Example sentences of "him and [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philip the Bastard , half brother to Robert Faulconbridge , and son of King Richard the First , discovers himself in a position of authority when King John knights him and dubs him Sir Richard Plantagenet . |
| 2 | She goes up to him and tells him to stuff himself and in a flat half-minute he 's belting the old lorry up the London road . |
| 3 | Eve comes to him and tells him what she 's done . |
| 4 | it 's not even worth having , talking to him and calls her . |
| 5 | Little Master cups ( figs. 50–1 ) had gone out of fashion before a new type : a short stemmed , deep-bowled vessel without offset lip , perhaps invented by Exekias ; at least the earliest we have is decorated by him and bears his name as potter ( fig. 96 ) . |
| 6 | Rather it will be a case of the researcher finding a means of recording and sorting the mass of detail which continuously bombards him and presents him with the lateral possibilities which make the discipline potentially dangerous . |
| 7 | GUIL grabs him and spins him back violently . |
| 8 | Sam claims her father breached the trust she placed in him and says he is holding on to her cash . |
| 9 | ‘ There 's this laddie in my year , he canna read or write and the teachers pick on him , except Mr X , he 's good and disnae make a fool o ’ him and helps him wi' forms and things . |
| 10 | The lion immediately jumps on him and forces him to the ground . |
| 11 | If a tom-cat is nearby this excites him tremendously , but the female usually fights with him and drives him off . |
| 12 | Quinn has joined a boss who wants him and likes him , and if that 's not there the player will never produce the goods . |
| 13 | In these lines , Brutus is saying that the only way to stop Caesar becoming emperor is to kill him , and although he has no personal grievances against Caesar ( Caesar is kind to him and favours him ) , it would be bad for the people of Rome ( ‘ the general ’ ) if he were to be crowned . |
| 14 | ‘ She loves that child , though she says she hates him and wishes they were both dead , ’ said one of the women , watching the young mother . |
| 15 | A boy works for him and brings him all the food and things he needs . |
| 16 | Incidentally , direct a little light down behind the speaker : it fills the space behind him and makes him more three-dimensional . |
| 17 | As Frodo feels the pressure of the Eye on Amon Hen , a Voice speaks to him and gives him a moment of freedom to act . |
| 18 | At night see he ca n't leave him alone he sits there and he goes or something like that and jumps on him and gives him a I ca n't keep my hands off that dog ! |
| 19 | Orphaned at a very early age , he is brought up ‘ by hand ’ by his shrewish sister , Mrs Joe , the wife of the village blacksmith , Joe Gargery , who loves him and protects him as far as possible from his sister 's tyranny . |
| 20 | Claudia comes to greet him and kisses him lightly on both cheeks . |
| 21 | When you exacerbate this situation by confronting him with direct questioning or something which intimidates him and causes him to feel even more nervous , his breathing can become so rapid and so shallow that it borders on hyperventilation . |
| 22 | A prisoner recognises him and salutes him , then another and another . |
| 23 | Stepan reverses the news-from-Peshawar standpoint of the novel by wondering what ‘ they ’ , those powerful officials in the metropolis , are thinking about ‘ us ’ and most especially about himself ; the picture of Stepan Trofimovich Verkhovensky as a marked man because of the liberal views he held and very faintly expressed long ago , both frightens him and feeds his self-importance . |