Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] him [adv] [prep] a " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | You want to shake him off like a wasp on a sunny day . |
| 4 | I have worked for him for more than three years and have come to admire him both as a doctor and a man . |
| 5 | Bloomsbury House helped to get him off with a warning , but there was no further contact . |
| 6 | He wondered if they had come to take him away to a Home for ungrateful and unwanted children . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It is simply going to drive him out of a livelihood , and increases the amount of consumer junk left around in lane and layby . |
| 11 | We 're going to put him up for a few days . |
| 12 | That you are going to bring him up in a … in a laboratory ? |
| 13 | He threatened to cut him off without a yuan if he did . ’ |
| 14 | When he stood in the middle of the road waving his arms it was only because he was hungry and wanted his dinner , now you 'll have to trundle him about in a wheelbarrow like a dead sheep , you 'll have no time for skirmishing . |
| 15 | Granville Again was out of form with a few niggling problems , so after talking to Michael I decided to let him down for a break then bring him back to his peak for one day — this day . ’ |
| 16 | But in 1132 he was back as chancellor , though he never aspired to the influence of his earlier days , and the more sober ecclesiastics of the court , in alliance with the papacy , managed to keep him out of a bishopric . |
| 17 | At last , with Greg 's help , they managed to get him on to a stretcher to which he was firmly secured with nylon strapping so that it was virtually impossible for him to move , then the stretcher was carefully lifted down from the jig and into the waiting ambulance . |
| 18 | If he loses he still wo n't quit but the FA could be forced to throw him overboard in a latter-day Boston tea party . |
| 19 | He neglected all his duties and so there was nothing for it , either we had to wipe him off as a son , which is an impossible thing for a parent to do , or we had to decide the only other course open to us which was to kidnap him and have him de-programmed . |
| 20 | Her husband became an alcoholic and they had to put him away in a clinic . ’ |
| 21 | She treated him as a malnourished curiosity , swooping down on him with tender cluckings , and seductive titbits — a crab claw , a lychee , a chocolate truffle — asking him to describe God , or Heaven , or sin , treating him as a confessional , trying to dress him up as a cardinal , showing him off to her friends . |
| 22 | She was still trying to get him off with a nice society type . |
| 23 | She could n't go out and play with the other kids , she had to take him round for a walk |
| 24 | Had to take him home in a taxi and we had to book out for him . |
| 25 | They rang room service , then she had to push him off like a young puppy . |
| 26 | Andy Roxburgh will check on Hendry before the World Cup qualifier with Portugal and is poised to bring him in for a match Scotland must now win . |
| 27 | Bjorn Kristensen is very much in Keegan 's plans but the Newcastle boss does n't want to rush him back after a season 's absence following a knee operation . |