Example sentences of "him [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The media spotlight shone on him most harshly when he left Marillion . |
| 2 | When the teacher inhibits the child from pointing and pretends not to be able to see the picture , the child understands that the communicative situation has changed , that she can no longer rely on the shared visual context and she makes her reference explicit ( the teddy ) , locates him verbally rather than by pointing to him ( on the chair ) and makes explicit how the second picture differs from the first ( there ai n't no teddy ) . |
| 3 | Pat was with him the day a young woman approached him exceedingly politely while he was enjoying his veal — in one of his favourite Italian restaurants , Biagis , he would go for a filleted sole — and asked for his autograph . |
| 4 | How that happened was that Darren , the apple of her grandmotherly eye , was kicked out of the Rainbow Crche for spitting and language , so she dragged him all over till she found the butis . |
| 5 | It suited him less well than it had Zacharias . |
| 6 | AN old lag has vowed to go straight — because police treated him so kindly when he was banged up in their station . |
| 7 | She was watching him so intently as he bit into it that he began to wonder if Smallfry was right to fear she would poison him at the slightest opportunity . |
| 8 | Seldom before have England needed him so badly as they go into tomorrow 's third Test in Bombay already beaten 2-0 in the series by India . |
| 9 | She was great with him so long as he kept her occupied . |
| 10 | Joyce met his German contact in the Ministry of Propaganda , Christian Bauer , who was optimistic over finding employment for him so long as there was no war . |
| 11 | It is all so silly , and I would n't take him so seriously if it was n't for the fact that five years ago he had an affair and , yes , she had long hair . |
| 12 | Sien had ‘ that Dolorosa expression ’ which had affected him so deeply when he had seen it depicted in the picture Woman in Mourning . |
| 13 | as regards any duty or requirement imposed on his employer or any other person by or under any of the relevant statutory provisions , to co-operate with him so far as is necessary to enable that duty or requirement to be performed or complied with . |
| 14 | He certainly has a vision for the Burmese farmer , and I have never liked him so much as I did last night as we sat talking together under the stars . |
| 15 | You loved him so much when you were a little girl . |
| 16 | Would she have enjoyed him so much if she had thought the whole thing permanent ? she asked herself sternly now , sitting up in bed and shaking off the poppy and mandragora effect that thinking about that summer had on her . |
| 17 | Maggie was undressing him impatiently too although she had no real idea of what she was doing . |
| 18 | ‘ They knew him much better than I did . |
| 19 | We must now wait to discover how much Maynard relishes the captain 's job , coming to him much earlier than he can have imagined , and whether — as in the case of Morris back in 1989 — it affects his form and composure . |
| 20 | He had gone out for air while Mary reverted to her servant role , but an impulse had taken him much further than he anticipated and now that he was on the shoreline he knew that he had followed an instinct which was directing him to resolve this business with Mary . |
| 21 | The red-haired striker then saw the keeper make two good saves from him soon after as Coleraine threatened . |
| 22 | In response to a question put to him shortly afterwards as to how many participating countries he thought would be necessary to make the proposed structure viable , Schuman simply stated , ‘ if necessary , we shall go ahead with only two ’ . |
| 23 | The butler was arguing with a tall fair man , threatening to send for the footmen to turn him away physically if he persisted in demanding to see the person who was refusing access to everyone , and particularly to anyone answering to the name of Cochrane . |
| 24 | Well I 'll see him anyway definitely when he comes back . |
| 25 | It embarrassed him still more when she arrived dressed for bed herself as well , a complex bundle of diaphanous nightwear from the midst of which her poised cigarette arm stuck out oddly , like an awkward projection emrging from some ill-wrapped Christmas parcel . |
| 26 | He shook him more vigorously than before , this time by his cloak , and said boldly , " I have every right to one " ; adding , " Kiss me . " |
| 27 | This enables him to have a short ‘ breather ’ in preparation , and also draws the attention of the audience to him more surely when his solo arrives . |
| 28 | The Hebrew scriptures contained prescriptions that enforced a separateness and particularity of the Jewish people , in tension with the universalism of monotheistic belief : if there is but one God , he is Lord of all peoples , even if some of them feel after him more coherently than others . |
| 29 | This came out with more bravado than Sally-Anne really felt , and had she seen him more clearly before she intervened she might not have said anything at all . |
| 30 | Maggie saw him more clearly as he stepped forward . |