Example sentences of "[vb past] him [prep] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He diagnosed that his concentration on getting to know the clergy and the church people prevented him from moving among the wider community as he should . |
| 2 | even prevented him from getting to the outside privy ( ‘ Jericho ’ ) must have been severe indeed … |
| 3 | I joined him in gazing at the large red lump forming just below the joint and we mused together . |
| 4 | Leon sucked his way carefully round his host 's person and joined him in gazing at the red plastic blob . |
| 5 | The emphasis of the New Testament is that Christ resisted the temptations thrown at him and it was this that qualified him for dying on the cross . |
| 6 | I asked him about going to the Highlands and seeing the wonderful colours there and he just looked at me and said ‘ too amorphous ’ . |
| 7 | The ambition was what Gains , in his autobiography , calls the ‘ impossible dream ’ ; the colour line effectively prohibited him from challenging for the world title , though he did beat George Godfrey for the black version of the championship in 1928 . |
| 8 | He clung to a tree root until his cousin saved him from slipping into the abyss , |
| 9 | Firefighters cut the man free as ambulance workers saved him from drowning after the accident in Teesdale . |
| 10 | McQueen was accompanied on location by Ali MacGraw , whom he had met on The Getaway , and whose presence he admitted saved him from going round the bend . |
| 11 | A second charge accused him of having between the same dates — July 1 and August 20 , 1993 — attempted to force Mr McIvor to refrain from giving evidence at the trial of Stephen Wilson . |