Example sentences of "[vb past] him [vb infin] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Never leave home without one , ’ she said with a grim laugh , and helped him drag the unconscious man on to the floor . |
| 2 | Len Vickery finished third after carding a score of 68a round which helped him secure the past captain 's cup . |
| 3 | This helped him take an individual approach to problems , but he stayed in touch with other workers , and his findings were always made available . |
| 4 | Mark Roe explains the swing change that helped him win the recent Lancome Trophy . |
| 5 | For a moment she thought he was going to slam the phone down , then she heard him give a deep sigh . |
| 6 | God , he was so gorgeous … her hands were moving on to his strong thoat , thrusting into his black hair , she was losing her head again as the kiss deepened and she heard him give a low growl of harsh excitement , his mouth increasing the pressure until Rachel was obliterated by him , dazed , clutching him with shaking hands , gasping hoarsely against his mouth , feeling his strong hands move swiftly up to her breasts to stroke her nipples and force a long hoarse cry of exquisite desire from her . |
| 7 | This time she heard him use a rude word , and said out aloud , ‘ Oh , Michael , you should never say that . ’ |
| 8 | She heard him close the front door gently behind him . |
| 9 | She heard him slam the front room door and went back into the bedroom . |
| 10 | You never heard him say a bad word or anything like that . |
| 11 | ‘ I never heard him say an unkind thing about anybody and I never heard anybody say an unkind thing about him . ’ |
| 12 | I heard him question the Indian and I reached into the cat for the map which he had left on his seat . |
| 13 | There was a pause , and I heard him take a deep breath . |
| 14 | She heard him take a quick , sharp breath . |
| 15 | With Caliban it 's as if somebody made him drink a whole bottle of whisky . |
| 16 | He did not take the sheaf of notes Marshall tendered but made him recite the relevant ones and in that way learned that three people said they had been wearing clothes which were , at least in part , cream-coloured . |
| 17 | In four areas local conditions made him favour a unitary approach and the same authority would , therefore , ‘ exercise both regional and district responsibilities ’ ( Senior 1969 : 159 ) . |
| 18 | However , the Canadian who stole the stuff turned up in the middle of the night with a revolver , took all the money my father had , and made him unload the entire cargo . |
| 19 | It made him look a little as though he were on safari . |
| 20 | It must be his over-sensitive suspicious mind that made him see a relieved relaxing of those muscled shoulders . |
| 21 | This made him see the great urgency of persuading ‘ such ignorant , presumptuous and careless sinners as the world aboundeth with ’ to repent and believe in Christ . |
| 22 | She also made him promise the usual things like writing to her every day and keeping warm . |
| 23 | His first posting in 1915 took him to the Toba Batak country in Northern Sumatra in time to witness the Muslim Acehnese rising against their Christian rulers ; an event which made him appreciate the approaching crisis of Islam as a focus for nationalism , and impressed upon him the urgent need for Muslim-Christian accommodation . |
| 24 | At least one landing craft commander was for ‘ giving her the gun ’ to speed the tense minutes as they approached the enemy shore , but Lieutenant-Colonel John Durnford-Slater ( Commanding Officer of 3 Commando ) made him maintain a steady speed . |
| 25 | She felt him flip the short skirt up at the back , and jerk her knickers down to her knees . |
| 26 | One huge hand was already placed in the small of her back , pinning her helplessly to the desk : then she felt him wind a thick hank of her blonde hair around his other fist , and jerk her head back . |
| 27 | She felt him pinch the fleshy outer folds of her labia between his fingers , and clip a peg on to it . |
| 28 | She felt him heave a great sigh , and when she looked up saw tears running freely down his cheeks . |
| 29 | Patrick saw him unzip a small pocket . |
| 30 | Phillips straight to Hill and that 's a long ball aimed at Ormanroyd Cooper across to cover and you just saw him grimace a little bit again there as he charged in on Ormanroyd . |