Example sentences of "[verb] he [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Send him away with a flea in his ear . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It crossed Cora-Beth 's mind that this girl 's feelings towards Harry might well change if she were to meet him again after an absence of two years , but she bit back her words , fearing that the suggestion , were she to make it , might put the idea into his head . |
| 4 | She invited him home for a coffee and he set about trying to find out what was wrong with her washing machine . |
| 5 | You invited him in for a glass of sherry to ask him if you could borrow his bicycle , and I came too . ’ |
| 6 | She thanked him and waited while David invited him in for a cup of tea . |
| 7 | Mercer drew him away to a comer , and slowly , haltingly , the general good humour resurfaced . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Someone close to Mr Mandela described him yesterday as a chess player five moves ahead of anyone else in the game . |
| 10 | So er I went down the Red Lion in Willenhall and fixed him up for a night 's dosh , did n't I , and the driver and then er I worked on , worked on and on and was able to get these er done for him to take back to fit this ship . |
| 11 | When he came out of hospital they fixed him up with a job in a parachute factory , but he 'd just finished the training period when the war ended , and they did n't think they 'd need so many parachutes for the next one . |
| 12 | ‘ I found him sometimes in a sort of energized depression ’ , said Shaffer . |
| 13 | The length of these umbilicals means that , in most cases , the tender can not tend the diver in the true sense , and may not be able to pull him back in an emergency . |
| 14 | You want to shake him off like a wasp on a sunny day . |
| 15 | But Kathleen Mary Butterfield lured him away with a bounce of her fat orange curls , and I found them roly-polying down the hill together behind the shrubbery . |
| 16 | Armed with this information , they would n't have picked him out on an identity parade . |
| 17 | In his summing-up , Mr Justice Leonard said the case against Kearney hinged on his identification by Mr Lewin , who had picked him out at an identity parade . |
| 18 | She regarded him steadily for a minute with eyes still bloodshot from crying . |
| 19 | Donna regarded him blankly for a moment , then nodded . |
| 20 | Scott regarded him impassively for a moment . |
| 21 | She regarded him thoughtfully for a moment or two . |
| 22 | I cleared the gun and fired at the Corporal , the burst hitting him in the chest and knocking him backwards into a line of sheets which he brought winding down around him . |
| 23 | James Shaw was given five years for his part in a later plot to kill Stephen Brown by knocking him down with a car . |
| 24 | My children have caught him lovingly in a nickname . |
| 25 | I had bought him a musical tie which woke him up from an afternoon nap when he rolled on to it . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Patrick was studying medicine , and it was her wish to set him up in a practice of his own one day . |
| 28 | I managed to heave Charlie into the main bar and prop him up against a wall . |
| 29 | Although this was an extremely delicate operation for Nizan to perform , given that in 1934 he had carried out the rather complex act of ideological rehabilitation designed to demonstrate that Gide 's intellectual itinerary was such as to lead him inevitably to a commitment to communism , he none the less succeeded in combining professional respect for Gide 's qualities as a writer with penetrating criticism of what he considered to be Gide 's superficial analysis and hasty dismissal of the Soviet state . |
| 30 | His platform photographs show him sometimes in a Blackshirt uniform like an army battledress , sometimes in a black suit buttoned tightly across his broad chest and a high-necked pullover , microphone clutched in his right hand , and left pushed into his jacket pocket . |