Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] him [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was once in the olden days a giant who lived on Penhill who had all below him in the dale in his thrall . |
| 2 | She sat down opposite him at the kitchen table and fixed him with the kind of look that usually preceded a full eighteen-round contest . |
| 3 | She could cope well enough with him in the office where their point of contact was work , but occasional moments — like last Saturday , sitting in the sunshine in the garden of her flat , and today on the train — had shown her a glimpse of Luke the man , not simply Luke the employer . |
| 4 | He had pulled her down with him into the whirlpool of love , and now that she was submerged and drowning he had left her , escaping through the cloaking mist that hung over the water . |
| 5 | He looked up at her and smiled and she lay down with him on the grass in the sun . |
| 6 | Fergus had motioned him to sit down with him behind the hide , and to keep quiet . |
| 7 | You see , we 'd got such confidence that she told me that when he died , she said , ‘ He died in his bed here ’ , that we were in , you see ; and she said , ‘ I then closed his eyes and I laid down with him till the morning so that nobody should be disturbed . ’ |
| 8 | Although the Nigeria debate was a relative success after a year of criticism , its significance was not lost on Law : it was held on the subject central to Unionist economic attitudes ; Law and Steel-Maitland were singled out for censure , a pointer to the level of party discontent Party feeling had built up much as Law 's own had done ; having fought off the direct attack , he took the party along with him in the effort to reconstruct the government on more businesslike lines . |
| 9 | Easily distinguishable in his bird-lime-encrusted shirt and shorts , he often had a look in his eye that spoke of clouds and freedom , rather than the shin-splitting hordes bearing down on him in the shape of the Corton Heath Corinthians . |
| 10 | Oh , hello … ’ the Doctor replied , not able to tell who was bearing down on him in the fog . |
| 11 | Small boys spat down on him from the safety of high windows and their mothers clenched their buttocks and turned away their glowing cheeks . |
| 12 | If it be objected that no beginning writer shops around in this way among the idioms handed down to him from the past , the evidence is that certain beginning writers do shop around in just this way ; Ezra Pound was one of them , and he is by no means so exceptional as is supposed . |
| 13 | What decisions , made arbitrarily and in anger , would be handed down to him in the morning ? |
| 14 | It 's a rare person who can ignore a letter sent personally to him over the signature of Clint Eastwood or Charlton Heston , saying ‘ I need your help ’ . |
| 15 | You 're letting in a draught , ’ whispered Izzie , sitting down beside him in the tail of the wagon . |
| 16 | ‘ And do n't dare tell me it 's going to be too tough for a woman , ’ Mariana shouted , as she glared down at him from the saloon . |
| 17 | After a few minutes , he became aware of Peter Dawson 's portrait staring down at him from the top of the piano , and he stopped . |
| 18 | A week later he was in the chair at a meeting of the Humanist Society when he suddenly had a vision of Bill Brice looking down at him from the moulding in the corner of the ceiling with a crown of thorns on his head , and look of sweet forgiveness on his face ; whereupon he stood up and made a long , confused speech about the hunger for God that gnawed inside each of us , however stiff-necked and jeering we might be ; which caused great embarrassment to all those present , and even greater embarrassment later to progressive theologians on the staff , who felt that such old-fashioned emotive conversions could only undo all their good work . |
| 19 | Oliver was very surprised ; this was the same man he had bumped into once outside a pub , and seen another time with Fagin , looking in at him through the window of the country cottage . |
| 20 | And mummy 's smiling in at him from the outside , look she 's hanging the washing out pretending not to notice what 's going on . |
| 21 | It crept stealthily towards him over the mud , advancing , retreating , advancing again like a living creature stalking its prey . |
| 22 | The others pushed on past him in the doorway , but they too stopped when they saw what was revealed on the other side of the windows . |
| 23 | Sergeant Kidd returned to his patrol car to answer the insistent calls coming through for him on the radio . |
| 24 | And he picked up Gabriel with just one arm round his hips , and stumped stolidly away with him to the privacy of the inn . |
| 25 | He took it away with him for the weekend , to his home in Oxfordshire . |
| 26 | His mother , who had spent longer with him in the garden than usual that day , led him into the sitting room when they returned to the house . |
| 27 | The 31-year-old British No.1 , who put out seventh seed Michael Chang en route to the fourth round 12 months ago , opens against Argentinian clay court specialist Javier Frana , ranked just above him in the world at 87 . |
| 28 | The ravine widened and opened upon the sly , the curtain-wall with its vast bulk of darkness curved away from him to the right , and left him . |
| 29 | The summons of Winchelsey to Rome only served to redirect baronial irritation away from him to the pope . |
| 30 | The same powers which took my friend 's video away from him at the airport and threatened his livelihood into the bargain , have routinely been used against our whole culture . |