Example sentences of "him [coord] [adv] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | The issue for the court to decide is whether or not the constable is doing anything that constitutes a prima facie interference with the person 's liberty , person or property , as by detaining him , searching him or otherwise touching him , or constraining his behaviour in some other way . |
| 2 | Keegan 's not wrong to sell because you either do one of two things with this type of striker , build a side around him or just sit him on the bench for use in emergencies . |
| 3 | Hasso had mixed fortunes in the ring : the judges either liked him or totally ignored him . |
| 4 | Those who met him or merely saw him on BBC 's What 's My Secret ( he had burnt £100 million ) would have seen that straight away . |
| 5 | Dropping the bedding in her arms she held on to him and probably prevented him falling from the narrow landing down the stairway . |
| 6 | He was moved and promising miracles , the recovery of things lost , the wholeness and holiness of things profaned ; but the faith she had professed was perhaps no more than a conviction that the star of the Prince of Aberffraw would not fail him , and that God would humour him and not cheat him of the fulfilment of his vow . |
| 7 | If we come in , you ought to be kind to him and not ask him to sacrifice his health by taking office . " |
| 8 | The hot sting of tears pricked painfully at her eyes as the agony of hating him and yet wanting him so desperately all at the same time overwhelmed her . |
| 9 | At last he saw him and ran to meet him and joyfully welcomed him . |
| 10 | Johnson questioned the clergyman closely — then , first disagreed with him and finally trumped him . |
| 11 | He ran to the open door to catch up with her when , suddenly , a man wearing a hood over his head pushed past him and nearly knocked him over . |
| 12 | His mother generally runs after him and eventually gets him to sit in front of the TV with a snack in his hand . |
| 13 | When Hoare had decided on resignation , Baldwin himself ( accompanied by Eden ) went to see him and amiably asked him how he felt . |
| 14 | She liked him and deeply respected him for that . |
| 15 | I will seek him and privily relieve him ; go you and maintain talk with the Duke , that my charity be not of him perceiv 'd ’ ( III.iii. 14ff . ) . |
| 16 | seeing him and then seeing him on that |
| 17 | This culminated , in 1954 , with the episode which sent a delicious frisson around the English art Establishment and made Rothenstein 's popular reputation : going around the Diaghilev exhibition , he ran into Cooper , who started insulting him and then punched him . |
| 18 | If , and to my mind it 's a colossal if , if she managed to seduce him and then told him he was the father-to-be , and if he believed it , it would have been more his style to pack her off home to her parents and provide for her . |
| 19 | Instead , 18-year-old Lee 's parents had to drive from their Middlesbrough home to collect him and then take him to the town 's General Hospital , where the next day doctors gave him just six hours to live . |
| 20 | She 'd used him and then abandoned him , and yet still he 'd continued to protect her . |
| 21 | They were thought to have been used in the death of Inspector Drewitt , firstly to shoot him and then to batter him . |
| 22 | He shouted angrily in a voice that sounded American , but the hijacker hit him and then pushed him to the front of the plane with his machine gun . |
| 23 | He grabbed a protester by the neck , hauled him to his feet , shook him and then pushed him away . |
| 24 | She looks towards Herakles , right hand out , originally with a spear to direct him and perhaps lend him divine power as he thrusts with a crowbar to open a way for the Alpheus to flood the stables . |
| 25 | I never saw him again but to this day I wish I could take him to Ibrox and watch the Rangers with him and maybe buy him a half and half pint at one of the Govan pubs . |
| 26 | MGM were prepared to make the film as a star vehicle for him and originally offered him the role of Captain Bligh . |
| 27 | As the friendship between father and youth developed , Helen frequently ran from the kitchen to open the door to him and occasionally saw him out . |
| 28 | ‘ I have heard of him but never met him . ’ |