Example sentences of "him [adv] and [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She glared at him furiously and threw the bag on to the ground in uncaring fury . |
| 2 | When I reached Sid , someone had brought him down and extinguished the flames . |
| 3 | Giles thanked him warmly and pushed the map into his coat pocket . |
| 4 | His cord trousers are still rolled down round his ankles and get in the way and we have to stop and turn him over and pull the trousers back up , fastening them by one button . |
| 5 | Robert jumped to his feet , but she waved him aside and placed the tea and biscuits on a nearby table . |
| 6 | While Self knew that the pressures were great , and respected the engineers ' need to retain control of technical aspects of contracts and tender assessments , he also knew that the engineers were deliberately fending him off and impeding the agreement on procedures which he felt was essential for Central Authority financial control . |
| 7 | The proposal of the Leader of the Opposition to spend the money that is now spent on British farmers on farmers in southern Europe is something about which every farmer should know — unless the Opposition spokesman will advise him differently and tell the House when he has so advised him . |
| 8 | had to shake him up And make the fancy take him |
| 9 | ‘ His alibi fell through , so they picked him up and ran the DNA test , it 's another match , statistically it can happen . ’ |
| 10 | It was as if someone had wound him up and released the key , like the spring of a watch . |
| 11 | He picked him up and held the animal close . |
| 12 | Tom picked him up and watched the two boys disappear round the corner . |
| 13 | She picked him up and shook the poor child until he screamed . |
| 14 | She smiled at him cheerily and opened the gate as he got out of his car . |
| 15 | Miranda reached to peck him back and felt the smooth skin on his chin , smelled the lotion he used on his hair ( not bay rum , not like her father , but a sweeter perfume , limewater and rose ) . |
| 16 | Whitlock waited for the man to leave the warehouse before following him out and padlocking the chain . |
| 17 | One of the lads saw him there and stopped the line . |
| 18 | In recounting his hero 's feats of ratiocination ( a word he invented ) he had an anonymous , somewhat credulous , narrator following him everywhere and asking the sort of questions the reasonably intelligent reader might want to ask ; the original Watson . |