Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sat down opposite him at the kitchen table and fixed him with the kind of look that usually preceded a full eighteen-round contest . |
| 2 | Only the line of grim cages among whose bars whined the winter wind , and above them the great plane trees that bent across the sky , their leafless branches bending in the wind like twisted hands that came down towards him from the angry sky . |
| 3 | Down behind him in the straggly little valley , I notice that a few allotments do remain , after all . |
| 4 | He had pulled her down with him into the whirlpool of love , and now that she was submerged and drowning he had left her , escaping through the cloaking mist that hung over the water . |
| 5 | He looked up at her and smiled and she lay down with him on the grass in the sun . |
| 6 | A thousand windows , some reflecting the dying light of the day , stared down with him at the trampled earth , the lines of washing-poles , the puddles . |
| 7 | Fergus had motioned him to sit down with him behind the hide , and to keep quiet . |
| 8 | You see , we 'd got such confidence that she told me that when he died , she said , ‘ He died in his bed here ’ , that we were in , you see ; and she said , ‘ I then closed his eyes and I laid down with him till the morning so that nobody should be disturbed . ’ |
| 9 | Not only had I had that run in with him over the rehearsals but he was also the fussiest teacher in the school when it came to long hair . |
| 10 | And er nearly every boy used to take a handkerchief along with him to the , that was to the Christmas party because that was the only party you had a meal at school . |
| 11 | On Saturdays as a special treat Granpa would allow me to go along with him to the early morning market in Covent Garden , where he would select the fruit and vegetables that we would later sell from his pitch , just opposite Mr Salmon 's and Dunkley 's , the fish and chippy that stood next to the baker 's . |
| 12 | But Connors has taken no serious breaks from the game and its stylistic progress ; his game in itself has durable , idiosyncratic features ( whereas Borg 's became the prototype on which newcomers based their own playing patterns ) ; and he has been able to take his audience along with him through the very gradual decline in his competitive expectations . |
| 13 | Although the Nigeria debate was a relative success after a year of criticism , its significance was not lost on Law : it was held on the subject central to Unionist economic attitudes ; Law and Steel-Maitland were singled out for censure , a pointer to the level of party discontent Party feeling had built up much as Law 's own had done ; having fought off the direct attack , he took the party along with him in the effort to reconstruct the government on more businesslike lines . |
| 14 | And even as its sound struck the cage about him , there was a crash and a judder and the sky was falling in upon him from the darkening night . |
| 15 | Easily distinguishable in his bird-lime-encrusted shirt and shorts , he often had a look in his eye that spoke of clouds and freedom , rather than the shin-splitting hordes bearing down on him in the shape of the Corton Heath Corinthians . |
| 16 | Oh , hello … ’ the Doctor replied , not able to tell who was bearing down on him in the fog . |
| 17 | Small boys spat down on him from the safety of high windows and their mothers clenched their buttocks and turned away their glowing cheeks . |
| 18 | If it be objected that no beginning writer shops around in this way among the idioms handed down to him from the past , the evidence is that certain beginning writers do shop around in just this way ; Ezra Pound was one of them , and he is by no means so exceptional as is supposed . |
| 19 | What decisions , made arbitrarily and in anger , would be handed down to him in the morning ? |
| 20 | In London he sat beside Johnson in their various venues ; now he rode beside him in the post-chaise taking them up through eastern Scotland ; next he would canter along beside him to the Western Isles . |
| 21 | I know that whether it was trying to dig him up for some doubles at Kyalami or just dropping in on him aboard the Queen Mary , I always called up first to make sure he was not otherwise engaged , and I can recall many times when James appeared at the track looking benign but far from fresh . |
| 22 | She sat down beside him on the cool grass . |
| 23 | You 're letting in a draught , ’ whispered Izzie , sitting down beside him in the tail of the wagon . |
| 24 | ‘ And do n't dare tell me it 's going to be too tough for a woman , ’ Mariana shouted , as she glared down at him from the saloon . |
| 25 | After a few minutes , he became aware of Peter Dawson 's portrait staring down at him from the top of the piano , and he stopped . |
| 26 | He looked up , expecting to see the grey skinny man staring down at him from the steps . |
| 27 | A week later he was in the chair at a meeting of the Humanist Society when he suddenly had a vision of Bill Brice looking down at him from the moulding in the corner of the ceiling with a crown of thorns on his head , and look of sweet forgiveness on his face ; whereupon he stood up and made a long , confused speech about the hunger for God that gnawed inside each of us , however stiff-necked and jeering we might be ; which caused great embarrassment to all those present , and even greater embarrassment later to progressive theologians on the staff , who felt that such old-fashioned emotive conversions could only undo all their good work . |
| 28 | In fact on a couple of occasions he had thought he had seen strange green faces peering down at him from the branches . |
| 29 | Oliver was very surprised ; this was the same man he had bumped into once outside a pub , and seen another time with Fagin , looking in at him through the window of the country cottage . |
| 30 | And mummy 's smiling in at him from the outside , look she 's hanging the washing out pretending not to notice what 's going on . |