Example sentences of "[prep] him [verb] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The poor duck must have crawled all that way , a hundred metres or more to that second patch of light ; our bright idea of putting the branches down after him to cover him up was pointless ; for all these years it would only have needed some more kids to have come along with torches or bits of burning paper to discover the body . |
| 2 | I could n't stand the thought of him seeing anyone else and so I did the only thing I could think of : I decided to spy on him . |
| 3 | He took her in his arms , holding her close in silence , the sheer size and warmth of him calming her very quickly . |
| 4 | There 's no reason you should be shocked at the thought of him taking me out . |
| 5 | Said Taylor : ‘ I see this as part of David 's natural development and although this is a one-off there is every chance of him taking it on if he is still in the side when Stuart is no longer with us . ’ |
| 6 | She snuggled down and began to drift to sleep , memories of Alain holding her here as she wept on that first day , memories of him bringing her up to bed after he had kissed her in the kitchen , fluttering like moths in the light , easing her into sleep . |
| 7 | Her earliest memory was of him holding her tightly by the hand , when she was just a toddler , in case she strayed too near the rushing river . |
| 8 | He was the kindest , most generous of men , and spread great happiness ( Jane had only to think of him to cheer herself up ) — but was himself a tragic figure , tied to a wife he did not love . |
| 9 | Robyn thought , remembering the way she had flung herself out of the house , the agony of driving home , the touch and taste of him haunting her down every mile of motorway … the floods of tears … |
| 10 | What I knew of him corrupted me far less than the false ideas I conceived . |
| 11 | whether it 's kind of him to keep her there |
| 12 | The thought of him attacking someone else . |
| 13 | The thought of him attacking someone else … |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd not put it past him to lock me up … ’ |
| 15 | That he would have done much more is years to come is certain ; yet the quality and the richness of what he left behind him make it equally certain that this very patient man , who to achieve his ends knew how to take his time , never wasted a minute of his life . |
| 16 | A surge in the crowd behind him jolted him forwards and he saved himself , and the woman , by setting his feet wide and holding onto her shoulders . |
| 17 | up there with him to clean it out because I say , you can isolate things but you 're up in the air . |
| 18 | And he says leave that to the local station , and say , can you leave a message with him to phone me back please . |
| 19 | One had to work under him to discover he never troubled with the charm unless he considered it worth his while . |
| 20 | Twenty minutes later , George Leeming lay as they had first seen him , except that his eyes were now open and his back arched as the doctor had placed a pillow under him to make him more comfortable . |
| 21 | Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself just as he is pure , That 's that 's Colin goes on to say , because you shall be like him does not mean that you are to care little about how much of him can be seen in your life . |
| 22 | The suppressed energy radiating from the man before him reminded him again of McAllister , who possessed all those traits which women were not supposed to share — and how difficult that had made life for her . |
| 23 | ‘ Receiving briefings from him makes it even more like old times , ’ says a Thatcher adviser . |
| 24 | You once said something about him warning you away from magic ? ’ |
| 25 | She knew too much about him to let him live . |
| 26 | He 's not talking about him beating him up . |
| 27 | Naked except for the band round his belly ; yet something about him marked him immediately as a singular character . |
| 28 | His sister Julie Seddon , 28 , of Skelmersdale , made an emotional appeal for him to give himself up . |
| 29 | She was vaguely aware of the irony of seeking safety from the man who threatened a danger far greater than any she had ever faced , but she pressed closer — needing him , wanting him , longing for him to hold her forever . |
| 30 | It had been agreed that Mary-Claude and the children would make their way independently to Spain , and wait for him to join them there . |