Example sentences of "the [noun pl] and [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | He eventually let go of me and I had to go the bottom of the baths and bring him to the surface , take him to the side and get him breathing again , and I was considered a failure for that . |
| 2 | A crowd of eager customers would be awaiting his arrival outside the shops and attack him for the particular colour , size or style of dress they had been waiting for . |
| 3 | Twice , when Meredith ordered ‘ Two steps stage left ’ and Geoffrey moved to the right , Meredith came bounding down the centre aisle shouting ‘ Left , left , ducky ’ and leapt onto the apron to seize him by the shoulders and shove him into place . |
| 4 | The nurse and the doctor left the room together for a moment and she grabbed him by the shoulders and shook him desperately , with an air-lock in her throat as though she were in a temper . |
| 5 | One distinguished scientist was so indignantly incredulous that he seized Galambos by the shoulders and shook him while complaining that we could not possibly mean such an outrageous suggestion . |
| 6 | His Mum took him by the shoulders and turned him to face her . |
| 7 | Trung grabbed him by the shoulders and turned him bodily in the direction of the village . |
| 8 | They put the stranger down on the outskirts and left him standing in the middle of the road , his face in shadow under his cap and just a glimmer of those white , pebbly eyes . |
| 9 | Scott grabbed him by the lapels and hauled him to his feet . |
| 10 | Nicholson reached across the desk , grabbing Hugo by the lapels and pulling him towards him . |
| 11 | Then she drew him on to the covers and pushed him gently back . |
| 12 | She caught up with Pascoe by the lifts and told him she would like to talk . |
| 13 | Namely he has expressed his wish to King Leopold of the Belgians and requested him to press us for a withdrawal . |
| 14 | So what he had to do , the the the the customer in fact , is end up by climbing up the bannister to get to the top so that he could get hold of the lad that was at the top get hold of him by the feet and pull him upwards and over and er finally free the man at the bottom . |
| 15 | Sweet and Quine both played guitar for Lloyd Cole back in 1990 — Sweet live , and Quine live and on the record — but while Lloyd Cole kept Quine on a leash , refining his parts and cutting and reconstructing his solos , Sweet just tosses him the keys and lets him rip . |
| 16 | Envoys have already been sent to the Norwegian court to apprise King Eric of the circumstances and to beg him to send the Maid back to Scotland as soon as possible . |
| 17 | I eased out of the pockets and showed him my open , empty hands . |
| 18 | I found one of the drummers and let him have a tape and he loved it . |
| 19 | Or how they had inflicted cuts with a small sharp knife , then sprinkled salt into the wounds and kicked him round the room so he had to twist sharply and feel the pain of the salt crystals in the raw open flesh . |
| 20 | His cheerful London accent seemed to bring her back down to earth , and she hurried to unlock the bolts and let him into the hallway . |
| 21 | The castle 's black-cloaked seneschal had scowled darkly on the previous occasions when Quiss had tracked him down in the kitchens and asked him what was going on and what he intended to do about it ; he made dour excuses and talked of the corrosive effects of salt water and what a mess it made of his pipes and anyway materials were very hard to come by these days — What days ? |
| 22 | Its endemic pessimism had got him by the balls and left him beached and burned out by his late twenties , unemployed , unskilled and unloved by all but his widowed mother . |
| 23 | He comes to the door just like that ; no servants , no security phone , and that by itself gives you the green light ; you have n't the time for any finessing so you just kick him in the balls and follow him inside as he collapses , foetal on the floor . |
| 24 | Just before Jotan vanished completely into the mist , he walked softly out of the inlet between the buildings and followed him . |
| 25 | to restrict the buyer 's remedies ( e.g. to prevent him from rejecting the goods and to confine him to damages for breach of condition ) ; |
| 26 | She turned off the gas fire — must save the Calor gas ! — and the lights and followed him out onto the landing , locking the door behind her . |
| 27 | I always wrote the replies and told him the news and reassured him that Mum was watching his widow , which it gave her great pleasure to do . |
| 28 | The therapist 's role was then largely one of encouraging him to pursue tasks relevant to the problems and providing him with support while he was doing so . |
| 29 | It was the start of nearly 50 years hanging bells in churches across the country , so when the 6 at St Thomas 's in Oxford needed repairing , he told parishioners to ring the changes and let him install 4 extra ones . |
| 30 | Suddenly Swarf lunged forward , grabbed one of the khthons and strangled him . |