Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] him [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 He wrote round to fifteen builders on 22nd March and , with what today would be regarded as incredible naïveté , asked them to meet him together at the Office of Works on 24th March .
2 I met him infrequently on the subway journey to and from work .
3 So I push him backwards into the mountain of stinking rubbish , and he sinks down on it .
4 When the fellow returned I entertained him here in the manor house .
5 I beat him once in the 1988 Olympics and I know I can beat him again . ’
6 I found him here on the floor with his neck broken .
7 As I understood , he was asleep for much of the time , and indeed , I found him so on the few occasions I had a spare moment to ascend to that little attic room .
8 I want him here until the end of his career . ’
9 So to impress him I told him briefly of the four stages of polio — first the porodomal , second the muscle pain , then the period of muscle destruction which usually took no longer than fourteen days , and finally the period of repair .
10 He finished packing up his newsletters and I followed him upstairs into the bar .
11 I worked him quietly through the autumn , teaching him how to work in the correct outline , maintaining his balance and an even rein contact , progressing to transitions , turns , serpentines and learning about length bend , rhythm and total obedience .
12 ‘ May I have him home to the abbey ?
13 I hit him again in the same place , a little harder .
14 I did not know if he was going to attack me or not , but I hit him hard with the side of my sword .
15 I watched him carefully in the next few days .
16 I watched him much of the time , Inspector , ’ said Auguste , an anxious sheepdog watching Alfred 's eyes glaze over .
17 " I knew him briefly in the last days before the Rising , but I know of his work of course .
18 ‘ I had known David for quite a long time ; we come from Cambridge and I knew him vaguely in the early days — I remember when he joined the Floyd in fact — and I 'd seen him socially over the years .
19 I saw him once at the beginning of this month .
20 I looked him square in the face .
21 I looked him straight in the eye .
22 Then , at last , I looked him straight in the eyes .
23 I looked him straight in the eye .
24 I kept him away from the old man .
25 I sent him right in the opposite direction .
26 His hands were everywhere , so I kicked him hard in the ankle and told him exactly where to go .
27 He went for the machine-gun , but someone kicked him hard in the back of the head .
28 I thank him also for the history lesson on the Territorial Army , although my recollection is somewhat different .
29 I tugged him gently along the walkway , which was made of planks , I discovered , with short mooring posts sticking up at intervals , needing me to lift his legs over one at a time .
30 He left a Will which places him firmly in the central Anglican tradition :
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