Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [conj] [vb past] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He — I knew what would happen — last time he — he started — he got Gary off me and left him — in his cot , he was screaming , he were scared-he was rough you see he gets rough when he 's drunk , he does n't think — ’ |
| 2 | The man heard or sensed him at the last moment and turned with his hands coming up to a fighting stance but Maxim feinted through them and hit him low in the stomach . |
| 3 | As the taxi jolted through the streets of Butterfield , she linked her arm through his and kissed him . |
| 4 | Isobel stared at him , then laughed , drew her arm through his and pulled him towards the door . |
| 5 | Three of the remaining four were working together until Sunbury when Anderson and Ferrari missed the rollers , allowing Pereira to break away but Andersen chased after him and passed him before the finish . |
| 6 | ‘ Andrew had his defences down as Waterworth came across in front of me and hit him in the mouth and knocked his head on the floor . |
| 7 | As he began to shout his reply , he only managed the words , ‘ Bloody tacky , ’ when , at the sound of his raised voice close to her ear , Daisy swung her head towards him and caught him full in the chest with her nose . |
| 8 | Creed walked towards him and handed him an envelope . |
| 9 | It was the part of him that told him he was managing fine and not to change as it would just lead to hassles and worries . |
| 10 | Burton was so elated at his tough bargaining that he took a rare taxi back to Pelham Crescent , where he met his neighbour , Emlyn Williams , who winkled the details out of him and sent him back for £30 . |
| 11 | His mother came in , fell on her knees in front of him and pressed him to her ; She was gasping and shuddering . |
| 12 | Their responses had short-lived effectiveness in that they grabbed hold of him and tugged him back to his ‘ work ’ while scolding him loudly . |
| 13 | She cupped her hands underneath him and eased him over the edge . |
| 14 | She closed the door behind her and joined him on the pavement and as she took several breaths of the crisp October air she suddenly felt how good it was to be alive . |
| 15 | Inspector was standing there and George came up behind him and threw him a beautiful salute . |
| 16 | You 'll be doing him a favour , she 'd thought , and so as he wandered past the kitchen on a mid-afternoon stroll she crept up behind him and grabbed him by the neck . |
| 17 | In it , she confronted him with evidence she 'd unearthed of a conspiracy against her and accused him of being behind it . |
| 18 | He plunged for the side , but with three swift strokes Nails caught up with him and collared him round the neck . |
| 19 | President Jimmy Carter had spent New Years Eve 1977–78 with him and praised him extravagantly . |
| 20 | Stromson said : ‘ Paul also told me that Dr Bean-Bayog shared her erotic fantasies with him and asked him to act them out with her — and that they did . ’ |
| 21 | I sat with him and told him basically what to do , ’ says Charman . |
| 22 | We sat in there with him and told him about school . |
| 23 | He was pursued by the customer who had been threatened , who caught up with him and knocked him off his motorcycle ; the offender then threatened him with the gun . |
| 24 | Then he began to change his ground , to slip from real remorse into disguised anger , saying that he should never have trapped me into domesticity , meaning , of course , that I should never have trapped him , and , instead of getting angry underneath — as I had earlier when he was being honest with me — I felt an enormous , trembling sympathy with him and begged him to stop : he was n't , after all , responsible for everything . |
| 25 | Minos 's daughter Ariadne fell in love with him and gave him a ball of string to unwind on his way to the creature 's lair at the centre of the maze . |
| 26 | Just a month later , when James Russell sold his business and went to settle in Contention , he took the boy with him and gave him his American name , John Russell . |
| 27 | The shop assistant laughed with him and gave him his money back . |
| 28 | Those who loved and supported Paul fasted and agreed with him and set him and Barnabas apart to do the work , giving away two of their most effective and valued leaders . |
| 29 | But she also denied knowing Dassac , and the police subsequently discovered that she had had numerous telephone conversations with him and paid him large sums of money under a false name through a Swiss bank account . |
| 30 | Claudia Arbuthnot was never cross with him or punished him for anything . |