Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [adv] [verb] him [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She apologized for slowing him down and twice advised him to leave her . |
| 2 | I wept and I hugged my father and I even hugged Diggs , smelling his hard-blue uniform fabric as I did so and almost feeling him melt and believe me . |
| 3 | I felt that she may have either directly or indirectly encouraged him to make this decision for several reasons : she was suffering ; she knew that he was n't going to leave the hospital and she accepted that ; and she did n't like seeing him talk himself into more suffering for him and for her ; and I do n't think there 's any question that in some sense she must have gotten this across to him that he ought to give up much more than anyone else . |
| 4 | So Harrison had lost the first fall unfairly : in the second he had twisted his man feet up and then let him crash to the ground . |
| 5 | They made him dig a grave in the rocky ground at 1.00 am and then forced him to lie in it while they shovelled earth over him . |
| 6 | And I just stood there and just watched him blow lead . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Well he lives in that little cottage at the bottom of the steep pitch just past the green , ’ Joe continued with a grin , ‘ as he staggers down the hill his legs have to go faster and faster to stop him falling on his face . ’ |