Example sentences of "[vb past] him [adv] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | She took his arm firmly , just above the elbow , and jerked him halfway off his stool . |
| 2 | The vicious front snap-kick caught him caught him just above his right hip , instead of square in the groin , but its force knocked him spinning to the ground . |
| 3 | Perhaps what disturbed him most about his daughter was her uncharacteristic calm . |
| 4 | It was a victory for her each time that she wrested him away from his desk and his teleprinter and his uniform . |
| 5 | Ieuan Evans 's shoulder let him down on his comeback , possibly ruling the Lions wing out for this season , and Neath 's lock prospect Gareth Llewelyn also limped out of contention for a Test place with a knee injury . |
| 6 | Sister Cooney , noting the way he trembled , helped him off with his dressing gown and tucked him in . |
| 7 | ‘ You helped him across to his chamber ? ’ |
| 8 | The coachman reined in his horses , leapt into the road and , seizing the sprawling cyclist , beat him soundly with his whip for having the temerity to overtake the coach . |
| 9 | Rincewind occasionally had nightmares about teetering on some intangible but enormously high place , and seeing a blue-distanced , cloud-punctuated landscape reeling away below him ( this usually woke him up with his ankles sweating ; he would have been even more worried had he known that the nightmare was not , as he thought , just the usual discworld vertigo . |
| 10 | The Bookman woke him up on his return . |
| 11 | Journalists woke him up in his bed with the news and , as I suspected , all hell broke loose . |
| 12 | Owen stirred him gently with his foot . |
| 13 | But she recognised him already from his photograph , although he had put on so much weight . |
| 14 | Friends drove him away to his first night of freedom in twenty months . |
| 15 | As I had a twelfth-hand Hillman Imp at the time I drove him down to his place in South London . |
| 16 | Penda gave one sister in marriage to Cenwealh , king of the upper Thames valley Saxons , and when Cenwealh repudiated her he drove him out of his kingdom by c . |
| 17 | Mr Chan grabbed him and lifted him out in his arms . |
| 18 | Eb could not scream for help , because his jaws were gagged with a handful of dirty cotton-waste , and every time he slipped on the wet paving-stones , they hauled him back to his feet with a blow and a curse , dragging him with them . |
| 19 | ‘ Do n't want you collapsing on us — not good for the department 's reputation , ’ she joked lightly , and wheeled him round and handed him over to his wife . |
| 20 | Although it might sound as though Dawn was petrified of Jasper there were a number of occasions when she scared him out of his skin . |
| 21 | They connected up the drip , set it running and turned him on to his side . |
| 22 | I admired him greatly for his bravery and his cheerfulness . |
| 23 | Mayer knocked the director to the floor and threw him out of his office . |
| 24 | Yet you threw him out of his job just to make room for me . ’ |
| 25 | The headmaster walked him across to his hotel and he was alone till evening . |
| 26 | He was like a gold miner , chipping away at the rocks and occasionally discovering tantalizing little nuggets that spurred him on towards his dream of striking a rich seam . |
| 27 | They milled around and tidied him up to his satisfaction and went on their way singing : |
| 28 | One trait that former ‘ Robben Islanders ’ recall is his remarkable , almost photographic , memory — a quality that served him well in his ascent through the ANC hierarchy . |
| 29 | Nick said , and Frederick roared with laughter and swung him up on his shoulder and ran with him along the railway line as if he weighed nothing . |
| 30 | She picked up her bag and followed him out to his car , hating him for making her feel so gauche , and hating herself more for acting that way in the first place . |