Example sentences of "[prep] him [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We wondered how Pop was getting on in Mayrnyo without us , but dear Madriya and his wife had stayed to look after him and the soldiers . |
| 2 | It must always have been a real hope on Wilfrid 's part that a king of Northumbria from another branch of the royal family or from a noble line claiming royal descent would be more favourably disposed towards him than the descendants of Oswiu . |
| 3 | He pulled again , and Folly raised her hips , arching wantonly towards him as the dress slipped past her hips . |
| 4 | John Russell pulled the blanket roll towards him as the man sat down , propping his feet on his canvas bag . |
| 5 | Acorn started and turned towards him and the beetle scurried away over the pebbles as Pipkin moved and woke . |
| 6 | Pip 's relationship with Estella at the beginning is weak because of her attitude towards him and the reason why . |
| 7 | Irish Tom 's voice boomed with mirth and mockery below him as the airborne child flailed the air with his arms and legs . |
| 8 | He did not feel the movement below him as the tombstone , old and crumbling , began to settle in the ever — soft earth , failed to sense the gentle , swaying motion as it broke away from its anchorage on the wall . |
| 9 | More horror of him than the shit of the pit . |
| 10 | He was forty-seven , too old for military service yet young enough to feel that something more was required of him than the life he had hitherto led . |
| 11 | Jack Butler was almost ugly when he was angry ; it was a side of him that the many thousands of women who watched racing only to catch a glimpse of him never saw . |
| 12 | Piggy 's glasses became the only part of him that the boys were glad to have — as they lit the fire . |
| 13 | Peter Kaye , a pensioner of Beechtree Road , Wavertree , has met every poll tax payment demanded of him since the tax was introduced , keeping a careful note of the cheques he issued . |
| 14 | Even then he had not liked to look into it too much but had kept his eyes on the ground or straight ahead of him because the wood was the kind of place you saw in story-book illustrations or even in your dreams and out of which things were liable to come creeping . |
| 15 | Hitler 's speech on 20 July after the attempt on his life was turned into a criticism of him and the regime . |
| 16 | He was swigging hot chocolate , his tatty carrier bag on one side of him and the tin of biscuits on the other . |
| 17 | We are proud to have been supporters of him and the team . |
| 18 | Instinct took control of him and the noise of the men behind him died to a whisper . |
| 19 | Sometimes in the middle of a celebration , Christmas or Easter , she would think of him and the knowledge of how he had been murdered would cast a shadow over everything . |
| 20 | He took care of him and the Greek verb means that he literally took total charge of his case , in other words he probably stayed up all night nursing him , and so he made the inn into temporarily a nursing home and we 're back into another area of the Board 's concerns . |
| 21 | After it 's over we cut to another scene and there 's somebody who might be the little guy again and he 's still strapped to a chair but this time it 's a tall hospital chair with wheels and a little fold-away table in front of him and the straps holding his torso would be easy to undo but his hands are limp . |
| 22 | It had taken a long while , Harry thought as he glanced fondly at Cora-Beth , before he had got over Madeleine 's rejection of him and the shock of her marriage to Dunbar . |
| 23 | Somebody used to sit on the carpet at one end of the room with a walking stick and a chalk mark in front of him and the contestants used to have to come up to him and try to rub the marking out and he used to rap the hands with his walking stick . |
| 24 | With a hiss a door irised open up ahead of him and the car slipped through , coming out into a great sunken pit , in the centre of which stood the squatly rounded shape of the interplanetary craft . |
| 25 | They stayed like that for a long time , sometimes moving , sometimes still , the hardness of him and the warmth and softness of her blended into one . |
| 26 | For Owen the resolution of the conflicting pressures and the demands made of him and the unit staff takes place through an education philosophy that reconciles the interests of the child , the school and the LEA . |
| 27 | And the scent of him and the taste of him were making her giddy . |
| 28 | But the noise of him and the flapping was good enough sign too . |
| 29 | It was also a terribly brave putt for Gordon to hole under all that pressure and I was proud of him and the rest of the team that afternoon . |
| 30 | But no ball of fire climbed into the sky ahead of him and the familiar landmarks were still there as he passed the City of London Museum and slipped past St. Botolph-without-Aldersgate into Little Britain . |