Example sentences of "him [conj] [verb] [pers pn] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't want to think about Timothy Gedge , to dwell on him or to consider him in any way whatsoever . |
| 2 | I 've seen the man 's face actually resting on the foot of the horse ; but never at any time the horse stand on him , tramp on him or damage him in any way . |
| 3 | He had brought his telescope ashore with him and mounted it in the little dormer window high up under the eaves of the steep-pitched east-facing gable of his house . |
| 4 | Of course , at last a train got him and killed him in a horrible way . |
| 5 | ‘ I can easily go back to normal , ’ Maggie got out quickly but he reached out and captured her hand , spinning her towards him and catching her in his arms . |
| 6 | The man 's trembling want of her made her feel that speck grow into a force ; she began to enjoy denying him , then permitting him again , she used her strength to grip and pin him and squeeze him in parts that made him cry out , to gouge and scratch his pale , thin flesh , she fortified him with tisanes that make men what was called in her language ‘ cross ’ , and gave him leaves to chew to stay his excitement so she could explore the crustacean pinkness of his flesh and turn her curiosity and its tinge of disgust to a form of power over him which gave her pleasure . |
| 7 | ‘ Mummy , I want Mummy , ’ hitting him and butting him in the stomach with her head , like a little goat . |
| 8 | She wriggled away from him and stared him in the face . |
| 9 | ‘ Jack must have caught him and locked him in there . ’ |
| 10 | If he had come begging and pleading , I would have laughed at him and kicked him in the teeth . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ' |
| 12 | Anpetuwi , where he had come with his hurt and confusion , and Anpetuwi , which had not disappointed him , taking him and holding him in its gentle heart as a mother held a child . |
| 13 | It nauseated him and wakened him in the night with a palpitating heart . |
| 14 | Surely the lightning stroke of heaven should have fallen upon him and destroyed him in the very deed . ’ |
| 15 | It 's a crazy thing where one child pretends to be a carrot and the others top and tail him and put him in boiling water . |
| 16 | With a groan , Vitor drew her up against him and pinioned her in his arms . |
| 17 | " In his seventh year his [ foster ] father took him and placed him in the care of a man of experience and promptly sent him abroad with him to learn foreign languages and begin at once to study books . |
| 18 | Producer Ken Hyman went in search for him and found him in a bar in Belgravia ‘ as drunk as a skunk ’ . |
| 19 | After he had been held incommunicado for a month his family were allowed to visit him and found him in good health . |
| 20 | he passed out that killed him and found him in the garden , it took four years to find him |
| 21 | Resorting to a dog-like whine , he complained to Theo : ‘ The dog feels that if they keep him , it will only mean putting up with him and tolerating him in the house , so he will try and find another kennel . ’ |
| 22 | Reaching out , he took two of the scented sticks from the porcelain jar in front of him and held them in the thread of laser light until they lit . |
| 23 | He hat eventually decided to ask Security 's registry and its computers for a trace muddling the trail by getting a colleague to send the request for him and burying it in a list of acronyms as if they had been collected over a period of time . |
| 24 | Jack snatched it from him and tore it in two . |