Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew nothing about him beyond the fact that he was immensely wealthy , the owner of the London-based Silver Star Navigation who for some strange reason had branched out into the fashion industry . |
| 2 | He drags me after him through the woods . |
| 3 | Various witnesses , including shoppers and tramdrivers , gave varying accounts of witnessing Drew or somebody like him at the appropriate time of the murder . |
| 4 | It must have occurred to you that Dawn is probably very jealous — in particular of the fact that he took you with him to the zoo . ’ |
| 5 | His literary prowess was now enforcing itself upon him with the urgency of a destiny , as with all true writers , ‘ born , not made ’ . |
| 6 | That the King 'll keep you beside him at the Palace . ’ |
| 7 | A rite is part of the culture the individual is born into , and it imposes itself on him from the outside like the rest of his culture . |
| 8 | He fumbled for his skeleton keys and realised that he had not brought them with him from the car . |
| 9 | He turned to reach the two glasses of wine that stood on a bedside table ; he 'd brought them with him from the dinner table . |
| 10 | He thought he had them with him in the coach when going to the College , but did not see them again . |
| 11 | There are no fewer than eight sketchbooks concerned with the Demoiselles and although odd pages of these have been removed , Picasso kept them with him until the end of his life , guarding them jealously . |
| 12 | The aim will be fulfilled if the teacher 's aid encourages self-help skills and good personal organisation by the pupil rather than doing everything for him in the way of fetching and returning materials . |
| 13 | you ought to see underneath the fridge , he does this in the kitchen and they 've all gone under the fridge , when you 're at the top shop or any other places where the will you have a look on the cards in the window , I 'm looking for a slide , you know , but a smaller one for him for the garden for the summer really , cos that 's just about had it that one ? |
| 14 | He fumbled a packet from the pocket of his anorak and I lit one for him with the dashboard lighter . |
| 15 | But she was the first in recent memory — for Gentle the past had a way of evaporating after about ten years — who had conspired to remove everything from him in the space of half a day . |
| 16 | We 've heard nothing from him for the past four months since that heart attack in Italy . |
| 17 | He 'd been over the limit , they 'd said , when he 'd crashed his BMW , and there could have been no sympathy whatsoever for him from the relatives of the woman killed in the other car . |
| 18 | She settled herself beside him at the bench and took up the satin slippers she was decorating for Meg . |
| 19 | Had n't he understood that she had given herself to him for the only reason that made any sense to her . |
| 20 | He was in the restaurant kitchen late one night before closing up , knocking back the remains of four glasses of liqueur from a dirty table , when his head suddenly cleared and he heard some lines from the past in a devastating playback in his head : ‘ You 're better off without me ’ — Bella 's voice , coolly justifying herself to him on the telephone . |
| 21 | Thereafter she welcomed Paul 's embraces , thrusting herself at him in the way she had ended by doing on their first night . |
| 22 | It had meant nothing to him at the time , but now … |
| 23 | Crilly leads me into Perry 's flat and seats me beside him on the orange settee . |
| 24 | When Pc Black had found him in the toilets he said he had temporarily removed his glasses to wipe them , and that a friend who was there had brought them to him at the police station . |
| 25 | It was sent by a sad Manc git using my Id cos he 's too scared to use his own — if anyone wishes to reply to his infantile shite they can send them to him at the following address … |
| 26 | His hand captured her face and turned her towards him in the old domineering manner but his eyes were not at all hard . |
| 27 | Yelping in alarm as he tipped her sideways and moved swiftly to trap her beneath him on the sofa , she stared up at him in shock . |
| 28 | The boy rolled over and came on to one knee in a single lunge , and hurling himself at the man , caught him round the thighs with both arms , and swept him with him through the opening . |
| 29 | Without consulting her it began to move faster , inciting her lover to a rhythm which he responded to triumphantly , accelerating in time with their heartbeats , taking her with him towards the culmination she 'd been given a foretaste of , which paled in comparison to the flooding rapture which overtook her seconds before Penry gasped , stiffened , then crushed her in his arms as their breathing slowed in the shared diminuendo of the aftermath . |
| 30 | Roman grasped her arm , pulling her with him into the hotel . |