Example sentences of "[pers pn] and [verb] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | You 'll be doing him a favour , she 'd thought , and so as he wandered past the kitchen on a mid-afternoon stroll she crept up behind him and grabbed him by the neck . |
| 32 | Malik practically ran at him and grabbed him by the lapels . |
| 33 | He requests that I accompany him and pipe him into the restaurant . |
| 34 | It nauseated him and wakened him in the night with a palpitating heart . |
| 35 | ‘ Does yer mother know yer out ? ’ shouted one of the lads and then all at once they charged at him and manhandled him to the ground . |
| 36 | Surely the lightning stroke of heaven should have fallen upon him and destroyed him in the very deed . ’ |
| 37 | Perhaps it was n't a deliberate attack at all , just a further slip that struck him and swept him across the path . |
| 38 | " In his seventh year his [ foster ] father took him and placed him in the care of a man of experience and promptly sent him abroad with him to learn foreign languages and begin at once to study books . |
| 39 | A very spruce maid welcomed him and showed him into the Bishop 's drawing-room . |
| 40 | he passed out that killed him and found him in the garden , it took four years to find him |
| 41 | ‘ We 're not playing , Connelly , ’ Farrell told him and pulled him across the hot and clammy room . |
| 42 | Davidson told him and furnished him with the office copy . |
| 43 | In a flash Perdita closed on him and bashed him across the knuckles with her stick . |
| 44 | Resorting to a dog-like whine , he complained to Theo : ‘ The dog feels that if they keep him , it will only mean putting up with him and tolerating him in the house , so he will try and find another kennel . ’ |
| 45 | The man threatened to kill him and pushed him off the balcony . ’ |
| 46 | ‘ I went to the front of the house and saw the dogs catch up with him and knock him to the ground . |
| 47 | He is himself unreadable and hence ungovernable — a walking accusation levelled at the sympathetic educated sensibility which seeks simultaneously to understand him and set him on the straight and narrow . |
| 48 | She closed the door behind her and joined him on the pavement and as she took several breaths of the crisp October air she suddenly felt how good it was to be alive . |
| 49 | ‘ We 'll have to snap him out of it and keep him to the exercises or he 'll ruin himself . ’ |