Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] him [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He fought their attempts to carry him out with the strength of one possessed . |
| 2 | But I have n't the heart to drive him back to the warren . |
| 3 | Sinn Fein failed in an attempt to co-opt him on to the council on Wednesday night . |
| 4 | Frank Howard , defending , said Millman had been drinking to celebrate his birthday and expected his girlfriend to drive him home at the end of the night . |
| 5 | This consisted of enrolling one 's child in a private playschool , which sent a car to pick him up in the morning and deposit him back on his own doorstep in the late afternoon . |
| 6 | Was it a two-way respect — had the two got their heads together and decided it might be beneficial to Travis to send him out of the country for a short while ? |
| 7 | The Haldane partisan , Morris , moreover , said openly that he defied Captain Cunningham and all his friends and supporters to remove him again from the town . |
| 8 | Adams benefited from the tailenders ' intention to belt him out of the ground , taking three of the last five wickets for final figures of four for 43 from 21.4 overs . |
| 9 | Theda opened her mouth to blister him out of the torment that consumed her … and paused , arrested by the look in his face . |
| 10 | If there was no work there , the tramping artisan was fed , given a bed for the night and a few pence to see him on to the next town on the official tramping route . |
| 11 | He asked the coach to fit him up with a pair of boxing gloves . |
| 12 | Despite great pressure to allow a rescue plan to airlift him back to a natural habitat in cold Arctic waters , the Turkish authorities decided to let Russian experts take charge of him . |
| 13 | I dashed out down the street to the pub to get him round to the cottage before Mr Vulcan changed his mind . |
| 14 | He also gives sanctuary to Tom Gradgrind , and arranges for Childers to see him safely aboard the ship that is to take him to foreign parts . |
| 15 | At a PEN Canada benefit event in Toronto last month , Salman Rushdie was cordially embraced by the Ontario Premier Bob Rae , the first government leader to meet him publicly since the Iranian fatwa . |
| 16 | The fascination of this book is in its clear-sighted debunking of the myths which many have fondly mistaken for historical truth : that Columbus was really aiming for Asia , that he and his sailors thought the world was flat , that Queen Isabella pawned her jewels to finance his trips and came down with her husband to wave him off from the docks , or even ( a fondly-cherished delusion ) that these were journeys of discovery rather than intentional acquisition and expansion of the Spanish empire . |
| 17 | Now it was drawing to its end she gathered the courage to look him straight in the face . |
| 18 | Even if it was n't quite enough finesse to keep him out of the loony bin . |
| 19 | But Mr Donnellan claimed they wanted him to admit a lesser charge to get him out of the college quietly . |
| 20 | Now my Lord the defendants say of course , that they were never asked by the plaintiff to get him out of the contract so that the duty er never arose . |
| 21 | The next day Creed asked Jed to drive him out to the Crumbles . |
| 22 | The elder of the two leaned down from the saddle to clap him amiably on the shoulder , and said a word or two in his ear , before they trotted away along the Foregate towards the Horse Fair . |
| 23 | This , of course , has provided an extra excuse for the highly protective Kinnocks to keep him out of the firing line . |
| 24 | Pat 's Jester 's defeat at Haydock yesterday has led Corals to take him out of the King George betting . |
| 25 | " Clearly , your son is guilty of trespass , and we should be within our rights to hand him over to the Justices , " Sir Gregory said , standing very straight-backed by the table , while Harry glowered at him from the hearth . |
| 26 | The Goblins wait until the enemy are close by , and then push the Fanatic out towards the foe , giving him a good shove to start him off in the right direction . |
| 27 | Junior wants granddaddy to carry him right to the car . ’ |
| 28 | I said that I thought it would be alright and made arrangements to meet him again at the church on the following Saturday afternoon to discuss details . |
| 29 | Patrick was studying medicine , and it was her wish to set him up in a practice of his own one day . |
| 30 | Let us all pray earnestly to God to guide him away from the swamp . ’ |