Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [prep] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like one , all six typewriters stopped and six pairs of eyes gazed at him above the machines . |
| 2 | Her lips came towards him through the darkness , he felt the touch of her fingers at the most erotic points of his body . |
| 3 | His performance was pitiful , five goals flew past him from a bewildering array of angles , and in one pathetic ritual he ended up wrapped round the goal-post , in a knot of utter hopelessness . |
| 4 | Before she could utter the cry of alarm which rose in her throat his hand had closed over her mouth , and Paige 's startled eyes blinked at him over the top . |
| 5 | The words burst from him in an angry rush , and she glanced at him in surprise . |
| 6 | There was no time for him to get up the steps and past the door before it opened and deadly talons reached for him in the darkness . |
| 7 | A swarm of ghosts gyred around him in a multiple helix , allowed some measure of self-determination by his preoccupation , furtively snatching their existence from his body and his mind . |
| 8 | Descartes never questioned his beliefs about how things seemed to him at the time ; he asked instead how he could know other things , such as the existence of God or of a material world . |
| 9 | But Mr Chadwin said when police officers spoke to him in the early hours of the following morning when he was in the car with Miss Jeanette near Catterick Bridge they had not noticed any dramatic injuries . |
| 10 | But ultimately the test is whether the buyer could fairly and reasonably refuse to accept the physical goods proffered to him on the ground that their failure to correspond with what was said about them makes them goods of a different kind from those he had agreed to buy . |
| 11 | Coming to the end of his account , he remembered the fate of the mason-overseer , Khaemhet , held responsible for the security of the prisoners deputed to him for the journey from the granite quarries to the Southern Capital . |
| 12 | The two clergymen went with him on a trip to Laeken near Brussels . |
| 13 | One of William 's friends skated with him on a path |
| 14 | The other travellers tottered towards him through the throng of birds . |
| 15 | Every one of the dead men ached in him like an amputation . |
| 16 | The thing 's entrails writhed around him like the tentacles of a daemonic octopus . |
| 17 | Coroner Ronald O'Doherty said the boy had died five hours after the insecure steel goal-posts fell on him at the Derry City Council ground . |