Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , Corbett realised that if de Craon knew he was asking questions it was only a matter of time before the Council of Guardians intervened and either put a stop to his activities or expelled him from the country . |
| 2 | He would ride the boy on his shoulders or shove him roughly aside according to his mood . |
| 3 | At least now he 's surrounded by people who encourage and inspire him , who kick his arse , help him write songs and drag him out of the isolated , uncreative lethargy he easily slips into . |
| 4 | He has lived in this pleasant suburb 45 years , entirely unaware that Kirk , Keef , Claptout and all of Led Zeppelin had been looking for him to apologise for stealing his songs and to pay him much-needed royalties . |
| 5 | Sit on our bloody backsides and wish him luck ? ’ |
| 6 | Piquet 's 200 mph crash nearly took off his legs and left him with a limp for life . |
| 7 | There 's one thing , best shot 's he played in that innings down at Hove and it was a short boundary , it was a good deal shorter , in fact this one we have here at Lord 's in this match , is a six over cover off good old Lester Piggott who was steaming downhill there at Hove all arms and legs and eased him over for six . |
| 8 | She pulled up her skirt , opened her legs and straddled him . |
| 9 | Then suddenly he thrust his head between his owner 's legs and hoisted him into the trough with a resounding splash ! |
| 10 | Simultaneously , she reached between his legs and jerked him off . |
| 11 | Then she drew him on to the covers and pushed him gently back . |
| 12 | His story was that he had collapsed with exhaustion and thirst when a passing American schooner had seen his distress signals and taken him aboard . |
| 13 | They put the stranger down on the outskirts and left him standing in the middle of the road , his face in shadow under his cap and just a glimmer of those white , pebbly eyes . |
| 14 | ‘ Funny , ’ says Hulk Hogan , just before Secret Shine turn up in their bloodied butcher 's aprons and dismember him with their thumbs so they can use his torso to stir some soup made from doctors , ‘ I thought all the bands on Sarah were useless , overly well-spoken , terminally passive rock inadequates wallowing in their own love of wimping insipidness . ’ |
| 15 | In these heady days , Gould 's greed surpassed even his own bounds and made him capable of an ungentlemanly lack of sportsmanship . |
| 16 | When he let her go she stared up at him with anguish in her eyes and heard him swear roughly , viciously . |
| 17 | His hair , which he had cut himself in one of the gales of thrift that blew up in him every few weeks , kept getting into his eyes and caused him to see a charming rainbow when he stood under a street lamp to look up at Sam 's room — something he had done too often . |
| 18 | She threw her head back , shaking the limp hair out of her eyes and challenged him : ‘ Well , would you have turned it down ? ’ |
| 19 | She opened her eyes and cursed him for disturbing her silent thoughts . |
| 20 | Edgar put out the ageing Donald 's eyes and consigned him to prison . |
| 21 | She opened her eyes and saw him . |
| 22 | Seeing the first signs of salt water he was landed on by lots of flies which got into his eyes and irritated him more than the dust . |
| 23 | She closed her eyes and told him he was wonderful . |
| 24 | ‘ They do like this , ’ and he pulls his son 's woollen hat over his eyes and frisks him . |
| 25 | His mouth met hers and her shocked little gasp turned to a moan of hunger as she closed her eyes and kissed him at last , at last , and the brandy glass fell from her hands , shattering at their feet as her arms went around his neck , her mouth opening hungrily beneath his , her hands in his black hair , her body pressing against his as they clung together with intolerable necessity , unaware of the fragments of glass they trampled as Damian pressed her tighter , tighter until there was not an inch between their bodies . |
| 26 | In any case , how could she look into his eyes and convince him she would n't touch him with a ten-foot pole when every time he came within a few feet of her she quivered inside , remembering the fierce and all too brief pressure of his mouth on hers ? |
| 27 | This man 's joy at his team 's win greatly tempered his reaction at being jabbed in the chest by a vigorous old Irish American , but even he had to retaliate when Uncle Mick pulled his cap down over his eyes and shoved him back in his seat . |
| 28 | As Sister and Nurse Robins are swigging coffee with that drag Jones , I took him down the short cut through Eyes and shoved him into 15 . |
| 29 | The smoke was swirling around him , affecting his unprotected eyes and making him choke . |
| 30 | Anything but to raise her eyes and see him there where she ought to be . |