Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] him [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She goes on to accuse him and the others of , as it were , defining themselves into respectability : ‘ They are not prepared to count as concept or understanding anything which does not involve speech . ’ |
| 2 | She raised her arm and flung it hard at him , not caring where it hit him , wanting only to hurt him as the whole world had hurt her ; wanting to see his cold , impassive face break with ordinary human emotion . |
| 3 | McLeish reached out to steady him and the man looked up at him , unseeingly . |
| 4 | Perhaps Alec noticed that I did not ridicule him as the others did . |
| 5 | Constance did not understand him but the last word , strangely rhythmic and warm to her ears , stuck in her mind . |
| 6 | Though he was bound to give priority to Italy and to the Hellenistic East in his negative analysis of Roman rule , it did not escape him that the barbarous West was involved in the crisis . |
| 7 | He does this because of their naivity ; they are more honest about their thoughts and feelings , and do not judge him as the adults do . |
| 8 | He knew himself to be a magical dropout , so it did n't bother him that the mere appearance of a hero at the city gates was enough to cause retorts to explode and demons to materialise all through the Magical Quarter . |
| 9 | They were the disciples of one Malam Ibrahim , a teacher of the Koran whose studies had slowly convinced him that the Jesus of whom he read in its pages was the mediator through whom the prayers of the faithful are offered up to the All-Merciful . |
| 10 | She had already recognised him and the grey . |
| 11 | It had always distressed him that the West and the Eastern bloc could both budget so generously for what he considered to be the evils of the nuclear industry while millions in the Third World were left wanting for food . |
| 12 | But he was soon to find that Tolkien had more to offer him than the chance to learn Old Norse . |
| 13 | They had also taught him that the first thing to do with a wounded man was clear his breathing . |
| 14 | But I threw it away and wrote instead to tell him that the Victorian nonsense was his , not ours , since the rule was imposed on us by Parliament . |
| 15 | No , I have n't seen him since the . |