Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | He loved the way she looked , with her glossy chestnut hair which reached below her waist when she let it loose , and her tinkle of necklaces and trails of silk scarves , and her neat slender legs in their high-heeled shoes , reminding him of gazelles ' legs or gazelles reminded him of her , he supposed , since he must have seen her first . |
| 2 | In 1844 William Makepeace Thackeray managed to get P & O to give him a free passage on a voyage to Athens , Constantinople , Jerusalem and Cairo and earned money by writing about the trip afterwards . |
| 3 | Apparently she often approached him with a picture book or toy to engage him in play with her . |
| 4 | He turned to stare at Cadfael , braced and quivering , unsure whether this was friend or enemy facing him . |
| 5 | The instructions with this recipe which came from an old horseman 's notebook were : Set this mixture by the wind ; that is , the horseman was advised to stand in the wind so that as soon as the colt or horse scented him he would advance towards him . |
| 6 | Chapman & Hall made him some compensation through extra payments for Pickwick Papers and Nicholas Nickleby , and by making loans and advances . |
| 7 | Well he was just a slaughterman then he always used to try and have Frank , another one of our butcher boys , or David or Frank to help him . |
| 8 | He bored easily and though he loved beautiful women of all dimensions and aspects , he had rarely bothered to see them twice if there was not some fire of the spirit or intelligence to intrigue him . |
| 9 | In the absence of his brother officers , he seldom allowed mere laws or conventions to fetter him . |
| 10 | His vestigial liberalism or compassion persuaded him to resist the introduction of the poll tax for nurses and other deserving persons — but the Whips knew him as a man who would always toe the lobby line with a specious ministerial assurance , such as Nicolas Ridley 's promised poll tax rebate of £130 millions . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've got to get rid of this man before Sister or Robins finds him here . |
| 12 | This is not the place for a proper discussion of Empson 's views , which like a great deal of British work are more concerned with critical method than with theory ( he wrote ( 1950 : 594 ) that ‘ a critic ought to trust his own nose , like the hunting dog , and if he lets any kind of theory or principle distract him from that , he is not doing his work ’ ) . |
| 13 | Impulses of attraction towards beautiful forms or faces troubled him frequently for the next two years at Oxford . |
| 14 | Gandalf rejects that proposal with particular violence , and at all times discussion of odds or probabilities turns him hard and obstinate : ‘ Still , ’ he said , standing suddenly up and sticking out his chin , while his beard went stiff and straight like bristling wire , ‘ we must keep up our courage . |
| 15 | Either Jamie Baird was particularly close to Puddephat , or Puddephat wanted him to be . |
| 16 | Had the hoaxer or murderer shown him a pattern which he ought to study to find the sender 's intention and ultimately his identity ? |
| 17 | Wayne told Pilar , ‘ The son-of-a-bitch ca n't make a good movie without his father or Bogart to carry him . ’ |
| 18 | Never before in his seventy-nine years had sovereign or consort accused him of enmity . |
| 19 | When Mr Knighton announced his bid , the Panel says , he did not have any independent corporate finance advisers , nor lawyers advising him . |
| 20 | At a speed that neither could match Louisa and Horrocks saw him hasten back down the lake . |
| 21 | He contrasted these with the force of the wild where ‘ man is made unwillingly acquainted with his own weakness , and meditation shows him how little he can sustain , and how little he can perform ’ . |
| 22 | Last year the Republic refused to extradite Mr Ryan to Britain to face terrorism charges , including conspiracy to murder and cause explosions , on the grounds that allegations in the Press and Parliament linking him with the IRA meant he would not receive a fair trial in Britain . |
| 23 | Pete ran ahead and opened the big glass doors as he usually did and Mum lifted him up to press the button for the lift . |
| 24 | Pete rushed off and fetched his big crayons and Mum showed him how to colour the middle of the wheels to make hub caps . |
| 25 | Rory supposed it was the same thoughtlessness that had made dad and mum have him so much later than the rest of their children . |
| 26 | You could n't get fatter than he was in gold , and he wanted to give it all away to the revolution ; he was Malatesta 's friend , and Malatesta parted him from his money , sweet and easy does it -all they got for their pains was years of exile and prison , and a few dead policemen . ’ |
| 27 | She 'd been surprised and off-balance on hearing his voice , but her subsequent enthusiasm and willingness to help him out had been well-feigned . |
| 28 | The mestizo lost his footing , and Trent heard him slide , swearing . |
| 29 | She leaned forward to stroke the blunt , creamy helmet with rhythmical little movements of her swinging boobs , before rubbing his thick foreskin between thumb and fingers to jerk him off . |
| 30 | Harsh words led to action , and Haston despatched him down the public lavatory stairs . |