Example sentences of "[vb past] him [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed like a minor miracle when she found herself seated within touching distance of the small group of musicians , until she realised that Rune was well-known here , not only by the management but , as the current number drew to a triumphant close , to the players as well , as they drew him on to the low rostrum and surrounded him with much back-slapping and laughter . |
| 2 | Culshaw , who knew Karajan better than any of these armchair pundits , noted that since Karajan had never been interested in interpretation for interpretation 's sake — which perhaps helps explain why his readings often outlast those of more ‘ personalized ’ rivals — he naturally diverted his attention to new projects , musical , technological , scientific , logistical , until circumstances or new thinking drew him back to the central repertoire that he had recorded earlier , with other orchestras , other technology . |
| 3 | The man ducked , weaving to his left so that Trent 's fist caught him high on the right cheek . |
| 4 | She caught him up in a breathless embrace , then gave a little gasp of alarm as she seemed to notice the two policemen for the first time . |
| 5 | Botham had the first six wickets before Marshall and Baptiste held him up for while , Marshall being lucky not to be on the wrong end of a legendary catch when Don Topley , a groundstaff boy who went on to play for Essex , brilliantly caught him one-handed on the square leg boundary , only to put one foot over the rope . |
| 6 | She fixed him suddenly with a beady stare from beneath the crêpy lids . |
| 7 | Korda let him out on a three-picture deal with Fox , continued to pay him $15,000 a year but would take a large slice of what Fox paid him : from the three pictures Richard would earn about £80,000 . |
| 8 | The miniature St Christopher on it had a brief treat before Sorrel cooled him off in no uncertain terms . |
| 9 | But he was smiling as they helped him out of the herbaceous border . |
| 10 | But Fidway 's Cheltenham supporters can also claim a little bad luck — the winner Royal Gait bumped him just after the final flight . |
| 11 | To those who did not respond to his sad soliloquies on the terrible social stigma which must naturally fall upon the parents who forbade their own child the opportunity of gainful employment and condemned him instead to a living purgatory of dole-queue misery , there was always the wall of shame , upon which their names must be forever writ in letters big , for destroying the glorious reputation of the school . |
| 12 | Their patient was a man in his late thirties , and Kathleen recognised him immediately with a sinking heart . |
| 13 | His aunt recognised him immediately as the well-known local ‘ drug squad ’ detective . |
| 14 | Before he could do anything more another wave lifted him high into the foam-filled wind , then dizzyingly dropped him down into a hole in the ocean . |
| 15 | Jack filled him in on the scanty information they had already obtained . |
| 16 | When he was no more than knee high and as slender as a pencil , I dug him out of the wild river bank and planted him in a virginal garden , half an acre of island that consisted of nothing more luxurious or exotic than brick rubble , tilled chalk and grass seed . |
| 17 | He went on like that until the chief officer nodded him through with a glazed look in his eyes . |
| 18 | He caught a glimpse of the fair hair and saw that she was talking to someone he recognised as the drummer from the band ; the whole group was there , giving an impromptu concert on tin whistles to the tired hikers sleeping on their rucksacks undaunted by the howl and shriek of the space-invader machines on the other side , a cacophony of mechanical rage that deafened him together with the thin notes of a rebel song . |
| 19 | And there were some flats were n't there with the with Tommy on the w er Philip , that 's right , Tommy on one day and he , that pub , he picked a bloke up and threw him straight through the bloody pub window . |
| 20 | A tube burst and the blow back threw him back against the tender end . |
| 21 | Then Charley Bates and the Dodger took away Oliver 's expensive new suit , gave him some old clothes , and locked him up in a dark room . |
| 22 | Vologsky punched out a sequence on the computer panel , which automatically locked him in to the local frequency . |
| 23 | He was approached by the Huddersfield directors early in 1921 and the offer spurred him on to a determined effort to prove his innocence in the Leeds City affair . |
| 24 | Corbett nodded and opened his mouth to speak but Bruce brushed him aside with a peremptory wave of his hand . |
| 25 | His honest , square-jawed and faintly familiar face served him well in the real estate business . |
| 26 | Pound , following a polemical strategy which served him well in the short run ( but which later back-fired ) deliberately provoked the academic classicists of his day ; and his use of his sources , classical and other , was always both hasty and high-handed . |
| 27 | I pressed the door shut , and pressed him back into the lighted room at the rear of the store . |
| 28 | In 1090 the lord of Montpellier exploited it even more successfully when he rose against his lord , the bishop of Maguelonne ; worried by William 's defection , the bishop bribed him back into the episcopal mouvance by extending his fief . |
| 29 | Unlike the previous soft glow , this new light had a sharpness about it , and it beckoned him upward like the guiding beam of a lighthouse in a dark stormy sea . |
| 30 | He heaved his snorting , raging mount out of the press of dismounted men , swung him round in a trampling circle to clear ground about him , and drew off to realign his vision and find a just opponent . |