Example sentences of "and [vb past] [prep] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And of course , Bullitt had directly observed the man and interacted with him during the critical time at , at the Versailles conference . |
| 2 | Except on that one occasion when she lost her temper and shouted at him like a fishwife in front of her husband . |
| 3 | Then she jumped up from the bed before he could grab her again and darted past him to the window . |
| 4 | As relief spread to pure pleasure she waved and came towards him across the yard like a young girl . |
| 5 | She gave the king 's son honey to eat , and played to him on a golden zither , whose strings she brushed with a silver feather . |
| 6 | Beside myself with rage , I crouched , shook my fist under his nose and yelled at him from a few inches ' range . |
| 7 | She flashed the note around , proudly though covertly , and looked for him at the bus stop , but she could not look for him without some misgiving . |
| 8 | Adam wondered if Abigail sometimes woke up and looked for him in the dark , in the empty room , and fretted for a while before she began to cry . |
| 9 | Kragan knelt down in front of Adam and looked at him as a butcher would appraise a cut of meat . |
| 10 | Jenna turned and looked at him in a startled manner . |
| 11 | I lay still and looked at him in the dusk and began to laugh , and whispered to her , ‘ It 's all right , it 's a statue of St Joseph ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You caught a breath or two and looked at him in the end , ’ said Jo-Ann . |
| 13 | They stopped and looked at him from a little distance . |
| 14 | Old Den turned the horse and looked about him in the yard . |
| 15 | He braced his hand on the staircase rail at his left and looked around him into the shadows . |
| 16 | A couple of years earlier , when I was having a bad patch and went to him for a reassuring chat , he had told me not to worry about it . |
| 17 | Then she lit him up the stairs , and went before him into the panelled solar , where Rhodri rose from a tall chair by the fire to receive him . |
| 18 | , but Benguiat took it as like a threat to and went after him in the lobby of hall and they had to be prised apart . |
| 19 | A small boy of about six came up to Jackson and stared at him from a distance of two feet before pulling a face and running away . |
| 20 | They scratched and squeaked and ran about , and stared at him from the holes in the walls . |
| 21 | ‘ It suited me not to deny it last night , ’ Ruth blurted and stared beyond him to a young palm swaying gently in the breeze . |
| 22 | We stood and stared after him for a few seconds , then one of the mortar team behind me remarked . |
| 23 | She realized this openly and laughed at him in the sun , saying that the Afghans could n't manage it either , and her blatant flirtatiousness fuelled him to perform one of his music-hall leaps over the back of the car into the bucket seat . |
| 24 | She laid down her cup and leaned towards him across the table . |
| 25 | The children stood on the top step and spoke to him over the half-door . |
| 26 | And do n't forget , Joe was with me , and you know how careful he is. lee was at the party and one of the maids told me that she took him out of the party and spoke to him for a few minutes . |
| 27 | And Anwar was very patient with Changez , and spoke to him like a four-year-old , which was the right thing to do . |
| 28 | His employer gave him a glowing reference and spoke about him to a friend by the name of Sir Algernon Clark , a fellow businessman who was having problems with insurance brokers over the size of the premium for insuring his wharf and its most valuable contents . |
| 29 | But Karajan 's will was superhuman where music is concerned and he always had in his hand a trump card : a capacity for inner detachment that left him free of bitterness or rancour for all that has been written and said about him over the years . |
| 30 | I sat him up , and said to him in a new voice that he was not to try and move without me . |