Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] and [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Big-punching Wharton is also free of the agony in his right hand that plagued him for months and reduced him to a one-armed fighter when he was held to a draw by Londoner Lou Gent in November . |
| 2 | As Sister and Nurse Robins are swigging coffee with that drag Jones , I took him down the short cut through Eyes and shoved him into 15 . |
| 3 | I raced against Cameron Sharp a number of times and beat him , so it was galling to find a few weeks later that he was racing Carl Lewis on the Continent . |
| 4 | Martyn Goff was repeatedly amazed by his knowledge of books and recollects him quoting from Shakespeare and Moby Dick at length , whilst simultaneously rolling his eyes in parodic style . |
| 5 | ‘ Give him a packet of fags and tell him to piss off ! ’ |
| 6 | Jack Carter fumbled a cigarette out of a packet of Players and gave him a light . |
| 7 | She could believe that this was the creature that had floated inside her — yes , like a starry astronaut in his liquid capsule , attached to his red life-support cable — she had pored over photographs of embryos and imagined him a hundred times . |
| 8 | She takes a pack of cigarettes and offers him one . |
| 9 | It is incumbent upon every Muslim who has access to this mercenary author to drive this harmful being out of the way of Muslims and punish him , ’ he added in a report from the Iranian news agency IRNA . |
| 10 | The dentist was very decent , looked up his records although he did n't need to , because he 'd treated Mr. Stavanger for years and knew him quite well . |
| 11 | I declined with thanks and waved him on : I had only two more miles to walk to Shiel Bridge and could n't get any wetter and did n't want to repay his kindness by spraying water all over his car . |
| 12 | Regretfully , he had to let it all pass ; he knew such behaviour would have created a bad impression with editors and got him laughed at — the thing he most feared . |
| 13 | An understanding of the subject will help the reader to communicate with people in the business community as well as with accountants and enable him or her to participate more effectively in financial decision-making . |
| 14 | Boys who would turn into men and follow him round the world , stand beside him at bars , exchange vulgarities , share the favours of the golf groupies , the young girls and some not so young , who hung around any group of sportsmen . |
| 15 | It was always by accident I 'd come upon him with others and watch him converse with people I 'd known nearly all my life , lighting them with his interest , vignettes in which I played no part . |
| 16 | A BRAVE grandmother smothered a knife-wielding robber with kisses and begged him not to kill her or her three-year-old grand-daughter . |
| 17 | They bombarded him with letters and rang him up at least once a week . |
| 18 | ‘ I want to know the identity of a man , I want to reach him , I want to put him in handcuffs and read him a charge of First Degree murder . ’ |
| 19 | The alcohol had sapped the strength out of his jaw muscles so that the skin fell in folds and made him look like a tortoise . |
| 20 | The assistance , however late in the day , gave Hewett a new lease of life ; he flew at Slatter , striking him so hard with his police stick that he split it in pieces and knocked him out . |
| 21 | But if he looks as though he may pounce on them , they shoot at him , and if they kill him , they cut him in pieces and roast him and regale themselves , repeating all the while , ‘ It is the Russians who are eating you , not us . ’ |
| 22 | Lewis 's doctor put him on tranquillizers and advised him to go away on holiday . |
| 23 | It invariably ended with Uncle Titch pretending to get cross with the clown on stilts and chasing him along the street on his fat little legs and trying to kick him up the bum and falling over backwards . |
| 24 | His Mum helped herself to peas and poured him lemonade . |
| 25 | Because the sons of the primal father both loved and hated him the possibility arose that those of them who by luck or design chanced on their actual fathers in their hunt for women and killed him or drove him off ( most probably the former , the latter seems insufficiently traumatic ) would have gratified one side of their ambivalent feelings , but would by the same action have frustrated the other . |
| 26 | After all , she was all right to flirt with at parties and escort him occasionally . |
| 27 | Reality Therapy involves confronting the sufferer with the reality of life as perceived by others and helping him or her gradually to change the perception of how life should be so that it comes nearer to how life actually is . |