Example sentences of "him [prep] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Olazabal should have emulated him for in the afternoon he proceeded to miss a string of short putts .
2 The one they took him for in the end , she was eighty-five years old , and ailing , and he robbed her of her life-savings , and that was less than three hundred pounds .
3 through you see him as as the actor but to everybody else he 's like
4 We shall travel the world together as poor beggarly men carrying our message to the planet , and everywhere we shall be spurned and everywhere we shall be glorified , and a light shall shine about him like to the light which shone upon the day when he raised me from the dead .
5 I look at him with about the dirtiest look I can muster .
6 The first specks of light rain fell on Trent 's face as he looked up to see the motor yacht 's captain studying him from over the brilliantly-varnished taffrail .
7 ‘ Room service , ’ said the waiter , glancing down at the tip of the silencer he could see pointed at him from through the white cloth covering the lower part of the trolley .
8 If he can not stand , the patient might be transferred to his bed before being cleaned , but if he is using a commode , it is usually possible to clean him from under the commode seat , once the pan of the commode has been taken out of the way .
9 Immediately Tom dragged him from under the blanket and he began barking and chasing his tail .
10 The young woman peered at him from under the brim of her ancient straw hat .
11 Sometimes I bat at him from under the sheet , a cross between a pat and a push .
12 But even as he prayed he could hear the voice of William 's grandad berating him from under the lid of the closed coffin .
13 McAllister looked at him from under the long dark eyelashes which had won his heart from the very first moment when he had seen them , on his sofa , adorning the unconscious girl he had carried in from the street .
14 Quinn had watched him from across the street , tending his exterior fruit-display or disappearing inside to attend to a customer .
15 In fact we used to send him up something rotten , Angela Scoular and I. We 'd make funny faces at him from behind the camera , trying to make him corpse .
16 him from behind the bar , saying : ‘ I never want
17 As he walked up to the house his black bitch , Polly , joined him from behind the compost heap in which she had been happily rootling the past half-hour .
18 She stared at him from behind the barrier of her flowers , wordlessly holding out the paper-wrapped roses .
19 Then Izzie was calling him from behind the pageant .
20 The dark suited security guard glowered at him from within the bright interior of the shop .
21 Golden eyes looked at him from among the leaves of the yellow maple tree where Peach sat cleverly camouflaged .
22 Identifying him from among the helmeted figures strapped into the cars had proved impossible .
23 down the right flank , teasing the defender with , takes him on on the outside , pulls the cross back but he under-headed , it 's still Frank , with a cross , over 's head , still inside the danger area shoots and it 's saved by .
24 Er what do you call him across at the er
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