Example sentences of "him as [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This comforted him as it had comforted him half a dozen times this afternoon , but his mind remained basically uneasy . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , ’ Frau Nordern sat bolt upright and gave Marx her commanding glare which , however , did not have quite the same effect on him as it had done on the Duty Officer . |
| 3 | Supporting her with his right arm , his left hand strayed from her breasts to her thigh , and from there slowly completed the journey to the mouth of the Cave of Sweet Mysteries , lingering long enough to find the little temple of Min and arouse him as she began to gasp for breath , her tongue making passionate sallies into his ear . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought I 'd left that behind , ’ she murmured to him as she began to mount the stairs . |
| 5 | He wondered , once , if she would weep for him as she had done for Ansaldo . |
| 6 | She allowed her fingers to roam , her eyes tightly shut , her mind vividly picturing him as she had seen him for the very first time . |
| 7 | Her eyes swept across his face , and suddenly she had the almost overwhelming desire to tell him that it was n't important at all , that she was , inside , what he 'd called a real woman , one who wanted a home and children to fill it , and most of all a husband , a man who would take her in his arms and kiss her until nothing mattered except him , kiss her as Nicolo had , make her want him as she 'd wanted Nicolo … |
| 8 | LUKE PERRY flashes a smile that sends teenage girls wild … and explains why his most famous fan , Madonna , will NOT be seeing as much of him as she 'd hoped . |
| 9 | Her eyes blazed back at him as she fought to contain her inner excitement . |
| 10 | Damn you , she wanted to say , suddenly hating him as she hated realising that while he had watched her reading from the Palmer & Pearson file that night — she had been oblivious that she had n't been wearing her spectacles — but not so him ! |
| 11 | With a sigh I went on a few steps further to George 's office and found him as I 'd expected , fully dressed , lightly napping , with worked-on forms pushed to one side beside an empty coffee cup . |
| 12 | AFTER movie star Charlie Sheen 's agent , Jeff Ballard , was shot by robbers at his Hollywood home , an excited policewoman rushed over to him as he lay bleeding in the ambulance . |
| 13 | All right , he now knew why she had come — not to follow him as he 'd thought , but to deliver the letters ; but that still did n't explain his anger . |
| 14 | What she could have done without when she went into her office was to answer the phone and hear Jimmy Webb ring in to ask if she could do without him as he 'd got an upset stomach . |
| 15 | She finished her own coffee , listening to him as he began to talk about his friend Denzil . |
| 16 | Disturbed , Maria turned away from him as he began buttoning his shirt . |
| 17 | His B–17 went down after continual attacks , the fighters still firing into him as he continued to fall , until the aircraft suddenly exploded . |
| 18 | Paige scarcely heard him as he continued to talk ; she was battling her own reaction to that brief caress . |
| 19 | She tried to twist away , turning beneath him as he continued to grip her arms helplessly above her head among the soft pillows . |
| 20 | She had whored him as he had whored so many . |
| 21 | She was glad she had the stone , when he came into the byre ; she was waiting for him as he had asked her to , she had made her way across the orchard in the fresh blue morning and let herself in through the wooden door by lifting it off its hinges , since the bolt had rusted fast long ago , and she had looked up at the full moon of the sky in the chimney hole at the centre of the round shelter 's roof , and with her stone which was sharp as a shearing knife with a bright , honed blade the marks of the whetstone were still visible in pale striations like scouring tracks — she scraped her name into one of the stones on the interior , as many others had done before her , in tall shapely capitals , the only letters she knew . |
| 22 | If she had slept with him , he had meant , and agreed to move in with him as he had wanted . |
| 23 | Surprisingly , Franco did not make an example of him as he had done in previous such instances of " insubordination " , but appointed him as Ambassador to the Holy See . |
| 24 | She could n't finish because that would be pushy if she admitted she expected him to ask her to stay with him as he had done once before . |
| 25 | One of Bri 's great loves , literature , became a nightmare for him as he had to defend even the most off-hand comment . |
| 26 | Was he going to ruin him as he had threatened before ? |
| 27 | She played with him as he had played with , played her . |
| 28 | Folly felt something burst inside her , and she no longer wanted just to escape Luke ; she wanted to strike out at him ; hurt him as he had hurt her . |
| 29 | She saw that she must do exactly that — run away from him as he had suggested , but as far away as she could go ! |
| 30 | The two Marines paid no attention whatever to him as he stood waiting to pass . |