Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [verb] him [art] " in BNC.

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1 I opened my eyes and gave him a puzzled look .
2 ‘ Style , ’ she replied , throwing her long fair hair over her shoulders and flashing him the toothpaste smile again .
3 The father put both hands on his son 's shoulders and pushed him a step or two towards Lucier .
4 Eventually I fell on my knees and called him a fucking bastard , and he just laughed .
5 She touched her fingers to her lips and blew him a kiss , laughing huskily .
6 But it was n't his deeds that made him a Christian , it was his trust in Jesus Christ .
7 Edward , thinking with relief that he could leave them to it now , began to withdraw , clutching the bottles that gave him a certain exemption , free to come and go .
8 He stared back and , blushing with confusion , she rose to her feet and gave him a little bob .
9 ‘ Thank you , that was very good of you , ’ she murmured politely , but , feeling intimidated suddenly — or was that her guilty conscience again at work , she got to her feet and handed him the proof that she was who she said she was .
10 I saw three movements and told him the Sonata would sound better if he made a very flashy last movement , but with content .
11 He expected Caterina to be there to tell him that Rosalba absolutely refused to meet him in such compromising circumstances and considered him a blackguard and a monster even to suggest such an assignation .
12 ‘ 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 . ’
13 He looked at the Substitute who stuck the cigar between his teeth and handed him the sheet of paper saying :
14 Chris Renninson set Hibberd away down the right and his excellent control took him past two defenders and gave him the time and space to send over a pinpoint cross to O'Shea , who rose unchallenged to head home from close range .
15 I wrote to him every few days and gave him the details of everything that happened and everyone I met .
16 Joe had met up with Benny again on one of his rare trips to his old haunts and offered him a job , which Benny was glad to accept .
17 Dad was flaring his nostrils and giving him a wild stare .
18 It was only that now , having finally admitted that she loved him , that she 'd loved him almost from the moment they 'd met , she was able to admit that it was those very same qualities that made him the man he was .
19 I always wrote the replies and told him the news and reassured him that Mum was watching his widow , which it gave her great pleasure to do .
20 A combination of clerical opposition and papal objections thwarted his attempts to tax the clergy directly , but to the king Winchelsey constituted a far greater problem than the pope who , susceptible to more and wider pressures , gradually modified his objections to Edward 's aims and granted him a papal tenth in 1301 .
21 The contract resolved his own financial difficulties and gave him a very competitive car .
22 These documents were intended to set out clearly the basis on which services would be provided to a customer , to inform him of his rights and to give him the opportunity of allowing or prohibiting certain types of transactions such as off-exchange transactions , borrowings on his behalf and illiquid investments .
23 Sugar have provided the right vehicle for Mould to tether his current world-view to , providing ( with Mould 's guitar and the tightness of the rhythm section ) a set of beautifully hard-knuckled rock arrangements that give him the clout he needs to reinforce the feeling inherent in his vocals .
24 Isambard , putting the door to very softly behind him , was stabbed by yet another of the recollections that fronted him every way where Harry was .
25 Garvey 's twisted his dreams and taken the pageant from him and turned the plays to his own ends and made him a party to this … this blasphemy !
26 They took him to their rooms and gave him a glass of vodka or slivović and teased him .
27 Jack Carter fumbled a cigarette out of a packet of Players and gave him a light .
28 Katja Müller blinked back her tears and shot him an angry glance .
29 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 .
30 By evading him earlier that morning she 'd played into his hands , at the same time both increasing his suspicions and giving him the best part of the day to allay them .
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