Example sentences of "[verb] him [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I dismissed him as quickly as I could and later found that he had gone to drink himself into a drunken stupor . |
| 2 | The gun roared deafeningly in the small room , its lethal discharge taking Angel Two in the ribcage , almost tearing him in half as it punched him back across the room . |
| 3 | She thought she could know him as well as he knew himself . |
| 4 | But I idiotically thought I could see Antoinette and Piers looking rather amused and I was sure it was because they felt I did n't know him as well as I 'd said . |
| 5 | With luck , the Jews would not be able to find him as quickly as that . |
| 6 | Would she have enjoyed him so much if she had thought the whole thing permanent ? she asked herself sternly now , sitting up in bed and shaking off the poppy and mandragora effect that thinking about that summer had on her . |
| 7 | The leading Coalitionists in the Conservative Party-Austen Chamberlain and Birkenhead-had , perforce , to come to terms with Baldwin , and sustained him as unwillingly as Lloyd George accepted Asquith 's leadership . |
| 8 | But Maureen said sorrowfully , ‘ She wants him there even though she never speaks civilly to him . |
| 9 | He poured wine and brought it across the room to Owen 's chair , pressing him back brusquely when he would have risen to receive the cup . |
| 10 | We just helped him as well as we could in the circumstances . |
| 11 | Three hundred Catholic miners marched in from Cleator Moor , four miles away , intercepted him outside the meeting-hall , beat him as hard as they could , and left him for dead . |
| 12 | He stayed out of the way as much as he could , and Sandy mentioned him as infrequently as possible . |
| 13 | Pat was with him the day a young woman approached him exceedingly politely while he was enjoying his veal — in one of his favourite Italian restaurants , Biagis , he would go for a filleted sole — and asked for his autograph . |
| 14 | Why had it trapped him as neatly as she had done ? |
| 15 | Confident as Sara was of her own skill as a horsewoman , she would have had to know him very well before she dared to ride him , but Bunny , she knew , rode him constantly without fear . |
| 16 | He had asked her what was happening and she told him as truthfully as possible . |
| 17 | ‘ I have n't any serious plans to marry him , if that 's what you 're asking , ’ she told him as levelly as she could , and had the hardest work in the world in hanging on to her temper when his glance flicked from her through the open door into her sitting-room . |
| 18 | He walked swiftly beside the trolley as they wheeled it towards the Theatre lifts , and Kath told him as rapidly as she could what they had established . |
| 19 | He surfaced , briefly , but the swell rolled him over and drove him down again before he 'd even had time to draw breath . |
| 20 | After the New Year , she could no more give him up now than she could cut off her own hands . |
| 21 | Cut out and send with your entry to Mr Greg Rigby , Managing Director , Pendle Consultants Ltd , Pendle House , Long Preston , North Yorks BD23 4PU ( 072 94615 ) to reach him not later than Monday October 16 . |
| 22 | This came out with more bravado than Sally-Anne really felt , and had she seen him more clearly before she intervened she might not have said anything at all . |
| 23 | ‘ The consequences of this man 's actions could have been a lot more serious because of the lady 's age and we are anxious to arrest him as soon as possible . |
| 24 | Well I 'll see him anyway definitely when he comes back . |
| 25 | ‘ You 'll see him in less than three months . ’ |
| 26 | Just a frail little thing , was n't she , the wind could have picked her up and tossed her away , yet she had demolished him as surely as if she had wielded a pick-axe handle to his belly . |
| 27 | From the moment that Grimes renounces salvation ( in everything but his actual words ) the theme pursues him as relentlessly as ever the Furies pursued Orestes . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm not saying kissing you was n't quite pleasant , as kisses go , ’ she informed him as calmly as she could , desperately trying to disguise the way her heart was pounding with fear as she recalled her reactions to that kiss . |
| 29 | He shook him more vigorously than before , this time by his cloak , and said boldly , " I have every right to one " ; adding , " Kiss me . " |
| 30 | I made my preparations and joined him as quickly as I could . |