Example sentences of "[v-ing] him [adv] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The criminal replies , ‘ Have a look , mate ! ’ as he throws the heavy bag straight at the bobby , knocking him backwards on to the pavement . |
| 2 | Some page from a knightly family , most likely , thought Harry , eyeing him distantly out of the obscuring mist of his own preoccupations . |
| 3 | You see I 've been entrusted with the task of getting him safely back to the Reich and I 've little more than three weeks to do it in . ’ |
| 4 | Bones obliged him in everything he asked , even shaking him tenderly back into the saddle when he flew up round his ears or slipped tailwards . |
| 5 | Then , without warning , his legs were grabbed from behind , throwing him forward on to the pile of bodies . |
| 6 | He picked up a bunch of bananas and threw them at his son-in-law , hitting him so hard in the chest that Changez toppled off his stool and badly bruised his good arm . |
| 7 | After missing him so desperately over the last six weeks it was more than she had ever dreamed of to find herself suddenly close to him again , and maybe by the time they reached their destination he would have given her some clue about the way he wanted things to be . |