Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Five minutes later she joined him in the Biography alcove . |
| 32 | Three years later she accompanied him on a tour of India . |
| 33 | She did not see Joe for a few days and then one Friday as she walked past she saw him in the teashop and went in to join him . |
| 34 | He stood no taller than his daughter , probably she exceeded him by an inch or two , but he had the shoulders of a bull , and a great head of brindled brown hair laced with grey , like his short , square beard . |
| 35 | ‘ A couple of weeks later they dragged him off the ice in North Harbour . ‘ |
| 36 | Clearly they heard him in the Cornerways flats and in Sea House and in the Dasses ' house and in the lounges of the Queen Victoria Hotel . |
| 37 | Now we place him in a house . |
| 38 | A fortress over the centuries , now it beckoned him with a fine house , The Vines , where once the German commandant had surveyed the desolated scene . |
| 39 | Well we had him for the weekend and er looking back on the weekend we were reasonably impressed with the man and his wife . |
| 40 | I started keeping any post connected with finance away from him , and myself dealt with the usual household accounts such as the telephone and electricity , because even they sent him into a frenzy of checking and referring back to previous demands , an attitude completely alien to his normal temperament . |
| 41 | I met him at Aunt Alicia 's because he rented half the house , and then I helped him with the horses . |
| 42 | And then I lost him among the boulders and small trees that marked the course of the torrent . |
| 43 | Sometimes I joined him in the school room . |
| 44 | There I had him as a charming , affectionate colleague of mature judgment . |
| 45 | Clean it up and then you take him in the . |
| 46 | ’ I just get guys saying , ’ Hey man , I love that film where you bit that guys neck and then you shot him in the head and his brains went spilling all over your face . |
| 47 | And then you dragged him to the altar , or was it the registrar ? — I 've never had an account of the joyful occasion — and then you came back up here , and-you thought you 'd be Queen of Oswaldston , with your little private income , and your nice stone house , and your upper-class ways . ’ |
| 48 | but then you left him for an American carpenter . |
| 49 | Then she woke him with a cup of tea . |
| 50 | Then she took him into a shoe shop — and Pip 's father sold her some new shoes for Anthony . |
| 51 | His T-shirt followed , and his briefs , then she pushed him towards the bed and stripped off her jeans and sweatshirt . |
| 52 | Then she lit him up the stairs , and went before him into the panelled solar , where Rhodri rose from a tall chair by the fire to receive him . |
| 53 | Leaning across she kissed him on the cheek . |
| 54 | Then we dressed him in a new outfit and persuaded him to reveal his own short beard instead of the fake white one . |
| 55 | Then they beat him with the pipes once again , but when they realized that he had managed to keep his secrets from them , that this small Englishman was not for talking , they turned on him in their fury and kicked and beat him until they feared they had killed him . |
| 56 | They may not have made him the finest British light comedian since his hero David Niven , but at least they rescued him from an uncertain future in Britain where he may have ended up as a cross between Roy Castle and Ronnie Corbett . |
| 57 | Unfortunately he phoned him in the middle of the night . |
| 58 | He turned instinctively against the wind , or nearly , for that way was easiest to control and fortunately it took him towards the greatest darkness . |
| 59 | Sometimes he fancied him in the room , and said , ‘ I must just speak to John Bunyan ; he 's over there … |
| 60 | Then he jabbed him in the ribs again . |