Example sentences of "him [conj] he [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She put her arms round him where he stood on the threshold of her room . |
| 2 | Only the mouth told him that he looked on the face of his friend . |
| 3 | It was recorded of him that he sang with the monks in the divine offices ; when taunted by the king for his clerkly tastes , he responded that an illiterate king was a crowned ass ( a cliché much favoured in twelfth-century Angevin circles , for it sprang from a sense of family superiority — the counts of Anjou were , by any standards , learned men ) . |
| 4 | After several months of stalling , he believed Hashemi had tricked him and he went to the United States to retrieve his money — and save his face with his ‘ superiors ’ in the PPP . |
| 5 | But when he tried to stand a cry of pain escaped him and he reached for the wall of the stables for support . |
| 6 | A snow-covered hedge loomed up ahead of him and he made for the shelter of it . |
| 7 | Not given to self-pity , he heaved the problem out of his mind and tried to look forward to the challenges of tomorrow , but weariness overtook him and he retired to the shed and his mothy sleeping bag . |
| 8 | However , King was determined to catch him and he moved into the lead for the next two laps before Joey hit back and with a speed of 110.34mph regained the advantage . |
| 9 | A convulsion shook him and he scrabbled at the ground , covering himself in a mask of wet earth and blood . |
| 10 | His mount threw him and he stayed on the beach , witnesses swear to that . |
| 11 | How can I make him see his colleagues will look down on him if he says in the same old rut ? |
| 12 | He asked him if he belonged to the loyalist section of the population and he replied that he did . |
| 13 | Annette spent the intervening time with her son who had been made as comfortable as possible and she told him that she would stay with him until he went for the operation and would then go home but would return first thing in the morning . |
| 14 | She rubbed him until he ejaculated into the bathwater . |
| 15 | Emmie tried to get hold of him but he fought like the baby wild cat her mother had once been given to tame . |
| 16 | He walks off and I watch him till he disappears round the corner . |
| 17 | I stood beside him while he cursed at the keys and thumped the side window . |
| 18 | He was relaxed , a contrast to the tension which had gripped him while he spoke of the MacQuillan calumny . |
| 19 | The vicar managed to catch him before he fell to the floor , and he was removed to his home , where he died on the Friday morning , 8 September . |
| 20 | In newsomes situation I would have maybe challenged him before he got to the box and maybe given a foul away in the process . |
| 21 | ‘ You think Newley checked back with him before he went to the cottage ? ’ |
| 22 | No , wait a minute , I 've a better idea ; she might be able to get Paul to bring them if she can catch him before he leaves for the airport . ’ |
| 23 | This type of locomotive was repeated by him after he transferred to the Caledonian Railway in 1882 and was further developed by his successors on that railway for the next thirty years . |
| 24 | Tug 's dad is out to get him after he tipped off the police about his shady escapades . |
| 25 | That afternoon ( it was all on a Sunday ) he saw Chamberlain , and having directly asked him whether he agreed with the others and having received an affirmative answer , told him to call a meeting of the Shadow Cabinet for the following day at which he would say goodbye . |
| 26 | They follow him as he goes through the sky and when he leaves the sky they look for him all night . |
| 27 | An infra-red scanner winks its inflamed eye at him as he goes into the lounge in search of reading matter . |
| 28 | The rain continued to beat down upon him as he ran across the dark and sodden park just before midnight . |
| 29 | Alarm rose in response to the dark , angry glitter her defiant claim brought to his eyes , and as he began to move towards her , Maria also moved , whirling past him as he came round the desk . |
| 30 | There was something comfortingly familiar in this maddening ruin , this mythagoscape , generated by a burned airman many years in the past , created by him as he journeyed to the innermost and most ancient place of all . |