Example sentences of "[verb] him [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 He admits that they did not trust him and avoided him .
2 She must judge , too ; he thought she would trust him and let him have his way .
3 Marius Steen must have killed Sweet : Sweet had put the pressure on about the photographs , Steen had fixed to meet him and shot him .
4 Some were even chosen to meet him and offer him flowers , but only after careful screening for infectious diseases , and vaccination .
5 Thereafter Helen frequently walked to meet him or to accompany him on his return home across Wandsworth Common and on January 1896 they had their first long walk to Richmond .
6 There was a fine line to walk between protecting him and urging him to self-reliance .
7 She kissed and blessed him and hugged him close , and it seemed to the uneasy watchers that she would after all change her mind .
8 God nonetheless blessed him and used him .
9 They blessed him and called him their saviour .
10 In this encounter and during many others following , as it turned out , his God proved more willing to try him than to catch him up to safety ; and in this trial of his will , Kit Everard failed .
11 In response to this request he gave them the Lord 's Prayer , in which we pray first of all for God Himself , that all may know him and revere Him , that his mile may be extended over all , and that his will , so right and good and loving , may be done on earth , as it is by angels , prophets and saints in heaven .
12 Lyn stroked him and reminded him she would be back at lunchtime .
13 His mother had encouraged it , over-indulged him and assured him that he always came first .
14 ‘ He was yelling out in terror and must have run 50 yards before two blokes caught him and rolled him about the pavement to put the flames out . ’
15 Pc Masheder chased and caught him and told him he was being arrested on suspicion of theft .
16 They trapped him in corners , caught him and drove him into small dark spaces that rattled terrifyingly .
17 Grimma caught him and laid him down as gently as she could .
18 Valerie looked cautiously round , then , lowering her voice , said : ‘ Weeks ago our little kitten ran into the wood , and she caught him and turned him into a witch 's cat . ’
19 I ran after the man , caught him and fetched him back .
20 ‘ I ran after the man , caught him and fetched him back . ’
21 So they took off after him , caught him and gave him a hiding .
22 Instead of seventy dead , it might have cost him five hundred , a thousand , to destroy Siward 's army so that it could neither attack him nor follow him .
23 He guessed his mother was making it all up just to frighten him and to stop him ever going out of the house alone .
24 Jack hid in the churn , but she found him and turned it round and round .
25 The jockey 's race never stops … never stalls … so far this season Richard Dunwoody has had three hundred and sixty nine rides … he should be celebrating his century of winners any day … only one man can catch him and stop him and that 's Peter Scudamore … at Wincanton this week the reigning champion came galloping back with a winning treble …
26 With luck , with his whistling that loud Jack would catch him and see him off .
27 Gabriel had broken his apprentice 's bond and no one had hanged him or flogged him or thrown him into prison .
28 In a way , though , that limited him and made him out of touch with modern medicine .
29 Illness overtook him and delayed him until August , but he was in England in September .
30 Kenneth adores him and commandeered him the moment he arrived , allowing me to join them on a walk after yet another edible meal ( any more of this clever cooking and you 'll ruin your reputation ) .
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