Example sentences of "him and [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must know the local language sufficiently well to follow what is going on round him and to record it with accuracy and subtlety . |
| 2 | Shales picked up one of the newspapers in front of him and pitched it down the table in Dowd 's direction . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Sit on him and try it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I pulled the coat off him and flung it onto the hawthorn bushes where it rested upside down , spilling the contents of the torn pockets . |
| 7 | ‘ The Scots do n't look very … amusable , ’ drawled Georgie , picking a bit of 1,000-year-old stone off the wall behind him and aiming it at a tent-peg . |
| 8 | I want you , ’ she confided passionately , arching against him and repeating it urgently . |
| 9 | Best see him and get it over . |
| 10 | Will you go with him and get it ? |
| 11 | He took out the photograph which he always carried with him and compared it to the woman he had just seen . |
| 12 | He thinks the Ukrainian probably was killed and someone stole it from him and got it to Europe . ’ |
| 13 | He took Duncan 's suitcase from him and put it on the back seat . |
| 14 | Why did n't he take that with him and put it in for a minute , for god 's sake . |
| 15 | You need to take your hand off him and put it round you . . |
| 16 | I shut the door behind him and locked it . |
| 17 | ‘ You 're thinking that the aunt killed him and made it look as though he 'd done it himself . ’ |
| 18 | He replied , apparently to the students ' dissatisfaction , that he had himself encountered nothing of the kind and indeed that many of those who had started off the war with him and seen it through to the end had become major military commanders . |
| 19 | He was on his feet , holding out his hand to Nick who went to him and took it trustingly . |
| 20 | He made coffee , then found the piece of paper Roxborough had given him and took it to the phone . |
| 21 | I reached past him and slotted it myself . |
| 22 | When Jacques Delors said that within 10 years , 80 per cent of the decisions affecting the industrial economic and commercial matters would be taken in Brussels , Lord Young argued with him and said it would be 50 per cent . |
| 23 | I stood up for him and said it was rubbish , and told all the black players to quit training . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ Police surgeons have looked at him and said it 's safe to detain him in a police cell . ’ |
| 25 | There had been a steady diminution — since the operation — in his own interest in dentistry but she had tapped his experience out of him and collected it with care . |
| 26 | He picked a newly constructed swatch of samples up from the desk in front of him and chucked it at Antinou , who caught the flopping thing one-handed and proceeded to fondle it familiarly . |
| 27 | Malcolm got right on the phone with him and sorted it out . |
| 28 | But I 'll call him and cancel it , if you insist . ’ |
| 29 | America should be very proud of him and show it . |
| 30 | Bob took it away from him and kept it . |