Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] him [prep] [art] " 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 | Then , gently , he pulled her down with him into a nest of long fragrant grasses . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He relaxed his death-hold on me and made me sit down with him on a convenient bench . |
| 7 | He looked up at her and smiled and she lay down with him on the grass in the sun . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Fergus had motioned him to sit down with him behind the hide , and to keep quiet . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Managing Director David Kohler , who owns a substantial part of the club , offered Pleat the opportunity to come in with him as a partner . |
| 14 | Well Chris says he 's got ta keep in with him for a little while , he said he |
| 15 | ‘ You could be right , sister dear , but a man in his position needs a wife , and I would fit in with him in every way . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Lou went along with him for every show , with a place always reserved for her in the front row . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Maybe she 'd play along with him for a while . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I think of another man , to whom I had said something about Jesus Christ while marching down alongside him to an army parade ! |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He went straight over to Brian , saying , ‘ So , you want escape ? ’ and started raining blows down on him with a stick . |
| 27 | He turned and saw the waiter bearing down on him with an anxious look on his face . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Oh , hello … ’ the Doctor replied , not able to tell who was bearing down on him in the fog . |
| 30 | Indeed , there were times when his gratitude pressed down on him like a crushing burden slumped across his shoulders . |