Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] him [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes too he would take duck and geese as they floated on some high lochan , coming on them so low along the ground that they only saw him when the massive darkness of his wings came over the peat edge and shadowed out their life . |
| 2 | She raised her arm and flung it hard at him , not caring where it hit him , wanting only to hurt him as the whole world had hurt her ; wanting to see his cold , impassive face break with ordinary human emotion . |
| 3 | One of the few occasions I ever saw him and the only one in which we sat face to face . |
| 4 | They had also taught him that the first thing to do with a wounded man was clear his breathing . |
| 5 | Will he also tell him that the first priority must be to reform the common agricultural policy , to remove the losses from fraud which occur within that policy and , especially , to bring about a successful conclusion to the GATT negotiations ? |
| 6 | Although it struck him as being perfectly right and natural to tear a seven-year-old boy away from his parents and send him ‘ home ’ to be educated , it also struck him that the English public school system was iniquitous , a hotbed of beatings and buggery . |
| 7 | But I threw it away and wrote instead to tell him that the Victorian nonsense was his , not ours , since the rule was imposed on us by Parliament . |