Example sentences of "him [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike the previous soft glow , this new light had a sharpness about it , and it beckoned him upward like the guiding beam of a lighthouse in a dark stormy sea . |
| 2 | I sent him right in the opposite direction . |
| 3 | Chance also throws him together with the itinerant bible-selling woman who was outraged by the hooligans of ‘ our town ’ and whom Stepan now , just once , calls his ‘ saviour ’ ( spasitelnitsa ) . |
| 4 | He caught a glimpse of the fair hair and saw that she was talking to someone he recognised as the drummer from the band ; the whole group was there , giving an impromptu concert on tin whistles to the tired hikers sleeping on their rucksacks undaunted by the howl and shriek of the space-invader machines on the other side , a cacophony of mechanical rage that deafened him together with the thin notes of a rebel song . |
| 5 | At the last he was in front , but he was dead tired and Winter could do nothing to hold him together for the final desperate few yards to the line . |
| 6 | He had seen him only in the dense fog . |
| 7 | He carried him easily , placing him gently on the front seat of his car . |
| 8 | The Bible becomes his bastion against moral powerlessness , too , by reminding him constantly of the divine power that is available to overcome his weakness ( for " God is at work in you , both to will and to work for his good pleasure " ) . |
| 9 | The Labour party was changing too : Aneurin Bevan died at the age of 62 in July 1960 , and with him much of the reforming passion which had created the Welfare State . |
| 10 | Julie struck again , this time catching him just above the right eye , tearing the flesh . |
| 11 | But Fidway 's Cheltenham supporters can also claim a little bad luck — the winner Royal Gait bumped him just after the final flight . |
| 12 | ‘ I know what a hotel is , ’ she snapped , pulling him outside into the fresh air , ‘ but — ’ |
| 13 | She was breathless when she did catch up with him outside on the front doorstep . |
| 14 | They received him readily , and haled him away across the moist grass just touched in the hollows with rime . |
| 15 | Michael took the case from him and led him away to the hired car . |
| 16 | Interest to see how he plays David Lawrence when he gets his he 'll be , he can just slash him away on the off side . |
| 17 | He then spent three days at Fort King being questioned by people from the DIA , the FBI , the CIA and the DEA , and after that a bunch of US Marshals took him away into the Federal Witness Protection program . |
| 18 | Drag him away from the actual |
| 19 | I kept him away from the old man . |
| 20 | She had not killed him , she was leading him away from the open mouth of the cave and towards the distant city . |
| 21 | He grappled with Slatter , tearing him away from the motionless body . |
| 22 | His retirement took him away from the intense glare of publicity but he retained the admiration and affection of those who loved football — and those who knew little about the game but recognised a true gentleman and outstanding sportsman . |
| 23 | He hoped the Frenchmen would be content to drive him away from the high road rather than pursue and capture him , but as he quickened the mare 's pace , so the Frenchman spurred their own horses . |
| 24 | Rostov scanned the platform above for Alexei and saw him finally on the topmost section of the catwalk . |
| 25 | They believe that it is possible for man , and that it is indeed his highest intellectual and emotional task , to survey his own being , to call into the forefront of his mind every attitude and habit of mind , of emotion , of passion and feeling , to penetrate down beneath these superficial layers , to deeper and deeper and ever more tranquil , untroubled generalized forms of the self , until eventually you come within sight of some inner absolutely undisturbed pool which every person has within himself , and which if he finds it removes him finally from the distracting passions of ordinary life , and with this rider , that in proportion as you get there and find this thing , this true self within yourself , you find that it is n't just something subjective and peculiar to you , it is something identical with the world , so that in solving your own problems in one sense , you do it by transcending your ordinary nature . |
| 26 | Botham had the first six wickets before Marshall and Baptiste held him up for while , Marshall being lucky not to be on the wrong end of a legendary catch when Don Topley , a groundstaff boy who went on to play for Essex , brilliantly caught him one-handed on the square leg boundary , only to put one foot over the rope . |
| 27 | In the second stanza we find him still in the classical world , though this time it is the Greek rather than the Italian , and it begins by being the Greek seen not through the eyes of Frazer , but through the eyes of Keats . |
| 28 | Then he noticed that a boy , who had passed him a few minutes before , had returned , and was now looking at him carefully from the opposite side of the road . |
| 29 | She was attracted to him partly by the little-boy-lost quality which she now finds so infuriating . |
| 30 | They formed , in theory , a private army of his own , for though Louis XIV paid them they were organised into regiments under Irish officers , but William preferred to have them confronting him openly on the far side of the Channel rather than lurking , disaffected , in his rear on the other side of the Irish Sea . |