Example sentences of "him and [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Topknot spread his arms above him and muttered something at the sky . |
| 2 | They also lay down beside him and pressed their bodies against his to heat him . |
| 3 | His mother came in , fell on her knees in front of him and pressed him to her ; She was gasping and shuddering . |
| 4 | erm James and Alex and Danny laughing at him and thinking he 's funny because they all fancy him |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If the fall had n't killed him , the large diamond of glass he 'd brought with him and impaled his neck on certainly had . |
| 7 | in the deepest recesses of my heart , how truly I could love him , honour him and obey him . ’ |
| 8 | He must know the local language sufficiently well to follow what is going on round him and to record it with accuracy and subtlety . |
| 9 | In the later years of the dynasty there was a growing belief that the Queen of Sheba had visited Solomon in Jerusalem , had been seduced by him and borne him a son named Henelik , who founded the Abyssinian royal line . |
| 10 | If a harem is travelling alone and encounters an all-male group , the male then faces the risk that adult males from the group will attack him and usurp his reproductive role . |
| 11 | The men surged round him and jostled themselves to a standstill . |
| 12 | His mother had encouraged it , over-indulged him and assured him that he always came first . |
| 13 | Find him and bring him back . ’ |
| 14 | In the end I had to go up to him and bring him back to the fire . |
| 15 | ‘ They fetch him and bring him back . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ And when he finds it , then you want us to kill him and bring you the Volvo and the Time Sprout . ’ |
| 17 | Only when Maisie came to hold him and soothe his fears did he feel safe . |
| 18 | Even when the need in her grew strong in the dead of night and she lay dose to his slack body , caressing him and urging him , he was never able to fulfil the need in her . |
| 19 | There was a fine line to walk between protecting him and urging him to self-reliance . |
| 20 | Alcuin wrote to Aethelred , probably in 791 , expressing affection for him and urging him to display kindness not cruelty and reason not anger in his deeds , and to speak truth not falsehood , but the sack of Lindisfarne by Vikings in June 793 ( ASC D , s.a. 793 ) provided a shocked and outraged Alcuin with an opportunity to declaim against the evils of Northumbrian society , as he saw them , and the shortcomings of the king himself in a letter to Aethelred and his nobles . |
| 21 | Shales picked up one of the newspapers in front of him and pitched it down the table in Dowd 's direction . |
| 22 | He guessed his mother was making it all up just to frighten him and to stop him ever going out of the house alone . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In response to this request he gave them the Lord 's Prayer , in which we pray first of all for God Himself , that all may know him and revere Him , that his mile may be extended over all , and that his will , so right and good and loving , may be done on earth , as it is by angels , prophets and saints in heaven . |
| 25 | Napoleon despised him and exploited him because he guessed his motives and could not take seriously his defence of Spanish independence . |
| 26 | It made him look boyish and oddly vulnerable , and for one crazy moment , she had to stifle an impulse to go to him and smooth it down . |
| 27 | ‘ Everyone in the area knew him and followed him everywhere , as he was well known for bringing provisions and medical supplies . |
| 28 | In several states the personal staff of the foreign minister , chosen by him and handling his correspondence and interviews , was a formally distinct entity . |
| 29 | How happy she would be now , if she could turn her head and see him there , and reach out her arms to hold on to him and pull him close . |
| 30 | With a sigh , she lifted her arms to reach him and pull him down to her , and the sheet , like her resolve , slipped away . |