Example sentences of "[vb -s] him [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He needs him again and again when he becomes uncertain and discouraged , for by himself he can not help himself without belying the truth . |
| 3 | Now she wants him home so they can talk about their ‘ big wedding ’ . |
| 4 | Later Pip meets him again when Jaggers arranges for him to share rooms with Herbert in Barnard 's Inn . |
| 5 | She meets him immediately when she hits his new Jag with her battered old Beetle . |
| 6 | E/1omund 's daughter E/1owyn rides into battle and confronts the Nazgul Lord and kills him even though she herself lies near to death for a time afterwards . |
| 7 | She answers him sternly and literally , but talks a great deal more and more fluently than usual . |
| 8 | Pleasure interests him only as long as its quickening of local awareness contributes to his overall awareness . |
| 9 | It takes him less than 30 seconds to assemble an asbestos mat , a bunsen burner , a wire mat on the top of a tripod and a beaker full of water Full of bright blue supersaturated copper-sulphate solution . |
| 10 | It takes him less than five seconds to reach me . |
| 11 | The hand that wards off may also be used to grab an opponent , whose own strength pulls him forward and off balance . |
| 12 | The female attacks the male as soon as he approaches her nest , and drives him away before he can reveal how he would have responded to the kittens . |
| 13 | She precedes him rather than staying behind as befits a consort . |
| 14 | The boy with the comic brushes him away and walks off , captivated . |
| 15 | Well nowadays I do n't know whether you should record this or not , but nowadays erm they 'll not go unless they 've been to the bar or something before that well unfortunately Leslie 's not able to drink now , he ca n't after his operation , he ca n't take , it just upsets him altogether so he ca n't go to the bar and all the rest of the company have been to the bar and they 're in a different mood than what Leslie is , so Leslie 'll just not go , and it just , it 's kind of , cut him off |
| 16 | His Mum sort of turns him away and says summat foreign and they all walk off quick . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It also fits him well because it pays tribute to the musical influences which play such a large part in his current show . |
| 19 | Sir tells him straight that he 's got to be a tree But he wo n't wave his arms around . |
| 20 | Martha tells him often that I am in the history department as opposed to being the history department , in the sense of running a history department . |
| 21 | Nobody has exemplified the extremes of this aberration of outdoor endeavour more than Chris Townsend , so it serves him right that he is called to write a book on the subject . |
| 22 | Serves him right if the sea rises up and drowns him ! ’ |
| 23 | It strikes him suddenly that Venus is in the wrong place . |