Example sentences of "and [vb -s] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 This corkscrews the opponent backwards over his supporting leg and dumps him on the mat .
2 Yet though the witches bring his already existing ambition out they can not be completely blamed for his downfall and degeneration as it this , his own ambition which eventually takes him over and turns him into a psychopath , killing merely out of feeling and without reason .
3 When the nest is complete the female approaches the male and nudges him in the flank to gain his confidence .
4 The Chinese believe that to stand on one leg while kicking with the other unbalances the practitioner and places him at a disadvantage .
5 His abolition of the subject carries with it the demise of the individual as the locus of knowledge and agency , and places him in a position where , as we saw , there can be no question of compromise with individualism .
6 If a woman holds a man 's hand as he lights her cigarette and strokes him behind the knees with her foot , is it a secret sign ?
7 She sees through his unctuous manners to his black-hearted designs , and shoots him on the spot , but it too late , and she is surrounded by Kuomintang forces .
8 She sees red and kills him with a very convenient weapon .
9 The lion immediately jumps on him and forces him to the ground .
10 His business licenses him to fraternise with the enemy and casts him in the role of a Microsoft independent software developer-come-OEM , complete with an early access copy of Microsoft NT .
11 Then the older one bends over the younger and kisses him on the lips , hastily and shyly .
12 He fears , as this moving tableau blots out his view , that she does not want to look at him but , then , just as he is allowing himself this painful thought , she turns and kisses him on the eyes before taking his cock in her mouth .
13 She takes his face between her hands and kisses him on the lips .
14 Crilly hugs my brother back warmly and introduces him to the languid one .
15 Next to the circumcision ceremony , this is the most important event in a young Jewish boy 's life , and invests him with a measure of maturity as well as a commensurate sense of responsibility .
16 Even when he makes mistakes he does it in a way that still brings results and takes him over the gain line .
17 and takes him from the hospital up to Southwold .
18 The ideal of land registration is that a government office , after investigating the title , enters the applicant upon the register as owner , and furnishes him with a certificate in accordance with the entry ; the entry is conclusive as to his right , and no further investigation of the previous title can subsequently be necessary .
19 In a world of single parents , almost all of them female , it is the relationship that the young man has with a solid male figure that gives him an edge and keeps him on the straight and narrow .
20 She has n't seen him for 20 years and remembers him as a ‘ nice guy ’ .
21 Not only is having had some form of employment considered to increase a job seeker 's attractiveness to an employer and diminish the chances of a devaluation of his work skills , but temporary placings themselves can turn into permanent ones , either because the temporary position is made permanent or because the employer becomes acquainted with the capabilities of the temporary worker and recruits him into a vacant permanent position.1 Special temporary employment schemes such as the Community Programme are often justified in this manner , the suggestion being that they raise the chances of the long-term unemployed finding jobs some threefold ( Turner , 1985 ) .
22 Rather it will be a case of the researcher finding a means of recording and sorting the mass of detail which continuously bombards him and presents him with the lateral possibilities which make the discipline potentially dangerous .
23 We then see the goal , hopeful chip into the box , Rush attempts to take it to one side on the half volley with Fairclough bearing down , misses it completely , flies up and hits him in the shoulder .
24 Any action on the part of a religious or other teacher which undermines an individual 's awareness of his personal and family duties and leaves him with the means to claim that a ‘ god ’ will relieve him of them , is an action which is utterly irresponsible .
25 She rescues him , drives him out of town as dawn starts to break and leaves him in a wheatfield .
26 The most vital rule , the rule never to be broken , the rule which marks the true Arab and lifts him above the morass of intrigue and materiality which now dominates his world and indeed ours , is the rule of hospitality .
27 He stuffs his pistol into the top of his trousers , tilts one of the two heavies back onto the rear chairlegs and drags him out the door , clumping down the steps to the gloom outside .
28 A tug on it sounds a buzzer in the driver 's cab and brings him to a halt .
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