Example sentences of "[Wh det] [adv] [vb past] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other five Israelis escaped , but one , Yair Yitzhaki , was again abducted by another JKLF group which eventually released him to a group of journalists on July 3 . |
| 2 | He obtained the second by pretending to trip over an unseen obstacle , which inadvertently threw him against the foreman , knocking him to the ground and depositing his daily schedule papers all over the floor . |
| 3 | After a hesitant start , the other leftwing and progressive parties who were defeated in the first round have joined Mr Da Silva 's campaign , along with the Socialist and Communist parties , which already supported him in the Popular Front coalition . |
| 4 | Here they are reinvoked to discredit Wilde , yet in a way which still acknowledged him as a threat . |
| 5 | In a nonsense poem addressed to Virginia Woolf he described himself as " upper-middle " , a class distinction which immediately associated him with the kind of solid and respectable Englishmen amongst whom he passed his business life and to whom he went for — to use one of the characteristic words — " convivial " social life . |
| 6 | Elizabeth gave him a push , which almost toppled him to the ground ! |
| 7 | He pushed his bicycle up the hill from Wheatley station in the company of another new student who had a strangely similar background : of nonconformist origins , with his father an official of a nonconformist Church ; a young man who postponed his own confirmation into the Church of England because his parents might be hurt ; and who swung at the university from his very Protestant background into a sense of the devotional stature in Anglo-Catholicism , and into convictions which never left him for the rest of his life ; a graduate of Balliol College , by name Austin Farrer . |