Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] him [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , gently , he pulled her down with him into a nest of long fragrant grasses . |
| 2 | He relaxed his death-hold on me and made me sit down with him on a convenient bench . |
| 3 | Ferryman had kipped down with him for a while , till one night , turning over in his sleep , Jackie had given him such a clout with the iron boot it nearly took his hip off . |
| 4 | Managing Director David Kohler , who owns a substantial part of the club , offered Pleat the opportunity to come in with him as a partner . |
| 5 | Well Chris says he 's got ta keep in with him for a little while , he said he |
| 6 | Rindi was a shy and diminutive man of indeterminate age , whom we first met at the Keraing 's house and persuaded to take us along with him on a number of occasions to record his unenviable working day or , rather , night . |
| 7 | The children skipped along with him for a few yards and he saw how beguiling their faces were , the large dark eyes , the straggle of thick black hair , the earnest looks of desperate innocence . |
| 8 | Maybe she 'd play along with him for a while . |
| 9 | He went straight over to Brian , saying , ‘ So , you want escape ? ’ and started raining blows down on him with a stick . |
| 10 | Indeed , there were times when his gratitude pressed down on him like a crushing burden slumped across his shoulders . |
| 11 | She was bearing down on him like a bull in full charge when he jumped the wide steps and with a cry of terror threw himself against the front door of the house . |
| 12 | ‘ Now I wo n't come down on him like a ton of bricks if he misses chances but I do n't want to see him becoming uptight and letting other aspects of his game suffer if things do n't go right — as against Norway . |
| 13 | If anyone was coming here to do some subversive overthrowing , everyone 'd be down on him like a pound of bricks as soon as he answered ‘ Yes ’ . ’ |
| 14 | And the committee could have come down on him like a ton of bricks . |
| 15 | But there was a part of her that still would n't give in to him without a fight . |
| 16 | ‘ Changed days , Piper ! ’ remarked Jimmy , as I sat down beside him on a bale of hay . |
| 17 | Nicolo grinned as he drew her down beside him on a marble bench . |
| 18 | Cadfael shepherded his charge within , and watched him subside gratefully on to the narrow cot , and sit there mute for a moment , laying his burden down beside him with a kind of caressing gentleness . |
| 19 | A large framed photograph of Joe Louis in fighting stance looked menacingly down at him from a supporting beam as he walked through the saloon bar doorway . |
| 20 | She smiled down at him in a funny way , stroked his head , touched his cheek with the back of her fingers . |
| 21 | When Sigarup climbed up the ladder , straining under the weight of his basket , the dog sidled over to him with a low unearthly grunt of pleasure . |
| 22 | ‘ Garry and Maeve intend to take their time in getting it over to him in a way he will understand , ’ said 72-year-old Luise , of Milton Keynes , Bucks , yesterday . |
| 23 | I 'd have liked to have cut the face off of him with a few choice words . |
| 24 | When , in well-cut white satin and glycerine tears , she sobbed , Oh but Daddy I do love him , I do love him , he still tried to reason with her ; but then when he saw her hitching up the satin and running across the lawn , throwing off the veil , scattering the astonished wedding guests as she ran , and when he saw her jumping into a truck , not caring that she was getting petrol stains all over her broderie anglaise , jumping into a truck and not with the man they all expected her to love , but with the one she really loves , and then driving off with him in a cheap pickup truck to a motel in Wisconsin , shouting out , Goodbye Father , Goodbye Father ! as she goes ; well when he saw her doing that then Boy could not bring himself to disapprove . |
| 25 | Rooks streamed up towards him from a small area of woodland . |
| 26 | This seems to suggest an assailant unknown to him coming up behind him with a weapon in the right hand , holding him round the neck with the left arm ( fabric traces in the teeth ) to prevent him shouting . |
| 27 | Photographs of the period show a grinning Duke with his ten-foot board looming up behind him like a tall wooden tombstone , his name engraved on the deck like an epitaph . |
| 28 | MALCOLM ALLISON has advised Bristol Rovers to bring in Manchester City coach Tony Book to link up with him as a joint managerial team . |
| 29 | His post as chief executive more or less folded up under him in a wholesale shake-up of staff . |
| 30 | Anger bubbled up inside him like a clean spring ; he shouted , thumped the kitchen table with his fist until the dirty cups and saucers danced . |