Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , Corbett realised that if de Craon knew he was asking questions it was only a matter of time before the Council of Guardians intervened and either put a stop to his activities or expelled him from the country . |
| 2 | He would ride the boy on his shoulders or shove him roughly aside according to his mood . |
| 3 | He seemed to me to be at the mercy of waves that tossed him back and forth between then and now : the real-and-actual and the desired . |
| 4 | Pain and nausea swept over him in waves that left him hot and sticky and weak at the knees . |
| 5 | Under a massive front-page headline , HUNT FOR DRACULA FIEND ( Star ) , the report indicated that a 13-year-old was able to tell detectives that her attacker ‘ had short dark hair streaked with grey and deep-set eyes that made him ‘ look a bit like Dracula ’ ' . |
| 6 | He 'd gone with one once , after a party , back to a flat with a friend of Dave 's , who 'd laughed at him and had eyes that made him feel he was being drawn into something he could n't stop , and when she shed her clothes and left them discarded on the floor he 'd stared , open-mouthed , aware of the noise inside his head , something to do with what he 'd drunk , he could still hear the music , and was aware too of the smell of some cologne that merged with hairspray and covered something that he did not want to know about , the dirt and dust of the room and the female odours that half-attracted and repelled him . |
| 7 | Dark , almond eyes that pierced him with their beauty . |
| 8 | Trent was reassured by the absence of hate in the dark , watchful , Latin eyes that faced him . |
| 9 | There was a purposeful look now in her eyes that gave him pause . |
| 10 | Half an hour later , walking slowly along the road into Haslemere through the mild grey morning , Harry described in his mind another circuit of all the barely linked half-chances that persuaded him Cunningham was right and concluded , not for the first time , that logic and probability were irrelevant . |
| 11 | She kept on his wavelength by talking about the subjects that pleased him most — and these frequently concentrated on the state of his behind . |
| 12 | John showed high intelligence in the subjects that interested him , such as geography , history and music , but would not bother with anything that bored him . |
| 13 | Understood the dreams and images that tormented him , the listless refusal of his shrouded days . |
| 14 | Denyer decided to put together a mix of landscapes and portraits , images that gave him particular visual pleasure . |
| 15 | In the screen of language the words that make him up are no more than some amongst many , a detail in the pattern , as a grotesque might be in early painting , or the straight man in a comic duo . |
| 16 | If Morrissey mocks the hand that feeds him , let he himself be mocked by the words that serenade him : ‘ This is the last song that I 'll ever sing — well I 've changed my mind again . |
| 17 | The words on his lips were the words that described him . |
| 18 | In comparison to his contemporaries in 1967 he had completed a lot more films than most ; the difference was that his were a succession of B-movies that paid him little . |
| 19 | He walked on , climbing the flight of stone steps that brought him up into the Strand itself . |
| 20 | At least now he 's surrounded by people who encourage and inspire him , who kick his arse , help him write songs and drag him out of the isolated , uncreative lethargy he easily slips into . |
| 21 | He has lived in this pleasant suburb 45 years , entirely unaware that Kirk , Keef , Claptout and all of Led Zeppelin had been looking for him to apologise for stealing his songs and to pay him much-needed royalties . |
| 22 | Sit on our bloody backsides and wish him luck ? ’ |
| 23 | Piquet 's 200 mph crash nearly took off his legs and left him with a limp for life . |
| 24 | There 's one thing , best shot 's he played in that innings down at Hove and it was a short boundary , it was a good deal shorter , in fact this one we have here at Lord 's in this match , is a six over cover off good old Lester Piggott who was steaming downhill there at Hove all arms and legs and eased him over for six . |
| 25 | She pulled up her skirt , opened her legs and straddled him . |
| 26 | Then suddenly he thrust his head between his owner 's legs and hoisted him into the trough with a resounding splash ! |
| 27 | Simultaneously , she reached between his legs and jerked him off . |
| 28 | Then she drew him on to the covers and pushed him gently back . |
| 29 | His story was that he had collapsed with exhaustion and thirst when a passing American schooner had seen his distress signals and taken him aboard . |
| 30 | They put the stranger down on the outskirts and left him standing in the middle of the road , his face in shadow under his cap and just a glimmer of those white , pebbly eyes . |