Example sentences of "him [adv] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | She twined her arms so tightly round his neck that he almost choked , pulling him down so that he overbalanced and fell on top of her . |
| 2 | She hit him so savagely that a woman with a pram told her to calm down . |
| 3 | In one stride he was against her and he caught her to him so savagely that every bit of breath seemed to leave her body . |
| 4 | Richard was already a good shot , a patient fisherman and a brave , if occasionally reckless , rider , but competence in all these sports had come to him so easily that he had no interest in practising them . |
| 5 | He was unfastening the waist of his trousers now , having kicked shoes and socks under a chair , and in helpless fury she bent down to snatch the damp towel from the floor , wrenching it round herself and jumping down from the bed , glaring at him so ferociously that he suddenly burst out laughing . |
| 6 | He conquered him so completely that the man now housed him , clothed , fed and supported him and used every spare minute to coach and prepare him for some as yet unrevealed greatness . |
| 7 | He drew her against him so completely that shafts of sexual awareness pierced her and a blind hungry need made her cling to him . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , Paul is saying that Jesus ' death affected him so profoundly that by standing in his shadow he is forgiven and justified . |
| 9 | The mother-daughter relationship he had witnessed in London had moved him so profoundly that he had fallen in love with them both . |
| 10 | Carla put her arms round his waist , one hand lifted to clap his back , as a mother does to a child ; and held him so closely that the deep tremor of his sobbing ran through them both . |
| 11 | He knew that the animal would either kill Sir Henry or would hurt him so badly that it would be easy to complete the murder . ’ |
| 12 | She wanted to see him so badly that she felt physically bereft . |
| 13 | They knew him so well that everyone fell into a hush and appeared to move around him on tiptoes . |
| 14 | It has happened in France , Cameron felt like saying , and then the thought of the gulf between France and Scotland came over him so dauntingly that he suffered a backwash of despair . |
| 15 | These days she was glad of any invitation to proximity , and curled up beside him so promptly that he gave her an amused sidelong glance as he took her hand in his . |
| 16 | ‘ When you 're a bit stronger , I 'll drive you over there each time he calls me in , ’ he said , and Joanna looked at him so gratefully that tears burned at the back of Sophie 's eyes . |
| 17 | To his surprise , she did not reply but looked at him so vaguely that he inferred that she had not heard him . |
| 18 | By this finding himself relieved , he again resumed his studies until the hour of dinner , when the disorder again attacked him so violently that it produced a fainting fit , which held him till the evening ; he went soon after to bed , and passed a very uneasy , restless night . |
| 19 | He tried to move inside her , but she gripped him so tightly that there might have been a claw inside her vagina . |
| 20 | Anger was rippling through him so fiercely that his whole body seemed to be shivering uncontrollably . |
| 21 | ‘ He said he 'd read it somewhere a couple of years ago , and it had struck him so deeply that he could n't shake it from his mind . |
| 22 | THERE is nothing more humiliating than loving him so much that you forgive the infidelities . |
| 23 | I loved him so much that I knew it would be all right . |
| 24 | She loved him so much that it was painful to just stand there watching him , and her eyes filled with easy tears . |
| 25 | His choice had more than its share of steps and when he eventually arrived on a pleasant terrace overlooking the harbour , a pounding in his chest reminded him once more that he was middle-aged . |
| 26 | Marcus pulled Pat up by the shoulders , pulling him up so that his head was higher , and Moxie thrust the pillow in behind him . |
| 27 | She glanced irritably at the waiter , barely resisting the urge , it seemed , to hurry him up so that her companion could continue . |
| 28 | His palms were sweating , his forehead was wet and itching , he felt shivery , his voice was shaky and his heart was beating fast ; they were cooking , him with the Microwave Gun , bathing him in its evil radiations , heating him up so that he broke out in a lathering sweat and looked like a nervous kid . |
| 29 | She looked at them indulgently , saw at once that they were nothing notable , and said to him straight away that they would not do . |
| 30 | He 'd made her love him purely so that he could reject her in public . |