Example sentences of "him [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeltsin had said at a press conference after the Alma Ata meeting that " we do not want to follow the tradition which has taken shape since 1917 of burying each [ former ] head and leader of the state and subsequently reburying him or regarding him as a criminal " . |
| 2 | Zacchaeus became reconciled to God because Jesus , instead of ignoring him or treating him like an outcast , had deliberately gone out of his way to meet and befriend him . |
| 3 | The other gentleman to whom I referred , Mr. Williams , was deported some little while ago , it being cheaper to deport him than prosecute him for the gross fraud that he has perpetrated against the United Kingdom . |
| 4 | Topknot spread his arms above him and muttered something at the sky . |
| 5 | The men surged round him and jostled themselves to a standstill . |
| 6 | A pack leader saw the police in hot pursuit , called six Sturmabteilungen to him and led them into the stadium . |
| 7 | He had brought his telescope ashore with him and mounted it in the little dormer window high up under the eaves of the steep-pitched east-facing gable of his house . |
| 8 | I pulled the coat off him and flung it onto the hawthorn bushes where it rested upside down , spilling the contents of the torn pockets . |
| 9 | Albert Tailors , in the shape of old Mr Albert himself , took one look at him and channelled him to the Teens Room , which was festooned with guitars and pictures of pop singers . |
| 10 | Even as he hacked his way free more tentacles looped around him and dragged him into the filth . |
| 11 | Of course , at last a train got him and killed him in a horrible way . |
| 12 | Two men attacked him and forced him from the bike . |
| 13 | ‘ The Scots do n't look very … amusable , ’ drawled Georgie , picking a bit of 1,000-year-old stone off the wall behind him and aiming it at a tent-peg . |
| 14 | The gang pounced on him and knocked him to the ground — but he curled up into a ball to save himself as punches and kicks rained down . |
| 15 | They tried to grab the cash from him and knocked him to the ground . |
| 16 | The vicar says that a young Larusa , Masai after all , has stabbed him and beaten him with a stick and the whole town is talking about it . |
| 17 | Harry Carpenter came up to interview him and asked him about the last putt . |
| 18 | Dad was told how naughty James had been and then shouted at him and sent him to the bedroom . |
| 19 | Juliet hugged him and sent him into the garden . |
| 20 | ‘ He was yelling out in terror and must have run 50 yards before two blokes caught him and rolled him about the pavement to put the flames out . ’ |
| 21 | It had been arranged that a trustworthy man would come then to collect him and take him to a safe house . |
| 22 | If he woke up , I 'd feed him and take him around the block until he dropped off again . ’ |
| 23 | On another occasion his reference to the duty of the Old Testament prophets to denounce God 's judgements to the King and Court was reported to James II , who sent for him and reproached him for the controversial bitterness with which he had spoken . |
| 24 | Rather it will be a case of the researcher finding a means of recording and sorting the mass of detail which continuously bombards him and presents him with the lateral possibilities which make the discipline potentially dangerous . |
| 25 | He took out the photograph which he always carried with him and compared it to the woman he had just seen . |
| 26 | The robot put Buff to sleep , then put the spacesuit on him and carried him to the spaceship . |
| 27 | But in the same split second something like an iron band clamped round his waist , squeezing the breath from him and bringing him to a dead stop . |
| 28 | A few of his fellow citizens would wait until the train was about to depart , nobble him and throw him on the train , slip the guards a few dollars and wave goodbye . |
| 29 | Never before had she argued so passionately with a man , hating him and wanting him with an intensity that frightened her . |
| 30 | He gave support to William Wallace in his fight for Scottish independence but deserted him and aligned himself with the English King Edward I who was trying to dominate Scotland . |