Example sentences of "and [vb past] him [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | For it was the Spirit who called Philip from his successful mission in Samaria to reach the Ethiopian eunuch with the gospel ( 8:29 and probably 26 ) , and led him on his further preaching tour as far as the very Hellenised city of Caesarea . |
| 2 | A brave reporter thrust a microphone under his nose and asked him for his comments . |
| 3 | Eventually Ken was referred to a doctor who had an interest in dietary factors in disease , and asked him about his diet It emerged that Ken drank 20 cups of tea or coffee , both very strong , in the course of the average day . |
| 4 | I talked to him after a recent gig in Manchester ( which saw Robben playing with Roscoe Beck on bass and drummer Tom Brechtlien ) and asked him about his new album . |
| 5 | He then turned to the general strike and asked him about his role in it . |
| 6 | She went to the parson 's house after dark , and met him near his gate . |
| 7 | When he came round , they dragged him outside and flung him in his night-clothes , into a car and handcuffed him . |
| 8 | The effort he had put into creating another character , a Daniel Miller , would have turned in upon him and transformed him into his own words . |
| 9 | ( Jones , as everyone would have expected , welcomed his vanquished opponent on board with great courtesy , and invited him to his own wrecked cabin for a glass of wine . ) |
| 10 | Bob Monkhouse , best known as a comedy writer and actor for television and radio , and playing his first straight acting role in the West End , as Buddy 's elder brother , Alan , spotted Crawford 's comedy potential and invited him to his home , where they spent an evening reading the play . |
| 11 | Martin glanced at Marjorie 's stricken face , seized the child 's thin wrist and jerked him to his feet . |
| 12 | Sub-Prior Richard , a kindly soul even to those for whom he had no particular liking , grew anxious , and went to look for the stray , and found him on his bed in the dortoir , pallid and shivering , pleading sickness and looking pinched , grey and cold . |
| 13 | But his personality — assertive and brash yet essentially both cheerful and tough — gradually communicated itself to the public and helped him to his greatest triumph : his victory in the 1948 election . |
| 14 | ‘ Then , when we realised and accepted the situation , I just got on and helped him with his fight . ’ |
| 15 | Unable to accept again the superstitions he had discarded , nevertheless with time and misfortune he found himself turning back to the three deities who had guided his early life , and helped him through his harsh apprenticeship as a scribe : the reasonable Thoth , ibis-headed , god of the scribes ; Horus , son of Osiris ; and the protector of the hearth , Bes — the little god of his childhood . |
| 16 | But it was Wang Sau-leyan who rose and helped him from his chair ; who walked with him , his arm about his shoulder , to the steps . |
| 17 | Lewis had written to Uncle Hilbert and told him of his intention to name his son after him , inviting him to be the child 's godfather . |
| 18 | Yet he had since seen Aycliffe and told him of his unaltered intention to come into possession of them by wedding her . |
| 19 | In his early forties , with a hawklike profile , he was good-looking enough , yet in a voracious , untrustworthy style that warned people off , and injured him in his business . |
| 20 | Socialist Euro MPs jeered and heckled him during his key speech to the European Parliament , in which he spoke of Britain 's ‘ triumphs ’ of the Edinburgh Summit . |
| 21 | Cecil crept up behind Sam and poked him with his over-sized weapon . |
| 22 | Immediately after the assessment interview the therapist telephoned their general practitioner , and informed him of his assessment and proposed management . |
| 23 | After three or four casual meetings with the critic Mervyn Levy , Minton took him on one side at the Chelsea Arts Club and informed him of his homosexuality , not wishing to implicate Levy unwittingly with a man who , from a certain point of view , was beyond the pale . |
| 24 | When he came into her she stuck him like a pig and ripped him from his abdomen up to his breastbone . |
| 25 | A hand wrapped itself into his collar and hauled him to his feet , and then his arms were pinned behind his back in what felt like two huge fists . |
| 26 | Scott grabbed him by the lapels and hauled him to his feet . |
| 27 | Inevitably his mother nursed and protected him in his early years , and this was the basis of a deep , perhaps inordinately and unhealthily deep , attachment of son to mother . |
| 28 | When he was only seven , his horse threw him and hammered him with his hooves . |
| 29 | Sir Hugh Casson had helped Charles and encouraged him with his painting for many years , and is impressed by his skill . |
| 30 | He showed that he understood Lisner 's thoughts and encouraged him in his dream ; Lisner wrote to me that ‘ John was excited about my plans … my enthusiasm stimulated him and his own infectious enthusiasm affected me in turn . ’ |