a few areas of welcome grassland like the one that rose ahead of him almost as soon as he left the Park behind . |
| 23 | He was distantly disappointed ; she had seemed shy of him recently and he had missed her , chattering away while they walked or just sitting beside him , quiet and undemanding in the garden . |
| 24 | The trouble is , he lets his frustration get the better of him sometimes and snarls and snaps at anyone who is not too much in authority over him . |
| 25 | With Gomez watching , he bound Trent s wrists in front of him so that he could hold the coffee mug . |
| 26 | He thought , once again , how large she looked and yet how vulnerable , wearing nothing but her nightdress , kneeling on the floor in front of him so that he could see , although he tried not to , the tops of her ample breasts . |
| 27 | Penry reached out a long arm and drew her in front of him so that she stood in the shelter of his arms as he held the wheel . |
| 28 | Just leave it there in front of him so that he can eat it if he wants it Charlotte |
| 29 | ‘ So I 've noticed , ’ said Meredith , and he pushed past him impatiently and ran down the grand staircase in search of Bunny . |
| 30 | ‘ I had never met anyone like him before nor have I since . |