Example sentences of "him [coord] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Mansell , who has clashed verbally and physically with the triple champion said : ‘ My boss Frank Williams has told me he ca n't stop people like Ayrton phoning him or coming to his room . |
| 2 | Lucenzo dragged her bags with him and muttered under his breath about their bulk while Meredith stoically forced her exhausted body after his dark figure , her legs aching with the long climb . |
| 3 | When Robert Bruce , Earl of Carrick , took up the fight against the English and had himself crowned King of Scotland , Walter the Steward ( Walter Stewart ) supported him and fought by his side in 1314 at the Battle of Bannockburn . |
| 4 | The use of square brackets would normally mean that there is nothing in the hand of the king , not even a signature , but that the material is contemporary with him and belongs to his period . |
| 5 | When they heard this they cried out with one accord that they would do his bidding , and go out with him and fight under his banner , for certain they were that by his good fortune the Moors would be overthrown . |
| 6 | She took the photograph back from him and reached inside her apron pocket for her spectacles . |
| 7 | I offered to join him and continued after his death . ’ |
| 8 | She comes quickly up to him and smiles into his face . |
| 9 | She pushed on the door as if for support , turning towards him and settling into her seat again as if that had always been her intention . |
| 10 | As Hugh Paddick remembers : ‘ People then came up to him and asked for his autograph . |
| 11 | I decided to go with him and listen to his story . |
| 12 | Thiercelin held the polished curves of her shoulders away from him and looked into her face . |
| 13 | Sometimes when I was drunk and I 'd see him standing there looking all quiet and black and white and gorgeous , waiting for someone to take him home , I 'd get all teary and want to go up and slap him and shout in his face : How can you possibly understand what it means ! |
| 14 | When the Bohemians realised the mistake they had made in electing Ferdinand , they deposed him and elected in his place the Palatine Elector , Frederick V , a weak if romantic figure . |
| 15 | When she spoke to him and tugged at his arm he just moaned , his face grey and twisted with pain . |
| 16 | Meg came up to him and tugged at his arm . |
| 17 | Joseph rode slowly from the southern end of the camp , with five warriors walking beside him and leaning against his horse 's flanks . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've got to help with the meal , ’ Jenna said uneasily , moving rapidly away from him and searching for her comb . |
| 19 | The teachers managed to corner him and grappled with his clothing . |
| 20 | She now bent forward towards him and said under her breath , ‘ I 've been married five years , Charles , and I 've been five times pregnant . |
| 21 | Suddenly the old man grabbed him and whispered in his ear , ‘ Shh ! |
| 22 | A sense of power grew in him and spread through his body to his brain . |
| 23 | Félicie waited with him for news of the birth , and during the anxious time Modi asked her for advice , knowing that Jeanne was too preoccupied in looking after him and coping with her mother 's often unhelpful interference to look after a new baby alone . |
| 24 | Now Peter 's family can get on with looking after him and coping with his illness without worrying about losing their home . |
| 25 | David Steventon-Rogers , 25 , left Royston Smith , 43 , covered in blood after repeatedly slashing him and slicing through his ear , Bury St Edmunds Crown Court heard . |
| 26 | I had time only to think , he will find my own garb strange , before I walked dazedly up to him and sat by his side a yard away from him . |
| 27 | I went with him and sat in his music-room and listened to him play the D minor English suite . |
| 28 | The only time the mother spent with the boy was during meal-times and she had become so anxious about him eating sufficient quantities that she hovered over him and interfered with his eating pattern . |
| 29 | In the summer of 1177 , when his wife was pregnant , she left him and returned to her father 's court . |
| 30 | An inquest in Liverpool heard that unemployed printer Philip Banks , 31 , moved back in with his aunt , Hilda Barrett , after his girlfriend left him and returned to her husband . |