Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] him [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | However , after a lively meeting with directors , Reg was persuaded to carry on as coach by three men in a hearse who asked to meet him outside during a beer break . |
| 2 | And , no doubt , if ever John Hall discovers the identity of the anonymous benefactor who spilt the beans , he will want to shake him warmly by the hand and offer him thanks on behalf of his club and the good of all in English rugby . |
| 3 | She tried to see him dispassionately as a grey-haired solicitor rather too well endowed with easy charm ; indeed , she saw him thus , but she also saw him otherwise , and could not help herself . |
| 4 | You want to shake him off like a wasp on a sunny day . |
| 5 | The Democratic leadership in Congress has pushed him hard on the issue . |
| 6 | Overlooking the causal nature of meaning with respect to usage leads here to obvious circularity within the formal framework however : to is first defined as necessary to support a clausal complement with no discussion of the data which contradict this postulate ( cf She helped lift him out of the bed ; You 've missed things . |
| 7 | On each occasion , he became engaged in long disputes with local reporters , some of whom tried to jostle him out of the room . |
| 8 | Jim tried coaxing him away with a glass of brandy , which Albert thought a low device . |
| 9 | because he lives a life where material luxury has bought him out of the social expectations imposed on less fortunate people . |
| 10 | ‘ How did that kind of line get him on to the insulin project ? ’ |
| 11 | When Swan heard that Harvey was at the Ministry of Transport , he tried to draw him out on the subject of motorways in Warwickshire , but the junior Minister in charge of roads said that this was not the time or place to discuss the subject . |
| 12 | Either the man she is with is not ready for a long-term commitment , he may be violent and she wants to keep him away from the child . |
| 13 | And Sand Table gives every indication that his trainer has laid him out with the Royal Hunt Cup in mind . |
| 14 | And Sand Table gives every indication that his trainer has laid him out with the Royal Hunt Cup in mind . |
| 15 | Half-blinded by blood from his cuts , he put the plane into a dive and somehow managed to land the right side up — despite the appearance of a third enemy plane which tried to polish him off on the way down . |
| 16 | GOALKEEPER Stephen Pears goes into hospital tomorrow for an operation on a cheekbone injury that has ruled him out of an international debut next week . |
| 17 | How much would Donald need to get him back on the road ? |
| 18 | I have worked for him for more than three years and have come to admire him both as a doctor and a man . |
| 19 | Royal Cedar , trained by John McConnochie , who has taken him over from the now retired Mercy Rimell , is another who is perfectly at home on fast ground , winning here over three and a half miles and at Newbury this season . |
| 20 | Royal Cedar , trained by John McConnochie , who has taken him over from the now retired Mercy Rimell , is another who is perfectly at home on fast ground , winning here over three and a half miles and at Newbury this season . |
| 21 | Bloomsbury House helped to get him off with a warning , but there was no further contact . |
| 22 | Romany King has done nothing this year but the fact that he ran so well last time at Aintree has kept him short in the market . |
| 23 | Sitting around in the sun all day , scoffing tons of ice cream is his idea of heaven , though he did get a bit miffed when Greenpeace tried to push him back into the sea . |
| 24 | He wondered if they had come to take him away to a Home for ungrateful and unwanted children . |
| 25 | A spearman tried to bring him down with a lance thrust under the cuirass whilst another took a swing with a sword at the joints in the greaves on his legs . |
| 26 | A spokeswoman for French TV station TF1 who screened the show , said last night : ‘ Eric is very close to his grandmother , who helped to bring him up as a child . |
| 27 | His petty-bourgeois family background , his status as an intellectual conversant with the rites of bourgeois education , values and culture , his sophisticated literary and critical talents as a writer , all conspired to set him apart from the communist party leadership and rank and file members alike . |
| 28 | No he said , and I went over and I picked him up anyway , and sat him on , I sat him on my knee and I said we 'll just do some rhymes and I could feel him sort of going mm , mm , mm , like they do all pathetic and whiny , anyway Phyllis arrived and afterwards it was , by then he had calmed down and he was fine and I said wan na read the story now cos he missed it of course when he decided he could n't do without his car , so I said next week perhaps come without your car , I think I 'd won him over by the end but , it was a bit hairy . |
| 29 | When an attempt is made to set him up as a Saint , it is scarcely possible for any man of good sense who knows the history of his times to preserve his gravity . |
| 30 | ‘ I had known David for quite a long time ; we come from Cambridge and I knew him vaguely in the early days — I remember when he joined the Floyd in fact — and I 'd seen him socially over the years . |