Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] [prep] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There on the television monitors was a body lying alone in the middle of the track with his seat still strapped to him like a pilot 's parachute pack . |
| 2 | He looked with amusement at her small , vivacious figure almost bouncing alongside him with effervescent high spirits . |
| 3 | Burton arrived at the first rehearsal word-perfect and with the part already sewn on him like a skin . |
| 4 | His life would be a charade , for every time he took her in his arms he would see the face of the girl now smiling at him in a way which lit fires in his heart . |
| 5 | Soon he was taken away : a uniformed guard simply beckoned to him through the half-open door . |
| 6 | The national Labour defeat , of course , denies Mr Mandelson the government post widely predicted for him as a consequence of his guru status within his party ; the Hartlepool runner-up , radio and PR man Mr Graham Robb , put up the Conservative vote by a thousand but was still 8,782 adrift . |
| 7 | The Factory Whistle he had already read , in the handsome new edition personally inscribed to him by Viola Machin ( ‘ To Gregory Hocking a very good friend to both Walter 's widows — from Viola Machin ’ ) . |
| 8 | He had a picture in his mind of the layout of passage , stairs and landing , a picture unwittingly painted for him by the man who had retrieved his wallet . |
| 9 | Perhaps she would get the chance later to talk to him about the ledgers . |
| 10 | Where he comes in and he does that piss and he 's and Madonna 's standing there looking at him like this and she 's just looking at him and she 's going , anyone who can keep it up that long and he 's just sitting there going er no he 's going er and she 's going , she 's going , and she 's coming round like that trying to look at him , I could n't stop laughing . |
| 11 | In fact , on the evidence available , it appears that the Swedish court , under the procedure applicable in that country , could admit in evidence Price 's retraction in this country of the evidence previously given by him in Sweden . |
| 12 | I did not then have a chance actually to converse with him until that second evening after the return of his illness . |
| 13 | His doom still hung over him like a sword . |
| 14 | Chen took a deep breath then looked about him at the banks of monitors that filled every wall of the huge , hexagonal room , impressed despite himself . |
| 15 | Buddie suddenly reached behind him with one hand , grabbed Frankie by the sleeve and yanked him from his seat at the table . |
| 16 | It was only because it was so rare that Stair ever troubled with him at all these days that Neil felt compelled to go along with him , willy-nilly . |
| 17 | " I do , " agreed Matthew , thinking that old Coleworthy was a very different kettle of fish from the man now staring at him with slightly belligerent blue eyes . |
| 18 | Foremost among his worries was a storyline from a writer initially recommended to him by Dennis Spooner — Terry Nation . |
| 19 | The same thing always happened to him at school if he was brought out to the front of the hall for talking in assembly , or if he had to stand in the aisle with his hands on his head for not paying attention in class . |
| 20 | FALKLANDS war hero Simon Weston is to tackle an 800-mile journey in America on a £2,000 cycle specially designed for him by the Lotus car company . |
| 21 | When the TV star subsequently referred to him in interviews as ‘ an extortionist ’ and ‘ a tennis show pimp ’ , the angry Edwards brought two $10 million suits against Hall for defamation suits which were thrown out of court this March . |
| 22 | The president , in the modern age , is the key political actor and the public constantly looks to him for initiatives , services and solutions . |
| 23 | His part in the murder proceedings had attracted unwelcome publicity ; the tabloid press invariably referred to him as ‘ the Shropshire Sherlock ’ , a nickname which had not afforded his rustic constituents much pleasure . |
| 24 | An OTC dealer loyally argued against him with a vigour that is rarely seen in a university environment . |