Example sentences of "him [adv] [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had a confused impression of coming into the dining room while the man was there and hearing him rather grudgingly assess the value of the glass cabinet . |
| 2 | Now you can assume that whoever put him in just made a mistake , or panicked , and could n't find enough bullets , or something , but the careful cutting out of all those clothes labels does n't look like panic , or making careless mistakes . |
| 3 | At no time should a true satyāgrahi or a brahmacārin seek to avoid the company of women , but whether this justifies him in openly seeking the company of women in order to prove the strength of his brahmacārya vow , as Gandhi himself occasionally did , is a highly debatable point . |
| 4 | The two storm-troopers who pinned him down now rubbed the salt all over his body , massaging it into his skin , tearing the cuts wider as they did so . |
| 5 | Francis believes he could become Alan Shearer 's partner in the England side , and rated him highly enough to agree a new , four-year contract in the summer worth £4,000 a week . |
| 6 | I urge him not merely to consider the matter but , because of the strength of feeling shown here , to take action as soon as possible , so that our hon. and learned Friend the Member for Leicester , West and his family will not have suffered in vain . |
| 7 | He is also writing to John McGregor , the Education Secretary , urging him not only to abandon the idea of additional CTCs but to hand over those in the pipeline to local authorities . |
| 8 | Once the individual begins to establish regularities , to generalise over experience , it becomes possible for him not only to recognise a particular experience as being one of a type , say a scolding or an interview , it also becomes possible to predict what is likely to happen , what are likely to be the relevant features of context , within a particular type of communicative event . |
| 9 | Delaney helped him through then took the lead . |
| 10 | 1421–2 finds him once more using a dialogue convention to describe his woes , and it is now evident that there have been serious developments in the interim . |
| 11 | He was closer to William Rogers , Nixon 's first secretary of state , then to Henry Kissinger , though the press showed him more frequently embracing the latter . |
| 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 | He 's dead , they all go over him fast then kill the bastard they go |
| 14 | He waited two minutes to focus his thoughts , threw back the duvet — its stale scent reminding him yet again to visit the launderette soon — and staggered into the bathroom . |
| 15 | Apparently preferring silence to chatter , in company he would let the froth bubble around him yet then produce a wry , always shrewd , comment . |
| 16 | The Foreign Office advised him very strongly to take no part in the transaction , but this was in fact an encouragement . |