Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took another deep breath — I only wanted to see him for half an hour — and said what I could . |
| 2 | I had n't , I 'd borrowed it from Duncan but I 'd heard the Hell 's Angel crack so many times before I suddenly decided to charge him for it . |
| 3 | I much enjoyed having him as my guest . |
| 4 | I realized I just had to accept him for what he was , and when I learnt to do that , he did the same to me - accepted me without question , in all my imperfection , in all that made me unworthy of him . |
| 5 | I thought he looked so lost and unhappy that I just wanted to comfort him at first , and Chris says he just thought I was kind . |
| 6 | Mrs Rumney held the door wide as I finally managed to steer him towards it but the big dog was n't finished yet . |
| 7 | I always intended to visit him after the war , but you know how it is : things were difficult , I was confoundedly busy at the University , I did n't particularly want to see Viola again though you 've got to swallow the pill with the jam , have n't you , and there was no particular reason why I should n't see her again . |
| 8 | And I hardly got to know him at all . |
| 9 | From now until the catastrophe of 1870 the Emperor 's foreign policy was to be one of expedients and compromises , all of which only served to demean him in the eyes of Europe , while simultaneously underlining how feeble was any form of ‘ court diplomacy ’ faced with the reality of Bismarck 's ‘ blood and iron ’ tactics . |
| 10 | He was so quick to forgive personal insults and injuries that it was said that you only had to injure him in order to have him as a friend for life . |
| 11 | She constantly needed to caution him about the many dangers he was either too young or too stupid to recognize for himself . |
| 12 | Guy Sterne 's smile was dry as she finally emerged to join him by the outdoor pools , her expression almost serene . |
| 13 | At first sight it might seem that Urban was hardly in a position to provide it ; he was without military resources of his own , and depended on such allies as he had to defend him against the Emperor Henry IV , who still refused to recognize him as pope . |
| 14 | And she really began to hate him with such little strength as she had left . |
| 15 | The masher 's intended victim was not quite so indecisive ; far from taking the opportunity to run off , leaving St George to fight the dragon on his own , she had taken the opportunity once her attacker 's attention had been diverted from her to remove her right shoe , and she now proceeded to attack him from the rear , pounding him first about the head and shoulders with the shoe , and then with her handbag shrieking , ‘ Take that , you cowardly bully , and that , ’ leaving him open to any attack Neil might care to make . |
| 16 | A paper boy on his morning round was grabbed by a man who then tried to drag him into a waiting car . |
| 17 | Now , to confound her , there was that man — if she truly had recognised him in the wreck she had seen . |
| 18 | The lovely Polish mezzo Stefania Toczyska , who had three arias of her own , as well as joining Carreras in duets from Cavalleria Rusticana , Il Trovatore and Carmen , was also permitted a single encore before she quietly disappeared to leave him in sole charge . |
| 19 | The German was too heavy for her to drag down the steps , so she reluctantly decided to push him off the catwalk . |
| 20 | The two claimed in court they only intended to scare him into giving information about their property . |
| 21 | He also threatened to drag him down the street handcuffed to the bumper of his car . |
| 22 | He then tried to toss him in the air . |