Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [vb base] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 A crowd of eager customers would be awaiting his arrival outside the shops and attack him for the particular colour , size or style of dress they had been waiting for .
2 He eventually let go of me and I had to go the bottom of the baths and bring him to the surface , take him to the side and get him breathing again , and I was considered a failure for that .
3 I wipe my lips and follow him to the door .
4 But a combination of factors , including a high proportion of broken or at least deteriorating homes and single-parent families , an absence of parent-child contact due to migration and possibly compounded by the necessity of devoting excessive time to earning a living and , as I will argue shortly , a distorted appreciation of the parent 's function vis-à-vis education crystallize to release the black youth from the influence of his parents and jettison him into a world in which his peers , with whom he shares the common experience of being black in a white society , are the dominant forces .
5 I shall have to leave the world of concrete numerable objects and follow him into a world of imagination where numbers themselves have discernible characteristics , or may hide , waiting to be discovered .
6 His cheerful London accent seemed to bring her back down to earth , and she hurried to unlock the bolts and let him into the hallway .
7 Judaism and Islam could be called polytheistic religions in the sense that they do contain traditions that represent Jews and Moslems as called upon to choose one of several gods and follow Him to the exclusion of others .
8 He delivered a ringing First Amendment call to arms , enjoining the assembled audience of about 2,000 people to step forward from the sidelines and join him on the battlefield to protect the artist 's right to express himself as he wishes , unhindered by the tastes or intrusions of the government .
9 Boys who would turn into men and follow him round the world , stand beside him at bars , exchange vulgarities , share the favours of the golf groupies , the young girls and some not so young , who hung around any group of sportsmen .
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