Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , although he had recently been known to talk to an invisible giant white rabbit and peek at his neighbours through binoculars , neither of these traits were deemed enough to blacken him in the eyes of the electors . |
| 2 | ‘ Well then , you had better have one , ’ said Diana , and bent down to kiss him on the cheek . |
| 3 | Although he is happy with his lifestyle and a wages and bonuses package which earns him £30,000 a week , Walker 's evasive attitude and reluctance to project himself through the media has not endeared him to the locals . |
| 4 | Jazzbeaux tried not to look him in the eye . |
| 5 | ‘ God has already shown him by the lightnings what I do think he already knew in his heart . |
| 6 | Alex Household drew aside to let him into the flat . |
| 7 | If that decision has now put him in the casualty ward , it has equally kept him from the sanatorium . |
| 8 | If that decision has now put him in the casualty ward , it has equally kept him from the sanatorium . |
| 9 | We 'd just settled him along the back seat when I realised that he would need some money . |
| 10 | The little man stood up and came over to join him at the fire . |
| 11 | The first Sara had known of Adam 's injury was when she had turned up to collect him at the school gate . |
| 12 | There 's a nurse is in bed and the next thing the nurse wakes up to find him at the bottom of the bed . |
| 13 | By the time he had staggered into the yard he could hardly stand up , hitting the ancient , mossy mounting block and tripping over one of the green tubs filled with white geraniums , as Little Chef came bounding out to lick him on the nose . |
| 14 | ‘ I wish I 'd never employed him in the first place ! ’ |
| 15 | The musical setting is carefully selected too to remove him from the tawdry everyday fray of the pop marketplace : violas , accordions , pennywhistles and assorted kitchen utensils conjure up the timeless integrity of Irish folk music ( or ‘ roots ’ in 1990-speak ) . |
| 16 | Yesterday , her other son , Gary , 3 , was at home because she has decided never to bring him to the Strand again . |
| 17 | Well the reason they caught him was cos they 've got just flashed him through the computers as and find out what anyway , put it down they then turn round say oh well , you know whatever they 're |
| 18 | Almost every afternoon when Charlie was at school he turned up to take him to the studio to rehearse with his band . |
| 19 | He passes by on the other side of the road and once he 's well past I pop up to watch him through the rear window . |
| 20 | as if sensing that she had given up fighting him for the present , fitzAlan released her immediately , frowning down at her distraught face . |
| 21 | ‘ Too refined , ’ Julia explained didactically and pressed on to introduce him to the black and white humbug types labelled British Alpines , standing next to the skewbald variety called British Toggenbergs . |
| 22 | She returned his kiss , but declined firmly to join him at the Allied Steelmakers ' annual dinner ( carriages eleven-thirty ) , saying she would actually rather go to the cinema with a girlfriend , and tripped out of the office looking considerably less harassed than when she had arrived . |
| 23 | ‘ You look frozen , ’ she exclaimed , stepping back to let him into the hall . |
| 24 | Unfortunately when we went into the shop to buy his gift we met a couple of his ex-girlfriends who insisted on coming along to remind him of the girls he is leaving behind , and to present him with a small , but wonderfully-packaged gift , a token of our friendship . |
| 25 | From that time on he improved in leaps and bounds and eventually , after about seven months , I started gingerly walking him around the small paddock next to his box with a bridle and a lunge rein threaded through his bit and over his head . |
| 26 | French superstar Zafonic was pulled out of the St James 's Palace Stakes when owner Prince Khalid Abdulla decided not to risk him on the rain-softened surface . |
| 27 | Todger practically had him by the throat . |
| 28 | C founds not upon the wrong , if any , done to B but on the fact that A has set out to injure him by the use of an unlawful weapon : |
| 29 | You see , he knew if they had taken him in and it was proved he had been using her , or , as a little bird told me , he had got her ready for shipment , they would have surely sent him along the line this time , and stripped the house of all his fine pieces . |
| 30 | Nothing could have quicker distanced him from the Pommie chairman or won him their attention so soon . |