Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] and [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ronni pulled herself together and looked him in the eye . |
| 2 | He looked as though a cannonball had hit him amidships and left him with a hollow chest and a permanent arch in his back . |
| 3 | Then awaken him gently and present him with the bill . |
| 4 | She drew him inside and led him towards the candle-light . |
| 5 | We can assume that his scepticism extended to his belief in the efficacy of non-violence because he notes that reading Tolstoy influenced him greatly and cured him of his scepticism making him a believer again in ahi sā . |
| 6 | When he came round , they dragged him outside and flung him in his night-clothes , into a car and handcuffed him . |
| 7 | I sat him up , took him outside and injected him with some dangerously powerful drugs . |
| 8 | Gently , he carried him outside and put him in the basket . |
| 9 | It was n't just Frank they were looking for , if they had n't shot him already and buried him in some bog . |
| 10 | Oliver was led away to be locked up , and a reward was offered to anybody who would take him away and use him for work . |
| 11 | Bonkers ; let us put him away and keep him under sedation and have done with him , " That was the way their minds worked . |
| 12 | Owen laboured over the living , mending them as best he could , and over the dead , making them ready for burial , until he fell and lay like dead beside the last of them , but still conscious and aware , and Adam and some of those who had come with the priest to their aid carried him away and bedded him in quietness in one of the cottages . |
| 13 | A man pulled him backwards and pushed him against a wall . |
| 14 | She held out a hand and , when he took it , heaved him upright and pulled him towards the bedroom . |
| 15 | It was tempting to march him home and face him with my sewing machine and its 10-point threader . |
| 16 | He was originally held in Safi Prison , where he developed diabetes in 1988 , but was then transferred to Marrakech where his family lives , and so could visit him regularly and provide him with the food necessary for his diabetic diet . |
| 17 | He was walking off when I reached out , grabbed him again and slapped him across the head . |
| 18 | George cracked him again and hauled him off the cart . |
| 19 | You haul him upstairs and throw him on the bed ; he struggles and tries to shout . |
| 20 | And he was sure that the man was begging now , for he was holding out his other hand with the palm upwards ; except that then O thought that maybe the gesture had another meaning , maybe the man was extending his hand in the hope that some passer by might take it , grasp it firmly and pull him to his feet . |