Example sentences of "him [adv] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was after noon on the following day before we got a rope round Father and managed to haul him slowly out of the chimney . |
| 2 | They brought him in after dark to their hearths , and answered his questions as well as they could ; and soon they spoke of Master Harry Talvace , drawing up the image of him slowly out of the well of memory . |
| 3 | She pulled Midnight 's head up off the grass , gathered him together and drew him delicately on to the garden path . |
| 4 | Breitenstein ( 1980 : 193 ) gives three different senses for have in its use with the bare infinitive : ( a ) I 'll have him clear up this mess ( an instruction ) ( b ) I wo n't have you say that ( a strong wish ) ( c ) I never had such a thing happen to me ( an experience ) |
| 5 | ‘ Only yesterday the Trunchbull caught a boy called Julius Rottwinkle eating Liquorice Allsorts during the scripture lesson and she simply picked him up by one arm and flung him clear out of the open classroom window . |
| 6 | Her friend came in and said ‘ Reach for the sky ’ and pretended he had a gun and she played along with him right up to the time they left together . |
| 7 | a history which exists eternally in Jesus , who was born in poverty and humility in a manger , who dies abandoned on a cross , and who calls us to follow Him right through to the morning of His resurrection , with its message of hope . |
| 8 | He hates me , and I hate him right back . ’ |
| 9 | He hates me , and I hate him right back . ’ |
| 10 | His behaviour may be such as to demonstrate that his reversion has taken him right back to the use of the ruthlessness which preceded civilisation . |
| 11 | The benefit of this one as well is if , let's just say we , that you knocked him right down on his money force as cheap a buy as possible then ask if you can do a hundred percent . |
| 12 | So we could work towards to knock him right down . |
| 13 | I spotted him right off . |
| 14 | ‘ I flared up at him right off And I told him rd flay him if he ever sought me out again . ’ |
| 15 | More often because of his impatience , it blew back in his face , dusting him all over . |
| 16 | It was going to happen to him all over again , and he was in the worst possible company . |
| 17 | She went in and kissed him all over . |
| 18 | They left her in there , wedged among the wooden boxes and brooms , and bric-a-brac , barely able to move one way or the other , for the next two hours , while they stripped Patsy naked , covered him all over with shoe polish , and locked him out the front of the house for a while to see what it was like being a naked little ‘ nigger boy ’ in Westfield Drive . |
| 19 | Satisfied , she helped him into the bath and began soaping him all over ; as usual , he bawled loudly when it came to washing his hair . |
| 20 | She kissed him and told him all over again , and he was happy . |
| 21 | There was Blind Man 's Buff , and a thing called Find the Penny , in which he himself stood like a statue in the centre of the sitting-room while the boy searched him all over , rifling through his pockets for a hidden coin . |
| 22 | With some half-formed idea of remonstrating with him all over again , she began hesitantly . |
| 23 | How that happened was that Darren , the apple of her grandmotherly eye , was kicked out of the Rainbow Crche for spitting and language , so she dragged him all over till she found the butis . |
| 24 | A nurse led Charlie through to a cubicle where an elderly man in a long white coat made him strip to the waist , cough , stick out his tongue and breathe heavily before prodding him all over with a cold rubber object . |
| 25 | When Pinkie is cornered he sees , as perhaps Joyce did in a Lambeth alley , ‘ Semitic faces ringing him all round . |
| 26 | Saw Dennis Law on T V , and he says that when he first played against Danny , he kicked him all round , all , all over the park . |
| 27 | The big Irishman had been teasing him all along , just to make him look ridiculous in front of all those other men . |
| 28 | It looks like they duped him all along , duped all of us . ’ |
| 29 | He responded defensively , becoming eventually what his enemies had called him all along : a dictator . |
| 30 | Maybe that was why she 'd been so uncharacteristically antagonistic to him all along , she realised now . |