Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] him [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 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 | On each occasion , he became engaged in long disputes with local reporters , some of whom tried to jostle him out of the room . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | How much would Donald need to get him back on the road ? |
| 10 | I have worked for him for more than three years and have come to admire him both as a doctor and a man . |
| 11 | Bloomsbury House helped to get him off with a warning , but there was no further contact . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He wondered if they had come to take him away to a Home for ungrateful and unwanted children . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He conceded that it was hard on Alexander , and later came to respect him greatly for the way in which he gave Worrell his fullest support as vice-captain . |
| 19 | He handed over to poor Sir Alec Douglas-Home a party legacy of dwindling popularity , and although that amiable and resolute character fought with vigour and gallantry to maintain his position , the tide had sufficiently turned to abandon him gently on the beach , leaving Harold Wilson afloat in waters so shallow that the most gentle paddle hit the sand . |
| 20 | It is possible that he contributed to early issues of the newsbook , but there is no evidence that he was responsible for editing it , and nothing in his future career or conduct to link him directly with the Levellers . |
| 21 | It is simply going to drive him out of a livelihood , and increases the amount of consumer junk left around in lane and layby . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , do n't be ridiculous , Giles , calm down , calm down , come and have a nice Perrier water , ’ said Liz , taking his other arm , and , with Kate , attempting to lead him away from the fracas , as one would a child in a playground from its tormentor ( for Giles 's antagonist Paul Hargreaves , pale faced , dark suited , silver-grey tied , was smiling calmly with a horrible amusement at this distressing scene ) : but the desperate Giles was beyond leading , and fell back heavily as he attempted to disengage himself from his two intercessors , crashing into a large fern and some pots of bulbs and sending earth and splashes of champagne over the carpet . |
| 23 | We 're going to put him up for a few days . |
| 24 | In contrast to this emphasis of the New Testament writers , much of the stress on the Spirit today dishonours Jesus , tends to squeeze him out of the picture , and infers that allegiance to Jesus is only the lower reaches of the Christian life , the heights of which belong to the Holy Spirit . |
| 25 | He would have been happier if the Latin American had made at least a pretence at attempting to beat him down on the charter price . |
| 26 | So I hunted him and smashed his face , and I was going to take him back to the prison-ship , so that he would n't have the pleasure of being free , when the soldiers caught us . |
| 27 | He glanced right and saw another half-dozen Dragoons racing to cut him off from the cart track . |
| 28 | That you are going to bring him up in a … in a laboratory ? |
| 29 | Fully expecting to see him either in the saloon , or in the galley , she was surprised to find both empty . |
| 30 | He tried to ease his body to one side to let her come in but he was surprised once again as she got hold of his hand and began to pull him out of the bed . |