Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | She goes on to accuse him and the others of , as it were , defining themselves into respectability : ‘ They are not prepared to count as concept or understanding anything which does not involve speech . ’ |
| 2 | A report says he made a series of errors , but goes on to praise him for rescuing his pilot and passengers when the helicopter threatened to catch fire . |
| 3 | She heard the shaken sigh that was torn from him as he brought her body up against the length of his , and the urge to go on fighting him faded as she grasped at fresh knowledge , accepting the fact that this was entirely mutual . |
| 4 | Val was more indignant than Roland about this event , and her indignation upset him as much as his own failure , for he liked Fergus and wanted to be able to go on liking him . |
| 5 | She wanted to say no , to go on treating him and everything that surrounded him with the same nonchalant air she 'd managed thus far . |
| 6 | No , I 'm afraid we 've got to go on carrying him . |
| 7 | William is humiliated not because he is defeated ( he had half expected this ) but because of the shepherd boy 's refusal to go on hitting him . |
| 8 | ‘ Another thing you 've forgotten , ’ Maria supplied waspishly , agitatedly conscious that she had to go on resisting him . |
| 9 | K. R. I saw a fellow having an epileptic fit and I got down to hold him while he kicked out . |
| 10 | Johnson arrived in Winnipeg for the Canadian championships , but his advisers notified organisers late on Friday that a week-old hamstring injury had not healed sufficiently to enable him to race in Saturday 's 60 metres . |
| 11 | But she was too late : Trevor was already paddling in the treacle , and Maudie swooped down to pick him up . |
| 12 | ‘ Is there anyone you know who thought Mills was a traitor and cared enough to see him dead ? ’ |
| 13 | The years of his longest sentence , from 1979 to 1983 ( incurred for setting up , in admiring imitation of the Polish KOR , a Czech Committee to Defend the Unjustly Prosecuted ) were punctuated by other , sometimes painfully absurd episodes : for example the day the Interior Ministry 's men relented sufficiently to allow him to attend his father 's funeral , and then inadvertently let him be surrounded by a tight scrum of friends who brought him up to date with all the latest political news . |
| 14 | And Dick came galloping down to greet him — it was quite something . |
| 15 | You know you should 've perhaps questioned him , you know what 's his minimum what , you know , what could he how , how important is his future . |
| 16 | One has rarely heard him sing with more authority , and never seen him so communicative , happy and funny . |
| 17 | Micky Stewart has since kept him involved in international get togethers and is clearly an admirer . |
| 18 | Escobar announced last month that he was declaring war on the state and the government has since blamed him for a series of bomb blasts in Bogota and other cities which have killed more than 40 people . |
| 19 | But the dynamic left-back has since proved him wrong by moving into the England reckoning with his performances for Kevin Keegan 's side . |
| 20 | But Mr Loughran 's misfortunes have not finished there his fiancee has since left him . |
| 21 | A nurse has secretly slipped him some strips of paper in his hands . |
| 22 | Parliament has expressly given him power to intervene when the local authority is acting unreasonably . |
| 23 | And , although he had recently been known to talk to an invisible giant white rabbit and peek at his neighbours through binoculars , neither of these traits were deemed enough to blacken him in the eyes of the electors . |
| 24 | But they were going for a walk , they had come in to make him go with them , and they wanted me to go too . |
| 25 | While Mr Siddle was at the works stores Mr Eaton was seen by crane Driver Alfred Walker , of Holmes Close , Thornaby , lying underneath the pipe using burning equipment when the pipe moved down trapping him . |
| 26 | The proposal of the Leader of the Opposition to spend the money that is now spent on British farmers on farmers in southern Europe is something about which every farmer should know — unless the Opposition spokesman will advise him differently and tell the House when he has so advised him . |
| 27 | In the glow of this new power , erotic love and spiritual love are somehow conflated ( in a way that seems finally to overcome for Prince the apparent mutual antagonism between sensuality and righteousness that has hitherto perplexed him ) . |
| 28 | I 'm just trying to keep his feet on the ground and try to make up the yardage , but Lee hits out of the bunker and thinks it has all left him . |
| 29 | He is well liked and sticks to his brief come what may — a tactic that has rightly earned him the nickname of the ’ Bardic steamroller ’ . |
| 30 | But if Sutherland sounds distant and indifferent to his father — ’ We see each other very rarely ’ he insists — one has only to ask him to list his favourite Donald Sutherland movies to see a proud and admiring son . |