Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] him [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | How I led him out of the garden and into a rough and stony place where naught but thistles and brambles grow ! |
| 2 | I met him infrequently on the subway journey to and from work . |
| 3 | When the fellow returned I entertained him here in the manor house . |
| 4 | I beat him once in the 1988 Olympics and I know I can beat him again . ’ |
| 5 | I found him here on the floor with his neck broken . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When he was no more than knee high and as slender as a pencil , I dug him out of the wild river bank and planted him in a virginal garden , half an acre of island that consisted of nothing more luxurious or exotic than brick rubble , tilled chalk and grass seed . |
| 9 | He finished packing up his newsletters and I followed him upstairs into the bar . |
| 10 | When he had done I followed him out of the room and shut the door . |
| 11 | I followed him out of the City until I was convinced he was packing up for the day . |
| 12 | ‘ He kissed me on the cheek and I waved him off at the door and watched TV before going to bed . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I hit him again in the same place , a little harder . |
| 15 | I did not know if he was going to attack me or not , but I hit him hard with the side of my sword . |
| 16 | I watched him carefully in the next few days . |
| 17 | ‘ I watched him much of the time , Inspector , ’ said Auguste , an anxious sheepdog watching Alfred 's eyes glaze over . |
| 18 | No , I called him up in the week , in the holiday and I asked him to come to Shelley 's and he said call me back . |
| 19 | I called him through to the kitchen to have his soup . |
| 20 | I called him in from the garden . ’ |
| 21 | " I knew him briefly in the last days before the Rising , but I know of his work of course . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | I saw him once at the beginning of this month . |
| 24 | Could it be that someone took him up on the extravagant wagers he offered constantly during the election and that he 's been forced to three ball his monkey suit to meet his gambling debts ? and then there was the letter in Saturday 's Darlington and Stockton Times from stop-at-home Nick ThorneWallis , Labour chairman of Darlington council 's transport committee . |
| 25 | But dear Caroline 's got an almighty hangover , sick as a dog , so I brought him over on the back of the bike to see it again . |
| 26 | I brought him back to the matter in hand . |
| 27 | I looked him square in the face . |
| 28 | I looked him straight in the eye . |
| 29 | Then , at last , I looked him straight in the eyes . |
| 30 | I looked him straight in the eye . |