Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [verb] him [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | But it was I mean you have to admit erm and I 'm I 'll bring Mr Power in and let him speak for himself , but you have to admit that it from what we 've just heard , it started in nineteen seventy four , it 's been going on a long time . |
2 | Selkirk pushed him in and made him squat on a stone ledge while he cut free his bound hands only to fasten gyves to his wrists and ankles ; attached by chains to the wall ; these allowed Corbett to move but quickly chafed his wrists and ankles . |
3 | Carrie said , ‘ She must be stark mad to come in and let him see her like that . |
4 | But he refused to take no for an answer and after a few unseemly tussles Sally decided it was easier to give in and let him explore inside the leg of her panties . |
5 | In the end I had to get it down and let him have a sniff before he . |
6 | ‘ Or do n't tell me that all those questions about Ryan were simply so that you could track him down and make him pay the money back ? ’ |
7 | I 've had to go back up in to him , yeah , but I do n't know what happened last night , I do n't know whether he was not quite tired enough , erm , he must of got up as soon as I put him down and started sort of moaning then I went into the girls and I sorted them out he started screaming he did , so I had to go to him in and lay him down and making him lay down |
8 | She 'll lie down and let him walk over her till the end of her days . |
9 | The sweat was gathering in his brows , getting ready to slide down his nose and make a dewdrop at the end which would either stay there wobbling about very obviously and making him want to sneeze , or force him to draw attention to it by wiping it away . |
10 | The harshness of the alcohol took his breath away and made him choke again , and Paul collapsed in a fit of laughter as he expelled half of it in a further bout of coughing . |
11 | Jezrael 's fingers crisped into the grit beneath her ; even her face worked with the adrenalin that surged up , so much did she want to shove him away and make him save himself . |
12 | I promised to think it over and let him know . ’ |
13 | Not and let him hear it . |
14 | Her hands flew to his shoulders , but whether to fend him off or make him stay she could not have said . |
15 | " For pity 's sake be still and let him get a word in edgeways . " |
16 | ‘ I know he 's tired out and that 's the way he relaxes , but I long to switch the television off and make him listen to me , ’ she complained . |
17 | But things progressed from there , and Hugh began to ask her to take her clothes off and to let him touch her . |
18 | ‘ The answer is to stand off and let him play in front of you , rather than wrestling his way round the back . ’ |
19 | Nutty had gone up to have a nose , sat behind the oil-drum stack early and seen him leave . |
20 | A waiter came up and made him put it on again . |
21 | The thought of a hot lasagne at home cheered him up and helped him ignore the throb of a headache that had begun during the drive up to Kentish Town . |
22 | You know what it 's like to bear a child and bring him up and see him leave you and go to the other side of the world , knowing you 'll not see him again ? |
23 | As he was one of our Corporals , the Military Police had sought him out and made him return to barracks . |
24 | For example , the mother of a five-year-old who always cries when bedtime comes may give in every so often and let him stay up late because she can not bear to see tears . |
25 | I 'm driving along and there was somebody coming round and it was a bit narrow and so I hung back and let him come through |
26 | Finally , on the day that I 'd promised to ring the breeder back and let him know one way or the other , a miracle happened — one of those strokes of luck that seem to come along when you least expect them to . |
27 | There 's no way we 'll sit back and let him continue in this way . |
28 | ‘ Well , Harri , you can either sit back and let him do the digging or you can do a little investigation yourself . ’ |
29 | I 'm happier to stand back and let him do his bit and I 'll do my bit , as long as we 're talking to each other . |
30 | ‘ Could n't you discourage the poor chap , ’ Eleanor Fuller said to her one day , ‘ instead of sitting back and letting him moon around hoping your tyres need pumping up . |