Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] and [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | His face moved continually , different expressions rippling and flowing across it as if he really were a sea creature , moved and swayed by the changing tide and currents in water , in continual motion — flickering from smile to grimace to pain to peace , eyelids half rising to reveal a sea-shell sightless crescent of pearly blue-white , lips parting then closing , breaths shuddering and shivering him as if air were too strong and coarse a medium . |
| 2 | But he could be ready for anything ; for the churches which had abandoned him ; for the churches like the Philippian one which had continued to care ; for hunger ; for plenty ; for the times when he had no obvious human support , and for the times when his fellow believers came and gave him encouragement . |
| 3 | Devlin kept his eyes closed and let him get on with it . |
| 4 | A fifteen-year-old in grey flannel wandering around London in school holidays with an adolescent 's apocalyptic vision , praying that he would lose his virginity before the bombs came and blasted him to oblivion . |
| 5 | ‘ A general alert has been sent out to certain security personnel in other countries to locate and hold him when found . |
| 6 | It was on an operation in Libya that his family was kidnapped by Arab terrorists to try and force him to countermand the order to attack . |
| 7 | His deeds had made his name synonymous with victory ; the Almoravids feared and hated him ; he had overcome all his enemies and won his way back to the position of Alfonso 's vassal — although , in fact , he overshadowed the King in such a way that Alfonso virtually faded from the scene in the next few years . |
| 8 | Two medics arrived and carried him off to the First Aid Post . |
| 9 | Foreign observers sniggered and called him a basketball player . |
| 10 | Now the probings of the BBC interviewers , those secular confessors who stood for all the modern torturers goading and vexing him — the critics , the reviewers , the Stroud tax-man who sniffed out Waugh 's lucrative tax-dodges — were inside . |
| 11 | His unbuckled trousers slid and tripped him headlong into the corridor outside . |
| 12 | We 've tried all sorts of things erm and we 've erm sort of erm included erm Lesley 's Elmore Support Team has come and talked to him and tried to support him as well , so over the years we have done all sorts of things to try and support him , as I have to try and support all sorts of people . |
| 13 | If he is lucky , he may get one of the party heavyweights to come and support him , in which case he will probably attract a bigger crowd . |
| 14 | You must make your feelings known and ask him if this really is the case . |
| 15 | The judge found the allegations proved and committed him to prison for six months . |
| 16 | At this point one of his rich relations died and left him a lot of money in his will . |
| 17 | The crowds waved and cheered him on , the boats bobbing up and down in the estuary . |
| 18 | But the Germans went and got him . ’ |
| 19 | He held for Alice altogether a great fascination , but she steadfastly refused offers to go and see him in the nursery , and ignored him the few occasions he was on show . |
| 20 | His players respected and loved him as a result . |
| 21 | Her silences infuriated and mortified him . |
| 22 | IBM is very touchy on the issue of morale : last week in New York when we got around to asking Bill Filip what the mood was around the joint , the spin doctors converged and shuffled him off . |
| 23 | His Welsh cousins and their friends flattered and cosseted him ; he was treated as a gentleman-scholar , sharing much of the natural respect of late nineteenth-century Wales for the scholar-preacher-bard , of which his new friend , Gwili , the theologian-bard , was an excellent example . |
| 24 | Recently my father-in-law died , and I was anxious for our children to go and see him and say goodbye . |
| 25 | Then months of lonely captivity in a small cage in a closed place where the wind did not blow , and other men came and examined him and time passing into blankness . |
| 26 | The policeman gave chase but one of the suspects turned and shot him twice in the back w He was rushed to Homerton Hospital where he was said to be in a serious condition early today . |
| 27 | I gave him a hard releasing shove in the general direction of Sam , Perkin and an open-mouthed Gareth and at last watched a dozen restraining hands clutch and keep him from destroying himself entirely , but he struggled against them and turned his vindictive face my way and shouted in still exploding rage , ‘ I 'll kill you . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ The Protection Police arrived and took him off the Otso . |
| 29 | Whilst at the track the police arrived and arrested him for being in possession of a stolen car . |
| 30 | That 's why I 've decided to let his wife and children come and see him . |