Example sentences of "him [vb infin] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To Warnie , he had written a letter fall of the gravest admonitions , designed to make him think carefully about what he was committing himself to . |
| 2 | It made him think again about contemporary language . |
| 3 | But the hostility on her face made him think twice about going any nearer . |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't I ? ’ he responded , and she saw him leer down at her , as he clutched at her . |
| 5 | That bit about throwing the stone up the alley to make him rush off after it , I got that from a detective story . |
| 6 | He 's probably got a private cache of cheap cider or meths hidden somewhere under a paving slab to help him nod off at nights , and a pile of newspapers to keep him warm . |
| 7 | He paused , and Isobel saw him glance up at Jean-Paul slyly . |
| 8 | But something made him glance up at the lounge window as he approached . |
| 9 | She tried surreptitiously to refasten them , to conceal the bare expanse of flesh with the ruff that lay open , and looked away when the movement made him glance round at her . |
| 10 | ‘ See him glance round like that ? |
| 11 | Jess , watching Midnight , saw him glance swiftly from one to another , his look cold , even scornful . |
| 12 | She felt him glance down at her . |
| 13 | She saw him glance down to where her cardboard tray had fallen |
| 14 | Charlotte saw him glance out through the window and clench his teeth before turning back to face Ursula . |
| 15 | She reached up , and kissing him fiercely on the lips , whispered a rhyme she had made up years before : " Tristram Pascoe , Tristram Pascoe , never , never let your lass go ! " — and when they had hugged , she watched him climb nimbly over the wall and heard him jump down into the hayfield on the other side . |
| 16 | AMERICAN Fred Couples is near to completing a scintillating year on the world golf tour which has seen him win close to £1m . |
| 17 | He wanted the youth to go away , for in his mind he saw him fall back with a suppressed scream of terror and pain , holding a handkerchief to his face . |
| 18 | This gesture obviously displeased Scout because she said ‘ Do n't you touch him ! ’ , kicked the man swiftly with a bare foot and was surprised to see him fall back in pain . |
| 19 | Something in her voice made him ease back on the throttle , decide not to pass the Renault Turbo lorry he 'd been stalking . |
| 20 | The loading had made him break out in a terrible sweat and perspiration ran down his forehead into his eyes . |
| 21 | Trevor has often wondered whether this made him grow up with silly fussy habits which irritated the girls with whom he would like to have been involved . |
| 22 | A short stab of icy wind made him huddle deeper into his cloak and he stirred to keep the hot blood flowing through his veins . |
| 23 | It made him feel more at home . |
| 24 | Watching this violation of the body 's orifices , preliminaries to the scientific brutality to follow , had always made him feel uncomfortably like a voyeur . |
| 25 | Mary Ann asked , still determined to make the traveller feel at home , though making him feel less at home with every enquiry . |
| 26 | The three answering apparitions make him feel safer with their answers of … and yet he decides to kill Macduff for safe measure but as Macduff has fled he decides to kill everyone linked with Macduff though they pose him no threat . |
| 27 | Second hurdle , managed it a bit better , gave him the signal three strides from the jump , felt him lift off at the right time , felt his assurance flow back and his faith in me revive , even if provisionally . |
| 28 | Dromore jockey John Reid who is having his best ever season was in a suitably bullish mood when I spoke to him about the remainder of the 1993 Flat racing year which has seen him head inexorably towards 100 winners for the first time in his career . |
| 29 | For the length of a heartbeat his tall figure remained stiff and unyielding , and then she heard him swear harshly under his breath , and felt his strong arms enfolding her trembling figure . |
| 30 | They could hear him speak unequivocally through his characters . |