Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No collection of his own papers survives , nor is there much about him in the letters of others . |
| 2 | Von Stein had fallen to his knees , and stared dazedly about him at the ruined lab . |
| 3 | There was once in the olden days a giant who lived on Penhill who had all below him in the dale in his thrall . |
| 4 | On the other hand , what Alcuin has to say must be set beside the respect accorded Aelfwald 's memory at Hexham where the king was buried ( ASC D , s.a. 788 ) , which shows that the community at Hexham thought highly of him in the twelfth century and probably earlier . |
| 5 | She could cope well enough with him in the office where their point of contact was work , but occasional moments — like last Saturday , sitting in the sunshine in the garden of her flat , and today on the train — had shown her a glimpse of Luke the man , not simply Luke the employer . |
| 6 | It 's a rare person who can ignore a letter sent personally to him over the signature of Clint Eastwood or Charlton Heston , saying ‘ I need your help ’ . |
| 7 | Diane Bailey , the Curtis Cup captain , seized on the Jacklin example and so did Geoff Marks and all around him at the Walker Cup in ‘ 89 , and their teams responded magnificently . |
| 8 | It crept stealthily towards him over the mud , advancing , retreating , advancing again like a living creature stalking its prey . |
| 9 | He was in a dream , aware of the sharp , early air and the smell of damp earth , seeing the vast pearly spread of the estuary far away below him beyond the fading gold necklaces of the street-lights , and yet altogether apart from his everyday world . |
| 10 | And he picked up Gabriel with just one arm round his hips , and stumped stolidly away with him to the privacy of the inn . |
| 11 | He took it away with him for the weekend , to his home in Oxfordshire . |
| 12 | His mother , who had spent longer with him in the garden than usual that day , led him into the sitting room when they returned to the house . |
| 13 | The 31-year-old British No.1 , who put out seventh seed Michael Chang en route to the fourth round 12 months ago , opens against Argentinian clay court specialist Javier Frana , ranked just above him in the world at 87 . |
| 14 | The feathers floated away from him on the light breeze , catching at the grey budding branches of the tree beneath him , drifting down to where the few Men and People who were there looked helplessly up . |
| 15 | The summons of Winchelsey to Rome only served to redirect baronial irritation away from him to the pope . |
| 16 | He examined the long split-level room stretching away from him to the tall windows at the far end . |
| 17 | The ravine widened and opened upon the sly , the curtain-wall with its vast bulk of darkness curved away from him to the right , and left him . |
| 18 | The same powers which took my friend 's video away from him at the airport and threatened his livelihood into the bargain , have routinely been used against our whole culture . |
| 19 | ‘ Give me time , ’ and she looked away from him at the distant hills . |
| 20 | The veils of sleep and illusion dropped away and she moved as far away from him as the seatbelt allowed , turning her face to the window . |
| 21 | He looked up and he saw two people walking or appearing to walk away from him down the white road of the tunnel and out across the green hills . |
| 22 | As they walked away from him through the greenness , the pale blue above them , Maggie said , her voice thick with emotion , ‘ Daddy is just lovely when he 's like that . ’ |
| 23 | She had been walking away from him towards the path that led to the gate and she turned her head and said , ‘ Did n't want to disturb you ; you looked so peaceful , asleep . ’ |
| 24 | I stepped away from him towards the wall . |
| 25 | Although she was sitting only a foot or two away from him in the opposite corner of the seat and had frequently tried to smile at him , he felt inexplicably betrayed . |
| 26 | Indeed , their bodies were brushing each other when Ven raised an arm and , as if meaning to turn her away from him in the direction she must go , placed it around her shoulder . |
| 27 | He jerked him to his feet , and separating the thin wrists he held , twisted them together again behind the boy 's back , and so thrust him painfully before him along the passageway to the staircase . |
| 28 | Mr Larkin says his suffering is worse for knowing that Gary had only agreed to go to Chorley at the last minute after two people , a man and a woman , had spoken separately to him on the phone . |
| 29 | If they were still with him at the end of tomorrow , he could complain , but not until then . |
| 30 | I hope to be able to discuss it further with him in the not-too-distant future . |