Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] him [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newman asked him point-blank . |
| 2 | But his ruthlessness made him as much a figure of fun as a minister of fear , and whatever his future holds , Souness will always be pursued by a sense of resentment in Scotland . |
| 3 | This split made him simultaneously very alert and extremely absent-minded , now on the ball , now off in a world of his own . |
| 4 | The Prince regarded him thoughtfully . |
| 5 | His failure before the English courts led him directly to Strasburg where he successfully claimed that his rights guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights had been violated . |
| 6 | It took my daughter and me over an hour to drive him home , the ungrateful creature ! |
| 7 | Kolchinsky lowered him carefully to the floor then flicked on the intercom switch on the desk . |
| 8 | Along with a man called Renwick Dennison , they trailed Dale for days , but the opportunity to kill him never arose , said Mr Langdale . |
| 9 | Whilst he was laid up for six weeks in Middlesex Hospital , Minton visited him regularly and kept his family in Northumberland informed as to his progress . |
| 10 | The force of the blow caught him squarely and sent him sprawling , gasping for breath , temporarily blinded , rolling in the dust . |
| 11 | That is , I shall argue that the power/knowledge assumptions which form the very basis of Bourdieu 's conceptual framework place him much closer to Foucault and the postmodernist end of the theoretical spectrum . |
| 12 | After the affair Beatrice described him sourly : ‘ A complex character . |
| 13 | Edouard regarded him coolly . |
| 14 | He looked very unlike his usual tidy self , his collarless shirt changed him completely , so did the ruffling lather on his chin . |
| 15 | Maria regarded him curiously , unexpectedly chilled by the cynicism . |
| 16 | ‘ It shall be in English , ’ the prince promised him drily . |
| 17 | Springbok ban cost him about 50 caps but at 34 still quick and dangerous . |
| 18 | Jed drove north to begin with , his wrist a rectangle of heat and all that numbness just behind his eyes , but after two days the roads drew him inland , over high mountains , and soon he was heading due west . |
| 19 | He stood out among them not only because he had a surer command of his people at home , but also because Cuba is where it is , so the Russians helped him much more than the rest . |
| 20 | How could Lisa know him so well , when she herself had been so naïvely blind ? |
| 21 | Dierdriu regarded him thoughtfully . |
| 22 | Some , like Robert Fishlock of Thistleton , were taxed on wages ; perhaps he was somebody 's chief servant , and in any case the muster described him more realistically as a labourer and valued his goods at 30s . |
| 23 | ‘ It does n't matter any more , Luke , ’ Maria stopped him gently . |
| 24 | One of those accused told me that a proper legal defence cost him only £140.00 with legal aid , which he got back because they won . |
| 25 | The taxi driver helped him upstairs ; he 'd been tipped most generously . |
| 26 | Kirov regarded him sadly . |
| 27 | The snake caught him again savagely round the legs with its jaws , but he managed to tear himself away and keep running until he finally passed out from shock and blood-loss . |
| 28 | The result is a sympathetic and charmingly balanced profile of this charismatic driver whose uninhibited spirit at the wheel made him so compelling to watch . |
| 29 | 3 The attacker 's body weight drives him head-on into a claw strike that covers the whole area of the face . |
| 30 | John George had long ceased to play the father to John : not only did he put his son first at all times , but his alcoholism made him extremely difficult to deal with . |