Example sentences of "him as they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They bumped into him as they went back through the wire and held a whispered council of war . |
| 2 | May they go on and on telling about him as they pursue their course of action . |
| 3 | A buzz of wordless terror went up from the men around him as they craned over his shoulder to look . |
| 4 | Marler challenged him as they walked across the lobby . |
| 5 | ‘ It was a long time ago , ’ Roman said softly , slipping his arm round her waist and holding her against him as they walked . |
| 6 | He took her arm and she nestled against him as they walked back to the car . |
| 7 | The dwarf strained against him as they rolled and struggled in the mud . |
| 8 | ‘ They 'd care as little about him as they cared about the two bombers who died in the van . ’ |
| 9 | She had tried so hard not to like him as they shared a drink at the Crush Bar , especially after Daphne 's warning about his reputation . |
| 10 | He looked away as Stephen slid his arms around Christina , pulling her against him as they said goodbye . |
| 11 | He found the watchman asleep under a tree , his legs curled up under him as they had been when he had pantomimed the way he had found the body , his turban neatly parked beside him . |
| 12 | The others watched him as they played , Francie giving little grunts of encouragement , Aunt Margaret nodding her head . |
| 13 | This sound , tautening to the pitch of a screech , interrupted Davide 's growing up ; it had frightened children like him as they played in the streets , but sent a shiver through them that also excited them . |
| 14 | We chase them with him as they catch the wind like paper balls . |
| 15 | ‘ You still have n't told me about your adventure , ’ Cinzia reminded him as they waited for Palottino to arrive . |
| 16 | ‘ Is that it ? ’ she mouthed at Nils , ‘ accidentally ’ bumping into him as they fell , slower than gravity , down into the ferry . |
| 17 | She turned to look at him as they reached the park gates . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , that is what I feared , ’ she said , glancing up at him as they reached the table . |
| 19 | They did not see him as they came in . |
| 20 | Hyman hustled him into a car and , having come prepared with a flask , poured coffee into him as they drove to the studio . |
| 21 | It occurred to him as they drove that a particularly splendid piece of jewellery would n't suit her anyway . |
| 22 | She accepted his diagnosis without comment , following him back , content to sit beside him as they continued on their way through the pleasant countryside . |
| 23 | He turned and caught her looking at him as they strolled idly along by the whispering dark Mediterranean , and impulsively he stopped and pulled her into his arms for a quick hard hug . |
| 24 | When the Men came Woil would simper and whisper his pleasure and let them handle him as they liked as he said such things as : ‘ Nice Man , pleasant person . |
| 25 | ‘ This is n't for research , as such , ’ she told him as they moved along the rows of apparatus . |
| 26 | ‘ Nothing , ’ she replied , leaning heavily against him as they moved on . |
| 27 | ‘ Colder than this , ’ Schellenberg told him as they moved out through French windows and sat at a table on the pleasant terrace . |
| 28 | Jenna looked across at him as they sat with their coffee in the sitting-room that still bore the signs of her mother 's impeccable taste . |
| 29 | ‘ Because one thing 's for certain , Charlie Trumper , ’ she told him as they sat down in the little room at the back of Salmon 's to check the monthly accounts , ‘ you do n't know the first thing about butchery . |
| 30 | The Conventional Rules of Duty bound him as they bound his subjects . |