Example sentences of "him [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He supposed they would lock Ho in the boot or hide him somewhere while his father was fetched . |
| 2 | She said her parents liked him tremendously and surely that must count for something even in this day and age ! |
| 3 | Some good men feared his radicalism , and some good men disliked his passion , and some less good men thought him little but a rhetorician . |
| 4 | Beware him most when he smiles his widest , he told himself . |
| 5 | A second line of argument advanced on behalf of the doctor to justify his failure to accede to the request of his patient is that the doctor must continue treatment because to do otherwise would render him criminally and/or civilly liable . |
| 6 | had actually taken him on that he used to know years ago and had finished the |
| 7 | They passed a counter above which hung trusses of pigeons , pheasants and other less identifiable but more disturbing birds ; Helen grabbed Edward 's arm to hurry him on but he was already gazing at a row of hares suspended by their feet from a rack . |
| 8 | They refuse to take him on because of his disabilities . |
| 9 | The RSPCA took him on because his owners could n't afford the vet 's bill . |
| 10 | This wanting teased him on as it happened — contingent naturalism — to murder . |
| 11 | But , by keeping him on as State Secretary , Mr Yeltsin is ensuring that his trusted colleague from his days as Communist Party chief in Sverdlovsk ( now Yekaterinburg ) remains firmly in charge of all presidential structures . |
| 12 | Mr Brown had Labour conference delegates roaring him on as he said : ‘ He is a Prime Minister who watches football on Saturday , watches cricket on Sunday , watches the pound on Wednesday . |
| 13 | Robinson , 28 , has found other counties unwilling to take him on as they are allowed only one such signing every five years . |
| 14 | Intrigued , and a little afraid of the gyrating shadows that loomed like feathery figures on the walls beside them , the boy kept close to the bent figure , curiosity alive in him , and a strange excitement driving him on as it always did when he was with the old man . |
| 15 | Ducrocq , recognising perhaps Jack 's engineering ability and flying enthusiasm , took him on as his full time mechanic and at the same time began teaching Jack to fly . |
| 16 | Perhaps she would simply lead him on and on into some dark chamber of doubt and fear . |
| 17 | She flirted with him , used him , led him on and asked him favours . |
| 18 | A niggling hip injury , which has troubled him on and off over the past year and hampered his preparation , was closer to the root of his troubles than any age-related downswing . |
| 19 | I 'll make a further prediction that if ‘ Eric the Enigma ’ is substitute , Ferguson will pray for the chance to bring him on and bask in the reception for a stylist after Old Trafford 's heart . |
| 20 | Well , I had known him on and off for about nine years , and my attitude was resentful — you know , I 'm not going to be another notch in his gun belt , and all that , was going on . |
| 21 | Swan was very careful to fly low all the time , keeping just in front of the Gruncher , leading him on and on , threading a path carefully through the great trees in the forest . |
| 22 | The Cortina blasted his horn and waved him on and that was that . |
| 23 | Suffering mistakes and the weariness of life thrusts him back , but the search for truth drives him on and on . |
| 24 | In an interview in The Washington Post published on May 30 , Barry admitted having smoked crack but blamed the federal authorities for having led him on and accused them of having tried to " kill " him by allowing him to consume the illegal drug . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've seen him on and off over the years . ’ |
| 26 | I took him on and we did a massive improvization on the spot and he began to respect me . ’ |
| 27 | Watching every movement , and she put him on and put his blanket on the ground and he was laying there in his handful of this and so she said come to me then and she put something on the floor she said well you know you go to it , I ai n't gon na give it to you and he 's she said well no , you 've got ta try ! |
| 28 | None of them knows for sure if the controlling shareholder , the French government , will keep him on or , in the Gallic equivalent of the kick upstairs , say thank-you and raise him a grade in the Legion d'Honneur . |
| 29 | and he was saying to Neil that erm they do n't know whether they 're gon na keep him on or not |
| 30 | ‘ Wait ! ’ she instructed him furiously as he turned and walked off , but although his steps slowed , he did n't stop , forcing her to follow if she wanted to be heard . |