Example sentences of "[vb past] him [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Francis believes he could become Alan Shearer 's partner in the England side , and rated him highly enough to agree a new , four-year contract in the summer worth £4,000 a week . |
| 2 | Another guard frisked him expertly then led him up the steps into the house . |
| 3 | Delaney helped him through then took the lead . |
| 4 | He had slept well , entirely oblivious of the thunderstorms that Edith told him somewhat reproachfully had kept her sleepless an night . |
| 5 | I disabused his mind on this point by telling him about the fresh pug marks I had seen at the pool , and advised him very strongly to collect his buffaloes and return to the village . |
| 6 | The Foreign Office advised him very strongly to take no part in the transaction , but this was in fact an encouragement . |
| 7 | He was closer to William Rogers , Nixon 's first secretary of state , then to Henry Kissinger , though the press showed him more frequently embracing the latter . |
| 8 | Norman heard him out then said : ‘ You do n't put bums on seats . |
| 9 | Cranston , despite his befuddled wits , heard him out then bellowed in righteous indignation . |
| 10 | On their third night she ordered him quite roughly to bring his legs closer together and found a way of rubbing herself against his knee while sucking at his neck that made him shudder . |
| 11 | Rostov cursed him in newly acquired Yek . |
| 12 | Keith Ward of Physics , and myself , followed him around carefully noting his choices and resolutely not commenting lest we influence him . |
| 13 | The Soviet people who once cheered him on now jeer at him . |
| 14 | The two storm-troopers who pinned him down now rubbed the salt all over his body , massaging it into his skin , tearing the cuts wider as they did so . |
| 15 | He was a primitive misogynist whose hatred of the wife of one of his friends led him quite seriously to plan her murder . |
| 16 | But his enthusiasm for system led him too easily to assume that a native administration duly gazetted was a native administration actually functioning as a responsible organ of local government , and this set a limit to his achievements in reform . |
| 17 | I thought well , you must have rode him up there thinking you know , get him something to watch . |
| 18 | The revellers in the foyer , who included some of the more anxious in decorous nightwear , were shooed upstairs to bed by Alastair Goodlad , once the Party 's deputy Chief Whip , whose butlerian rotundity made him quite admirably suited to the task . |
| 19 | The experience which Anderson gained while working directly for the newly independent governments of Africa made him uniquely well placed for his second career , in the field of development co-operation . |
| 20 | Charlotte , her eyes on Albert who was taking her attention , asked him rather half-heartedly to desist , but the boy threw the ball out of the window . |
| 21 | I knew him well enough to spot that . |
| 22 | Already she knew him well enough to realise he would never make threats he was n't prepared to carry out . |
| 23 | Florian broke off , looking astonished , and Maria knew him well enough to realise that his attention had made a rare leap outward . |
| 24 | But Amanda knew him well enough to suspect that he might be bluffing . |
| 25 | She knew him too well to imagine he 'd let her get away easily , even when he learned there was money . |
| 26 | Wycliffe had scarcely spoken since leaving the hall and Scales knew him too well to try to involve him in conversation . |
| 27 | This superb American served the Allies on the sea and in the post-war relief organizations till disgust at the treatment of the Poles by the Western Alliance sent him back home to lick his wounds and write an epic book . |
| 28 | Cos I 'll have to confess to you , I saw him diligently once looking below the pulpit |
| 29 | First Parker put him clear only to see him miscontrol and allow Gunn to save — and then Gunn kept out his close-range diving header . |
| 30 | Now you can assume that whoever put him in just made a mistake , or panicked , and could n't find enough bullets , or something , but the careful cutting out of all those clothes labels does n't look like panic , or making careless mistakes . |