Example sentences of "[vb past] him [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man ducked , weaving to his left so that Trent 's fist caught him high on the right cheek . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She fixed him suddenly with a beady stare from beneath the crêpy lids . |
| 4 | As I understood , he was asleep for much of the time , and indeed , I found him so on the few occasions I had a spare moment to ascend to that little attic room . |
| 5 | I beat him once in the 1988 Olympics and I know I can beat him again . ’ |
| 6 | But Fidway 's Cheltenham supporters can also claim a little bad luck — the winner Royal Gait bumped him just after the final flight . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | So to impress him I told him briefly of the four stages of polio — first the porodomal , second the muscle pain , then the period of muscle destruction which usually took no longer than fourteen days , and finally the period of repair . |
| 9 | Their patient was a man in his late thirties , and Kathleen recognised him immediately with a sinking heart . |
| 10 | His aunt recognised him immediately as the well-known local ‘ drug squad ’ detective . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Impulses of attraction towards beautiful forms or faces troubled him frequently for the next two years at Oxford . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Corbett nodded and opened his mouth to speak but Bruce brushed him aside with a peremptory wave of his hand . |
| 16 | His honest , square-jawed and faintly familiar face served him well in the real estate business . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They received him readily , and haled him away across the moist grass just touched in the hollows with rime . |
| 20 | When in the winter of 838 – 9 Louis the German rebelled openly , the emperor crushed him completely in a swift campaign , and sent him back to Bavaria . |
| 21 | MacDiarmid waved him forward with a commanding sweep of his arm and he came and sat at the end of the table . |
| 22 | I hit him again in the same place , a little harder . |
| 23 | I watched him carefully in the next few days . |
| 24 | I 'm saying that someone , having knocked Mr Hambro cold , dragged him across the path to the water , and shoved him firmly into the soft mud with his face under water , to die . ’ |
| 25 | But a hand was over his lips before he could utter a sound , and an arm took him round shoulders and breast from behind , and pinned him helplessly against a broad chest . |
| 26 | She led him straight into an old-fashioned kitchen where a coal range gave out a dull red glow . |
| 27 | She led him upstairs to a homely-looking sitting-room , and opened the drinks cupboard . |
| 28 | Then , not even glancing at the room beyond , or at a woman who had come out on to the stairs , she led him away to a small room of perfect luxury at the back of the house , which was clearly her own . |
| 29 | Michael took the case from him and led him away to the hired car . |
| 30 | But a bridge ( ‘ Residents Only ’ ) led him across to the main channel of the Cherwell , where the water was still flowing fairly swiftly after the week 's earlier rains , and where pieces of debris were intermittently knocking into the sides of the banks , and then turning and twisting , first one way then the other , like dodgem cars at the fun-fair . |