Example sentences of "and [v-ing] him [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He refused to talk about his businesswoman wife who often followed his rounds wearing bright , tight dresses and cheering him on at every green . |
| 2 | I cleared the gun and fired at the Corporal , the burst hitting him in the chest and knocking him backwards into a line of sheets which he brought winding down around him . |
| 3 | He came up off the floor in one swift , powerful lunge , slamming the full force of his body into Boisson and driving him back towards the dungeon before the man could gather himself for another swing . |
| 4 | To which and looking him straight in the face , she had answered , ‘ Do n't count on it , ever . ’ |
| 5 | He reads : ’ Not that way , ’ cried his pessimistic friend grasping Toad 's arm and directing him away from the especially grim and oppressive corridor into which his laboured steps seemed automatically to have led him |
| 6 | " But I mind , I mind very much ! " he snapped , and walked with quick , short steps back to Fernando , taking his arm and leading him off into the crowd . |
| 7 | It 's because you love him that you feel like killing him and wiping him out of your life . |
| 8 | She intended to plead her own nervousness and her desire not to be destined for public exhibition and planned to finish by thanking him for the compliment of his request and wishing him well in finding a more practised model . |
| 9 | She reached up , and kissing him fiercely on the lips , whispered a rhyme she had made up years before : " Tristram Pascoe , Tristram Pascoe , never , never let your lass go ! " — and when they had hugged , she watched him climb nimbly over the wall and heard him jump down into the hayfield on the other side . |
| 10 | These included tying lots of cushions to the Goblin , making parachutes , and kitting him out with wings . |
| 11 | The next he knew , Lucie was dragging him to his feet by his hair and hauling him impatiently towards the kitchen wagon . |
| 12 | He leaned down and took Piper by the shirtfront , hauling him upright then turning the man and running him backwards across the room . |
| 13 | Of course Alison was not ‘ living in ’ the house , but was often there visiting Patrick ( her help as a nurse was no longer required ) , joining Jack in his studio ( where she talked with him about his work ) , or chatting with him and Franca in the drawing room or kitchen before departing with Jack to a restaurant and taking him on to her flat for the night . |
| 14 | One of them proposed arresting him as he lay on his bed and taking him off to prison with all the bedclothes . |
| 15 | Some of the near contemporary songs which have survived from the period describe Rodrigo himself as capturing Garcia and handing him over to the brothers . |
| 16 | As he tried in vain to jerk his head away to one side , shouting in fear , the taut rope caught him across the throat , cutting off the sound of his voice and throwing him backwards off his horse . |
| 17 | ‘ Ah , no ! ’ said Isambard , discerning his flight and plucking him back to earth . |
| 18 | They only person in the play to whom he reveals some of his real feelings is Roderigo , but only while using him as a tool , spending his money , and working him up to be the accomplice in his attack on Othello . |
| 19 | Last of his stick to leave the C130 , Grant 's rate of descent was half again as fast as the rest , taking him past the others , and plummeting him down in a whirling corkscrew . |