Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] him [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He moved incredibly slowly , zombie-ish , as if he 'd been a patient in there since before the flood and they 'd finally decided to let him out for some fresh air . |
| 2 | And , apparently , they 're going to set him up in some kind of arranged marriage . ’ |
| 3 | the guy in the car park when he forgot to ring him back about some important business . |
| 4 | He 'd beaten that habit out of her when she was a child , telling her he despised weakness in any form , and no child of his was going to show him up in public or private . |
| 5 | Its prime time is shortly before the 8 am news , but it decided to put him on at 8.20 am , when many listeners will be on their way to work . |
| 6 | so he said I 've had to , they 'd have to keep him in for ten days or more you know |
| 7 | Robert von Tonder , leader of the white separatist Boer-estaat Party , warned : ‘ Since De Klerk wo n't allow us an election to get him out democratically , we will have to get him out by other means . |
| 8 | Then he was offered a place on the Work Trial scheme — a local garage offered to try him out for three weeks , without obligation , while the Employment Service continued to pay his benefit . |
| 9 | She had been asked to pick him up at eight thirty a.m. outside his billet at a nearby farmhouse and drive him to Bovington Camp in Dorset . |
| 10 | Ashton had tried to see him out after that , and even wanted to shake hands with him , but Steven had spat at his feet and made a rude sign at him . |
| 11 | Reilly is confident that rest will cure Jonathan Davies 's persistent groin problem but must be concerned about Lucas 's broken wrist which threatens to keep him out of next month 's Cup final . |
| 12 | I saw the way you had to fight him off in that first dance — the bastard 's hands were everywhere ! ’ |
| 13 | Quinn said : ‘ Bobby Gould was prepared to take a gamble on me at Coventry , so I will be trying to pay him back for that by scoring even more goals . |
| 14 | The er other thing about our crew was that er one time there , I guess after was the only one that got back and they , they had to get him back on flying service . |
| 15 | I know that whether it was trying to dig him up for some doubles at Kyalami or just dropping in on him aboard the Queen Mary , I always called up first to make sure he was not otherwise engaged , and I can recall many times when James appeared at the track looking benign but far from fresh . |
| 16 | He had never been with a man who wanted to take him out at three in morning and stand him up against a wall in a dark street and jerk him off , not because there was nowhere else to go , but for the pleasure of doing it like that ; he had never done it again and again with one body . |
| 17 | It was partly for shame after all the talk and the things that the papers said , but as well as that they wanted to cut him off for good . ’ |