Example sentences of "him through the " in BNC.

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1 She could see him through the shutters — a big man , a Berber , a kind-looking man with bright blue eyes and tattoos .
2 I took a photo of him through the glass .
3 He thought of the autumn day fourteen years before when his father had taken him through the hills towards Morar .
4 We were now face to face with this man of diverse talent — poet , novelist , song-writer , performer — after following his career for nearly two decades , reading his books , playing his records , watching him sing , reading of him through the eyes of his critics — no easy feat when one is not inhibited by astigmatism !
5 Winning the French Open took him through the door , down the passage , into the street and out into the sunshine Fame .
6 Yet oddly enough when Massine staged his Donald of the Burthens with the help of a Scottish expert to guide him through the traditional steps and figures it was not a success , possibly because too much reliance was placed .
7 As they walked away from him through the greenness , the pale blue above them , Maggie said , her voice thick with emotion , ‘ Daddy is just lovely when he 's like that . ’
8 Wexford followed him through the pleached walk and they entered the house by a glazed garden door .
9 His counsel , Mr Thomas Shields , told Mr Justice Popplewell that the article , headed : ‘ Fash : I 'd have knocked him through the wall .
10 He had a manual of casual jobs — things like grape-picking , which had got him through the summer .
11 So I clung to him through the poetry I went on helping him to write .
12 His fellow sentry stabbed him through the throat . ’
13 Still peering from the corner of his eye , Frankie stared at her breasts for a long time before he realized with a jolt that she was observing him through the mirror .
14 She pushed past him through the doorway , her hands full of salt cellar , Vinegar bottle , sauce bottle and pickle jar .
15 Luckily Thoth , possessing more compassion than he 'd dared hope , soothed him through the transitional period .
16 In the end the man became so nervous that I had to hold his arm and literally steer him through the crowd to the right spot .
17 She followed him through the drawing room and into the bedroom where Mrs Browning , a thick shawl round her shoulders , sat up in bed .
18 They gave up and chased after him through the thin trees .
19 It may be that Borg realised quite soon that family life was not going to carry him through the great silence left behind by his renunciation of that terrible drug , competitiveness .
20 But Connors has taken no serious breaks from the game and its stylistic progress ; his game in itself has durable , idiosyncratic features ( whereas Borg 's became the prototype on which newcomers based their own playing patterns ) ; and he has been able to take his audience along with him through the very gradual decline in his competitive expectations .
21 But while many small traders blame the lenders for many of their difficulties Mr Miller says the Royal Bank of Scotland has helped him through the downturn by being flexible .
22 Devon Malcolm was not sparing himself on a pitch which was offering help to all the bowlers but Waugh seemed to have a ridiculous amount of time to ease him through the leg field twice in an over for two of his 10 boundaries .
23 Sometimes his mother chased him through the apartment , striking at him while he dodged and ducked , crying , ‘ Look out Mom , look out now !
24 She glimpsed him through the glass walls of his studio as she walked past , his watch nailed to a tree so that he could see the time .
25 Your reward , as carer , is knowing that you have done your best to make the patient comfortable and happy , and to help him through the recovery process from his illness , however long it takes .
26 I 'd been caddying for Ralph Moffatt on the pro circuit and got him through the pre-qualifier at Fairhaven , so I told him I 'd be caddying for him in the Open as I 'd heard nothing from Jack .
27 Ted was a natural , so unless he managed to find a right-hander to take him through the Backdoor , he was always looking over his shoulder .
28 Mr Corcoran had stared stonily at him through the pince-nez fastened on to his thin beak of a nose .
29 He turned , watching the priest coming towards him through the falling snow .
30 The emperor , however , was not inclined to intervene for his own amusement , but to take cases which came to him through the hierarchy of appeal .
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