Example sentences of "[vb past] him [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She kissed and blessed him and hugged him close , and it seemed to the uneasy watchers that she would after all change her mind . |
| 2 | God nonetheless blessed him and used him . |
| 3 | They blessed him and called him their saviour . |
| 4 | Lyn stroked him and reminded him she would be back at lunchtime . |
| 5 | His mother had encouraged it , over-indulged him and assured him that he always came first . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | Pc Masheder chased and caught him and told him he was being arrested on suspicion of theft . |
| 8 | They trapped him in corners , caught him and drove him into small dark spaces that rattled terrifyingly . |
| 9 | Grimma caught him and laid him down as gently as she could . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | I ran after the man , caught him and fetched him back . |
| 12 | ‘ I ran after the man , caught him and fetched him back . ’ |
| 13 | So they took off after him , caught him and gave him a hiding . |
| 14 | Jack hid in the churn , but she found him and turned it round and round . |
| 15 | In a way , though , that limited him and made him out of touch with modern medicine . |
| 16 | Illness overtook him and delayed him until August , but he was in England in September . |
| 17 | But the king grabbed him by his horns , beat him and thumped him , and said , " Go back to that boy and keep pestering him . |
| 18 | Despite his trying to stop her , her hungry kiss sought his mouth , tasted him and tested him . |
| 19 | I approached him and asked him about caddying for him , and I was very pleased when he said yes . |
| 20 | It happened that one of the doctors practised hypnosis , and the sister of the ward concerned approached him and asked him if he could do anything to calm this patient who was disrupting the ward routine and upsetting the nurses . |
| 21 | The driver became suspicious when the man , dressed in a dark uniform approached him and asked him if he 'd been drinking . |
| 22 | Chief Constable Burrows was outside his club in Friar Street when a fellow-member approached him and suggested he looked into the whereabouts of Philip Drew , an actor who was performing in a play called The Monster at Reading 's Royal Theatre at the time of the Oliver murder . |
| 23 | Every morning at eight-thirty , a servant girl woke him and gave him breakfast on a tray . |
| 24 | Jim assured him that hearing me sing was the experience of a lifetime , but Dad was n't having that . |
| 25 | He said — he said he should n't know himself really , but one of the people there , the tour leader , told him and told him not to say anything , and Cedric ’ — she breathed deeply again — ‘ told me , and told me not to say anything . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ We 're not playing , Connelly , ’ Farrell told him and pulled him across the hot and clammy room . |
| 27 | Davidson told him and furnished him with the office copy . |
| 28 | Gabriel had broken his apprentice 's bond and no one had hanged him or flogged him or thrown him into prison . |
| 29 | It ordered Jodie Paul to give back her four-year-old biological son Melvin to Eugene and Edith Moore , the couple who adopted him and raised him since birth . |
| 30 | Many of the cities of central Italy were nominally under papal suzerainty — and they sometimes actually obeyed him and paid him tribute ; but effective conquest lay in the future . |