Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Iron Josh beckoned him down , and Denis knelt beside him in the cart . |
| 2 | Ma peered at him over the top of the evening paper , Her eyes were shifty with guilt . |
| 3 | Like one , all six typewriters stopped and six pairs of eyes gazed at him above the machines . |
| 4 | Her lips came towards him through the darkness , he felt the touch of her fingers at the most erotic points of his body . |
| 5 | Before she could utter the cry of alarm which rose in her throat his hand had closed over her mouth , and Paige 's startled eyes blinked at him over the top . |
| 6 | Simon 's big head and loose mouth loomed above him against the ridiculous English summer sky , which was the color of iron . |
| 7 | At the same time , the sound of distant gunfire , explosions and shouting came to him on the night breeze , somewhere off his right and muffled by the intervening trees . |
| 8 | Since it was the golden-fleeced ram the king really wanted , he was not at all pleased when Marko came before him on the seventh day with a jug of sweet wine and a cluster of grapes in his handkerchief . |
| 9 | The boy walked beside him from the Post Office to Lipton 's , talking about the secret that was safe between them , pursuing him into the shop itself . |
| 10 | Tina walked towards him in the rain-washed playground while Jack looked warily round for her brother . |
| 11 | A fist flew towards him on the screen , filled it as it made apparent impact and then vanished away . |
| 12 | Edward was kitted up and ready to go , and Benson went with him to the car , which was ticking over outside the control tower . |
| 13 | Hammond looked about him at the bare white walls , then nodded . |
| 14 | Maggie looked at him with the light of love as she kissed him good night . |
| 15 | There was no time for him to get up the steps and past the door before it opened and deadly talons reached for him in the darkness . |
| 16 | A shudder ran through him at the touch of her fingers and he drew her closer , crushing her against the powerful length of his body so that she could feel his heart thundering against her breast . |
| 17 | ‘ My wife does n't want you hanging around her like a pet dog , ’ Nahum said to him after the service one Sunday morning . |
| 18 | Rincewind glared at him in the hellish purple glow . |
| 19 | Loneliness stole across him at the strangest times . |
| 20 | Donald Crubach played to him by the hour . |
| 21 | When Christian left for London to begin his new life in the Methodist ministry , Seb took him to the railway station at Shipton-under-Wychwood in the farm 's gig and Carrie came with him for the ride . |
| 22 | Willi glanced at him in the mirror and thought he still did n't look too good . |
| 23 | Elinor looked at him over the rim of her magazine . |
| 24 | But now , a week after Easter , his failure stared at him from the empty pews . |
| 25 | After a little he rose , and Winnie went with him into the sitting-room . |
| 26 | His wife Elaine stood by him throughout the controversy . |
| 27 | Blackberry did not answer and Hazel and Bigwig hopped towards him along the verge . |
| 28 | Descartes never questioned his beliefs about how things seemed to him at the time ; he asked instead how he could know other things , such as the existence of God or of a material world . |
| 29 | In one account of the visit , it is said that the Emperor was loathe to allow the doctor to leave China and did so only after Garvine appealed to him on the grounds that he wished to return to Scotland and attend to his aged and ailing father . |
| 30 | The wall at his back flowed around him with the softness of feathers . |