Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | K. R. I saw a fellow having an epileptic fit and I got down to hold him while he kicked out . |
| 2 | But she was too late : Trevor was already paddling in the treacle , and Maudie swooped down to pick him up . |
| 3 | ‘ Is there anyone you know who thought Mills was a traitor and cared enough to see him dead ? ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Well then , you had better have one , ’ said Diana , and bent down to kiss him on the cheek . |
| 7 | She gazed at little Ivan , bent down to kiss him . |
| 8 | As officers moved in to arrest him he waved a knife and snarled : ‘ Come on then , do you want some of this ? ’ |
| 9 | Police moved in to arrest him , stones were thrown and police then reportedly opened fire . |
| 10 | Gloria pretended not to notice him . |
| 11 | Léonie and Thérèse pretended not to notice him . |
| 12 | Even then Mr Pumblechook said , ‘ And fourteen ? ’ but I pretended not to hear him . |
| 13 | Zoe pretended not to hear him . |
| 14 | Ambulancemen tried desperately to revive him , but he was dead on arrival at hospital . |
| 15 | Karen , four months pregnant with their first child , tried desperately to revive him , but he died six hours later in hospital . |
| 16 | She flushed and tried not to let him rile her . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Jazzbeaux tried not to look him in the eye . |
| 19 | Alex Household drew aside to let him into the flat . |
| 20 | For the most part , however , he found more to preoccupy him outside France ( where he feared the imminent outbreak of a global conflict ) than inside . |
| 21 | He sent me a number of his books , all suitably inscribed in his very Chinese style , and I stopped off to visit him and his wife at Brighton , south of Boston , in 1951 . |
| 22 | Water-pistols rose up to meet him . |
| 23 | Another spectre of his too-vivid memory rose up to tempt him . |
| 24 | Seb shouted up to tell him what had happened and it took Dolly no more than a couple of minutes to hurry downstairs and throw open the cottage door . |
| 25 | Staff tried unsuccessfuly to revive him . |
| 26 | We tried frantically to reach him with our walkie-talkies , but he was somewhere en route from the island of Gozo . |
| 27 | Franca had in fact tried vainly to waken him that morning , stirring him a little and calling his name . |
| 28 | When he accepted a call from Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City in 1911 the Mayor and Corporation of Birmingham tried unsuccessfully to keep him in Birmingham . |
| 29 | Shortly afterwards he left the licensed dealer which then tried unsuccessfully to get him sacked from the stockbroker he had persuaded to give him a job . |
| 30 | The people drew back to let him pass . |