Example sentences of "his [noun pl] and [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another member of staff recognised the defendant from his schooldays and told him to give himself up . |
| 2 | She made him take tap classes to loosen his ankles and gave him daily exercises to do under her assistant 's instruction . |
| 3 | He looked at the Substitute who stuck the cigar between his teeth and handed him the sheet of paper saying : |
| 4 | Just in case Lord Milton failed to appreciate his value , MacLachlan stressed that he had been approached by the rival interest in the county and had been offered sufficient to make him easy for life , and accordingly implied that Milton had an obligation to aid him with his creditors and enable him to arrange further loans . |
| 5 | She wound her arms about his knees and dragged him laboriously across the gravel into the safe , thick grass ; his right cheek suffered , but he was hardly going to hold that against her if he survived . |
| 6 | He has lived in this pleasant suburb 45 years , entirely unaware that Kirk , Keef , Claptout and all of Led Zeppelin had been looking for him to apologise for stealing his songs and to pay him much-needed royalties . |
| 7 | She put her arm round his shoulders and hustled him out and upstairs before he recovered himself . |
| 8 | I took his shoulders and made him look at me . |
| 9 | Alan wrapped one of his cot blankets round his shoulders and took him to the kitchen to make a drink . |
| 10 | She came a step closer , rested her hands lightly on his shoulders and kissed him full on the mouth . |
| 11 | She seized his shoulders and shook him , hard . |
| 12 | He was very nearly as tall as her , but she put an arm under his shoulders and supported him to the untidy room which served as the stable office , calling to one of the stable girls to take over the class . |
| 13 | Piquet 's 200 mph crash nearly took off his legs and left him with a limp for life . |
| 14 | Simultaneously , she reached between his legs and jerked him off . |
| 15 | His hair , which he had cut himself in one of the gales of thrift that blew up in him every few weeks , kept getting into his eyes and caused him to see a charming rainbow when he stood under a street lamp to look up at Sam 's room — something he had done too often . |
| 16 | ‘ They do like this , ’ and he pulls his son 's woollen hat over his eyes and frisks him . |
| 17 | Seeing the first signs of salt water he was landed on by lots of flies which got into his eyes and irritated him more than the dust . |
| 18 | This man 's joy at his team 's win greatly tempered his reaction at being jabbed in the chest by a vigorous old Irish American , but even he had to retaliate when Uncle Mick pulled his cap down over his eyes and shoved him back in his seat . |
| 19 | In any case , how could she look into his eyes and convince him she would n't touch him with a ten-foot pole when every time he came within a few feet of her she quivered inside , remembering the fierce and all too brief pressure of his mouth on hers ? |
| 20 | She had become accustomed to his reveries and left him . |
| 21 | But a combination of factors , including a high proportion of broken or at least deteriorating homes and single-parent families , an absence of parent-child contact due to migration and possibly compounded by the necessity of devoting excessive time to earning a living and , as I will argue shortly , a distorted appreciation of the parent 's function vis-à-vis education crystallize to release the black youth from the influence of his parents and jettison him into a world in which his peers , with whom he shares the common experience of being black in a white society , are the dominant forces . |
| 22 | Although it struck him as being perfectly right and natural to tear a seven-year-old boy away from his parents and send him ‘ home ’ to be educated , it also struck him that the English public school system was iniquitous , a hotbed of beatings and buggery . |
| 23 | His long fever had peeled the flesh from his bones and left him half his proper bulk , and the brown of his cheeks was yellow and drawn . |
| 24 | Two other watchers take hold of him , lift him up to remove his shoes and thrust him into the dance . |
| 25 | By 8.45am I 've picked out his feet and brushed him off , mucked out , prepared hay , water and evening feed and left them ready . |
| 26 | Before he had fully recovered , Christian hauled him to his feet and dragged him away from his groaning adversary . |
| 27 | The second hit him in the right shoulder , the impact lifting him off his feet and sending him toppling towards the head of the stairs . |
| 28 | ‘ Alan 's tackle on Emyr Lewis at the start of the game , lifting him off his feet and sending him crashing down , was just what we needed to lift us ’ said Ruddock . |
| 29 | The door shot open , knocking Bill from his feet and sending him sprawling across the sidewalk . |
| 30 | It was Blackberry who bullied the stupefied Pipkin to his feet and forced him to limp the few yards to the gravel spit . |