Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] him [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard 's achievement of the throne necessarily brings him out into the open , where fraud and concealment are of no use and force alone can preserve him . |
| 2 | Mr Cheney promptly slapped him down for speaking out of turn , which had more to do with Pentagon power play than strategy . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Mr Rampton asked : ‘ Suppose you had somebody in your hands who had behaved badly … is it in those circumstances right to hand him back to somebody who would treat him with equal brutality ? ’ |
| 5 | Theodora gently steered him back to the house and set him in a deckchair on the south-facing terrace . |
| 6 | In the latest they were called to the home of a man in his early 20s in Frenchgate , Richmond , but found they needed more equipment so took him back to the Richmond Fire Station and released the cuffs with a hacksaw and vice . |
| 7 | But the gentler Glackens agreed to consult and Barnes forthwith packed him off to Europe , $20,000 in hand , to buy pictures for him . |
| 8 | Swing , he screamed at himself as his arms crashed into the pine , not holding , but the weight of his body already carrying him on in the next arc of his trajectory . |
| 9 | Tom kept more erratic hours and the nature of his job often took him out of the office . |
| 10 | Murder of Duncan briefly shocks him back into some half-remembered humane responses , though these quickly dwindle again in renewed surfeits of horror . |
| 11 | Alexandra now lifted him on to her lap , where he immediately settled , plugged his thumb into his mouth and gazed pityingly down at his brothers and sister . |
| 12 | She pushed the Beretta into her anorak pocket then rolled him on to his back and pulled off his black balaclava . |
| 13 | Sara seldom saw him off to work . |
| 14 | Thatcher reportedly singled him out for promotion when he was honest enough to tell her that backbenchers were uneasy about the state of the economy : like the young George Washington , he trembled , but could not tell a lie . |
| 15 | Lack of success then drove him back to Spain , where his best work was painted at Ronda in Andalusia . |
| 16 | While he was there he learnt to fly with the University Air Squadron and was in despair when , on the outbreak of war , the RAF initially turned him down on medical grounds . |
| 17 | This strategy marks a structure of repetition in Sartre 's text : each time he poses the question of how there can be totalization of History without a totalizer , he retreats to a more limited example whose unity is already evident , but which in the end only brings him back to the original question again . |
| 18 | Phil Larder will be watching his fiery young star carefully to keep him out of trouble |
| 19 | The agency now wanted him back in Lebanon for two reasons . |
| 20 | Mum went over to him and delivered a hard slap then ordered him off to bed . |
| 21 | Though the Doctor was first out , looking around in calm appraisal , Clairvius Dubois almost knocked him down in his surprisingly sprightly enthusiasm to see what Mait 's home was actually like . |
| 22 | The men then eased him down by taking much of his weight on the rope . |
| 23 | NORTHERN Ireland Minister Michael Mates was placed on probation last night after John Major publicly slapped him down in front of MPs . |
| 24 | Worse still , an injury kept Sure Sharp idle for the rest of his second season and it was only last year that Hills eventually got him back into action . |
| 25 | Iago soon brings him back to the ‘ foul ’ image : ‘ I will chop her into messes — cuckold me ! ’ |
| 26 | He pleaded with his colleagues not to push him out of office . |
| 27 | His manner is the epitome of Ivy League rectitude : one of Boyd 's friends told me that the producer once ticked him off for breaching etiquette on opening a car door for a lady . |
| 28 | His mother then took him back with her to Germany , where she later remarried . |
| 29 | Its headline put the wealthy benefactor " in " the Scott affair , and the copy never got him out of it . |