Example sentences of "[to-vb] him [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marius Steen must have killed Sweet : Sweet had put the pressure on about the photographs , Steen had fixed to meet him and shot him . |
| 2 | Some were even chosen to meet him and offer him flowers , but only after careful screening for infectious diseases , and vaccination . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He guessed his mother was making it all up just to frighten him and to stop him ever going out of the house alone . |
| 6 | In the worst of three public falls , he ‘ crashed over like a tree ’ at the 1936 Democratic convention , but aides rushed to hide him and pick him up . |
| 7 | Time now to run , to fix her eyes on that tow-headed lad with the green scarf around his stringy , chicken 's neck and never lose sight of him , no matter who got in her way , to catch him and crucify him if necessary to find out where her bag had gone . |
| 8 | A first-class chief was to be offered a carpet , rather than a rug , to sit on , and the Resident was to rise both to receive him and to dismiss him . |
| 9 | I kept in touch after that , obviously , and continued to badger him and send him new material until I was signed last August . |
| 10 | South Clwyd Coroner John Hughes said he had been impressed by the courage of the other crew members of the Warrior and medics who had pulled L Cpl Edwards from the vehicle , tried to resuscitate him and taken him to hospital . |
| 11 | After he had been held incommunicado for a month his family were allowed to visit him and found him in good health . |
| 12 | They used to bully him and tease him ; then one day on his way back from school they attacked him . |
| 13 | Unbid , she knelt and began to stroke him and kiss him . |
| 14 | MacIver denies assaulting and abducting a 46-year-old Ross-shire man , Donald Beaton , while acting with others , by hooding , binding and threatening to shoot him and robbing him of his load of spirits , tobacco and foodstuffs . |
| 15 | With a sigh , she lifted her arms to reach him and pull him down to her , and the sheet , like her resolve , slipped away . |
| 16 | Something had happened to split him and make him fight himself . |
| 17 | She needed to console him and assure him he was far from old and found remarkable pleasure in restoring his self-esteem . |
| 18 | His classmates started , started to curse erm to curse him and to humiliate him I think from the first or the second grade , and erm he was my friend , I had to , to fight for him . |
| 19 | ‘ And should any other prince or captain , Christian or infidel , of whatever law or sect or condition he may be , pretend to any right to these lands and seas , I am ready and prepared to deny him and to defend them in the names of the Kings of Castile present and future , whose is this empire and the dominion of these Indies , islands and mainland , northern and southern , with their seas , in the arctic pole as in the antarctic , on both sides of the equinoctial line , within and without the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn — so that each thing and part of it belong and appertain most completely to Their Highnesses and to their successors , as I declare more at length by writ setting forth all that may be said or can be said and alleged in behalf of their royal patrimony , now and for all time so long as the world shall last until the final universal judgement of all mortals . ' |
| 20 | No ! ’ at the ceiling , Beth trying grumpily to reassure him and shut him up . |
| 21 | ‘ When he first told me , I tried to understand him and agreed he could dress up once a week at home . |
| 22 | He is himself unreadable and hence ungovernable — a walking accusation levelled at the sympathetic educated sensibility which seeks simultaneously to understand him and set him on the straight and narrow . |
| 23 | He neglected all his duties and so there was nothing for it , either we had to wipe him off as a son , which is an impossible thing for a parent to do , or we had to decide the only other course open to us which was to kidnap him and have him de-programmed . |
| 24 | Louise tried to soothe him and persuade him to drink the antiseptic draught which McNab had given her . |
| 25 | I realise you were desperate to protect him and keep him from harm . |
| 26 | But if you love a writer , if you depend upon the drip-feed of his intelligence , if you want to pursue him and find him — despite edicts to the contrary — then it 's impossible to know too much . |
| 27 | Claudia comes to greet him and kisses him lightly on both cheeks . |
| 28 | He was indeed fortunate in his local friends who recognised his ‘ propensity to Botanicks ’ ( Benjamin Franklin , Pennsylvania Gazette , 1742 ) , encouraged expeditions and subscribed ‘ to induce him and enable him wholly to spend his time and exert himself on these employments ’ . |
| 29 | A little before midnight Miriam , who had been unable to sleep , came over to see him and tell him the news . |
| 30 | On the wall , the new star mounted a photograph of Gene Kelly , who came to see him and told him how proud he was of his performance , and painted on the door were the words ‘ Ginger Crawford ’ . |