Example sentences of "him [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gina had remained silent after Rune 's surprise announcement , allowing him to conduct her through the gates and across the road to the Mercedes . |
| 2 | Gina forced him to staple it to the living-room wall behind the settee and opposite the television . |
| 3 | It had indeed been , as it happened , impossible for him to see her at the times she suggested . |
| 4 | James V ordered that the Crown of Scotland be remodelled in time for him to wear it at the coronation of his second Queen , Mary of Guise-Lorraine , at Holyrood Abbey in February 1540 . |
| 5 | I might just as well ask him to drive me to the nearest station . |
| 6 | I saw him flush it down the toilet so that no-one will laugh at his spotty chest in the showers ! |
| 7 | The sculptor is encouraged to deepen the relief to make the figures stand out better ; and this in turn , making them more like statues , encourages him to treat them in the convention of free sculpture rather than that of drawing . |
| 8 | It was an unsecured loan … now they want him to secure it against the house . |
| 9 | It was an unsecured loan … now they want him to secure it against the house . |
| 10 | Then they formed up around him to escort him from the arena . |
| 11 | It never was when she invited him to meet her at the flat ; she was keeping him and Stock out of each other 's way . |
| 12 | ‘ But why did you ask him to meet you in the garden instead of in the house ? ’ |
| 13 | Would n't like him to catch me under the kissing bough . ’ |
| 14 | Examine a scene from the play where one boy creeps up on another and then springs on him stabbing him in the back with his knife . |
| 15 | However , she allowed him to squire her to the desk , without comment and with a straight face , told him the number of her key , though keys were almost an affectation at ‘ The Salmon 's Return ’ , more for ornament than use , and let him take it down for her and escort her to the foot of the oak staircase , which wound in slightly drunken lurches about a narrow well , the polished treads hollowed by centuries of use . |
| 16 | She would have to have a word with her father about this man and find out what on earth had inspired him to hire him in the first place . |
| 17 | He used to listen to American Football on the American Forces Network and was so enthused with it that he wrote to the American Embassy , who invited him to visit them for the day . |
| 18 | She wrote that she was dying of a fever , and asked him to visit her for the first and last time . |
| 19 | Numbly Rory allowed him to lead her to the dance floor , moving automatically into his arms as though she 'd always belonged there . |
| 20 | Rachel 's pulses thundered as she allowed him to lead her to the dance-floor beneath the flashing lights . |
| 21 | Rachel allowed him to lead her to the dance-floor , but his callous dismissal of the unfortunate Domino was symptomatic of the kind of man he was . |
| 22 | But still less did she want to make a scene or create any kind of curiosity amongst the people she had just left , so she allowed him to lead her from the room , saying , ‘ Yes , we needed to discuss those — er — charts , did n't we , Dr Russell ? ’ in case anyone was still listening . |
| 23 | She had expected him to lead her around the side of the house towards the gravelled front courtyard ; instead he headed in the opposite direction , down through the wide grass path into the garden itself . |
| 24 | May we allow Him to lead us into the unknown , may we draw our courage from Him and may we place our trust in His loving kindness . |
| 25 | You feel him imagining himself as the last rock of culture and civilization being swept over by a wave of barbarism and Jews ( communism and commercialism ) , the saviour of more than the Constitution , the saviour of all that has been culture , the snob of the West . |
| 26 | It protested at once , so she let him carry her to the living-room . |
| 27 | I guess he did n't trust us to let him do it from the nick . |
| 28 | She allowed him to corner her in the pantry . |
| 29 | True , the £1,000 belongs to the husband at law — there is no denying it ; but Equity will compel him to apply it for the wife 's benefit . |
| 30 | Where it did not , how far did it allow him to assert himself against the trustee and the property he had acquired in place of the object under trust ? |