Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 31 | He remembered how she had reluctantly sat down to play him and a couple of other men at poker a few years before . |
| 32 | In 1940 , Thomson was considered as one of the portraitists , but his deafness was considered enough to disqualify him , and the post went to Eric Kennington who however resigned in 1942 over criticism of the ‘ violence ’ of his portraits , and now without an explanation for the change of heart over his deafness Thomson was appointed to succeed him . |
| 33 | Mansell saw that the young professional was lacking in belief and has constantly told him : ‘ Go out and win . ’ |
| 34 | People would gang together to destroy him . |
| 35 | But there was no time to give this disturbing idea attention ; Tealtaoich was nearly at the Trees and the Trees were grouped together watching him and waiting for him in complete silence and it was important not to miss a single instant of any of it . |
| 36 | ‘ Well then , you had better have one , ’ said Diana , and bent down to kiss him on the cheek . |
| 37 | She gazed at little Ivan , bent down to kiss him . |
| 38 | As officers moved in to arrest him he waved a knife and snarled : ‘ Come on then , do you want some of this ? ’ |
| 39 | Police moved in to arrest him , stones were thrown and police then reportedly opened fire . |
| 40 | It is this element of Charlie that has perhaps made him popular with other ( albeit less twisted ) musicians . |
| 41 | Then , as if something amusing has suddenly hit him , he smiles . |
| 42 | After half an hour or so , spent scratching mosquito bites , I head over to see him . |
| 43 | Kopyion , appearing not to notice him , continued collecting messages , reading through them quickly and then shredding them . |
| 44 | And this is God 's purpose , he is given the Holy Spirit and he has not withdrawn him . |
| 45 | She has not seen him since half past six , when they met in the kitchen over a salami sandwich . |
| 46 | What Odd-Knut has not told him is that the water under the ice is pressurized , and it wells up out of the hole . |
| 47 | A warning should be sounded that a candidate whose work experience has not equipped him or her to handle the case study paper is unlikely to pass it on the strength of a little practice and revision course . |
| 48 | On his return to Scotland , Souness chose to live in Edinburgh , a decision that has not endeared him to some of the more primitive members of the Glasgow community . |
| 49 | Although he is happy with his lifestyle and a wages and bonuses package which earns him £30,000 a week , Walker 's evasive attitude and reluctance to project himself through the media has not endeared him to the locals . |
| 50 | Going on as substitute has not helped him . |
| 51 | However , the severity of her symptoms and the embarrassing situation in which she had collapsed soon led him to take her symptoms seriously . |
| 52 | He is indeed , as John Taylor has aptly called him , ‘ the go-between God ’ , for he both takes the things of God and makes them real to us on the one hand , and takes our faint longings and prayers and brings them to the Father on the other . |
| 53 | Gloria pretended not to notice him . |
| 54 | Léonie and Thérèse pretended not to notice him . |
| 55 | Even then Mr Pumblechook said , ‘ And fourteen ? ’ but I pretended not to hear him . |
| 56 | Zoe pretended not to hear him . |
| 57 | Ambulancemen tried desperately to revive him , but he was dead on arrival at hospital . |
| 58 | Karen , four months pregnant with their first child , tried desperately to revive him , but he died six hours later in hospital . |
| 59 | She flushed and tried not to let him rile her . |
| 60 | He swung his leg over the saddle , rocked the bike off its stand and balanced it with his legs while she put on the helmet , tugged on the huge gloves and tried not to let him know she was panicking . |