Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Holly saw his face as he passed behind him on the perimeter path , a face that was scraped with despair . |
| 2 | In London he sat beside Johnson in their various venues ; now he rode beside him in the post-chaise taking them up through eastern Scotland ; next he would canter along beside him to the Western Isles . |
| 3 | He gazed around him at the late afternoon sky . |
| 4 | Just as he disagreed with him about the essential or principal properties of body , Locke disagreed with Descartes about the mind . |
| 5 | It was full of pieces of paper , which he dropped behind him for the other boys to follow . |
| 6 | But the others evidently had not , or Rufus had not , walking jauntily and with swinging stride across the tarmac , his stethoscope bobbing up and down , letting himself into the main hospital block , Shiva later saw , by a door marked ‘ Private ’ , which he slammed behind him with a fine disregard for the notices exhorting all to silence . |
| 7 | He turned behind him to a metal trolley where neat regiments of jars and bottles waited breathlessly under sealing plastic . |
| 8 | Noah 's knowledge of the law applicable to gipsies surprised Arnold Peck , but now he glanced about him at the listening gipsies . |
| 9 | He worked with him for a while , making implements . |
| 10 | Eliot produced a single page of notes from his pocket which he placed before him on the small table and brooded over for a while ; but when he started , he managed to pack in , during 45 minutes or so , a great deal of sound sense on the subject of drama and especially on the relation of drama to religion . |
| 11 | Nodding gently to himself , he reached beside him for the blanket . |
| 12 | Jenkins was fortunate that he brought with him to the Home Office an intuitive understanding that it is how issues and incidents are handled , more than the policies which are decided upon , that can make or break a Home Secretary 's reputation . |
| 13 | He was the same age as old Jack Ryan and well remembered the smell of the pigs he brought with him into the pub of an evening . |
| 14 | He brought with him into the Treasury few old prejudices beyond the self-confidence of his conviction that whatever he believed in at a particular time was right . |
| 15 | He will remain on the board of Saatchi as a non-executive director and will be replaced as chief executive by Charles Scott , who he brought with him into the company as finance director in January 1990 . |
| 16 | When he had had his lunch , which he brought with him in the suitcase , a packet of salami sandwiches , a croissant with jam in it and a fruit-and-nut bar , he set off for West End Lane , to the Electricity Board and the Gas Board , to make inquiries about a chimney sweep , and put an advertisement for tenants in a newsagent 's window . |
| 17 | The accused claimed that he had produced the gun to try to hold Robert at bay and then shot him when he advanced on him with a hunting knife . |
| 18 | All this , ’ he looked about him at the books and paintings and machines , ‘ it speaks of a love of knowledge . ’ |
| 19 | Li Shai Tung let the remote drift slowly towards the starship and sat back , one hand smoothing through his long beard while he looked about him at the faces of his fellow T'ang . |
| 20 | He looked about him at the decoration of the study . |
| 21 | Moran 's high-strung nervousness , which was usually concealed by slow , deliberate movements , was all on show as he looked about him like an animal in unknown territory and tore open the envelope . |
| 22 | He looked around him at the other producers and researchers . |
| 23 | Only now he was smiling as he looked around him at the chaos . |
| 24 | ‘ And then I went to Los Angeles , and I spent Thanksgiving on Malibu Beach , and there was a picture window — he stared around him at the shoebox room and rejected it — ‘ let's not exaggerate , but it would stretch from here to the lift . |
| 25 | Jock Thompson , the head of Meikles Trust in Bulawayo , told us of a talk he had with him on the guidance of God . |
| 26 | He could fly all day long and all night long if he wanted , but I wanted him to get 100 hours at night and I felt that despite his enthusiasm I would like to he shot of him for a period . |