Example sentences of "[verb] him [adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Rocastle got a page long interview expressing some puzzlement at Wilko keeping him out of the first team .
2 If she was n't , he slipped into her mind , the memory of her response to him both torment and humiliation , and dislodging him once he entered her thoughts proved far more difficult than keeping him out in the first place .
3 The Scot said : ‘ I was one punch away from knocking him out in the fifth and if I had n't been injured , I would have finished him . ’
4 And he blames AC Scotland for the sabotaging of his plans to raise a second round of finance by stockbrokers in Europe who let him down at the last minute .
5 We tied his arms behind his back and handed him over to the next village headman we encountered .
6 ‘ Rather than selling him , we are about to offer James a new and extended contract which will keep him here for the next two or three years . ’
7 Impulses of attraction towards beautiful forms or faces troubled him frequently for the next two years at Oxford .
8 And Steve obediently went off , taking with him a jar of Marmite in a garden trowel as a substitute for coal in a shovel , and he stood out there on the front porch in the cold listening to the silence and looking at the stars , waiting for them to let him in on the last stroke of Big Ben on the radio : a faint , feeble echo of some once meaningful ritual , though what it had meant or now could mean nobody there knew or had ever known .
9 For all that , had she been right just to abandon him pitilessly for the first dashing knight to Pass her way ?
10 I was lucky enough to knock him out in the first round .
11 I watched him carefully in the next few days .
12 Erlich heard his instructions to the lady who had brought him up to the third floor .
13 By the time that Lothar arrived in Paris , probably in the 1180s , perhaps earlier , the theology taught there was no longer the speculative , probing theology of Peter Abelard ( which was perhaps the reputation that had brought him there in the first place ) , but had become more concerned with practical issues and doctrine .
14 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 .
15 Hall faces a three-match ban , which would also rule him out of the third round FA Cup tie at Middlesbrough on January 3 , three days before the Selhurst Park showdown .
16 shrugging him close as a second skin
17 Studying him now , dispassionately , without the emotional blindness of the aftermath of her accident , or the initial shock of finding that he was last night 's rescuer , it was like seeing him properly for the first time …
18 He nearly rang Fred up , but he would be seeing him tomorrow at the first night .
19 She rode him out over the last furlong and finished some six lengths behind Shine On .
20 he played once more before the Lord 's show-piece and was called six times for throwing in the Hampshire match , but the selectors decided to risk him again in the second Test , where he was to meet his fate at the most famous ground in cricket .
21 This and his link with Stevenson 's had served him well over the last few years , and he had become something of an expert in railway funding , especially in European railways .
22 They struggled up the steps , through the entrance hall , rested in the main hall , then took him up to the first floor .
23 " I knew him briefly in the last days before the Rising , but I know of his work of course .
24 He looked at Mitch , studying him closely for the first time .
25 Horne should have increased Everton 's lead when Ebbrell 's ball put him through in the 62nd minute but he delayed too long .
26 If anybody put him off at the 17th it was me jumping up and down .
27 He finished on the rostrum in three of the first four GPs ( ignition failure put him out of the fourth ) and he beat John Kocinski in stunning style to win the fifth GP of the season at the Nurburgring .
28 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 .
29 I remember on one occasion the four of us went down to Glastonbury Fair where he sang , but due to a balls-up over the sound and the electricity , they did n't put him on until the next day and that was at about 5.00 in the morning when the sun came through .
30 Perhaps he thought that if he made a success of the concert party , word would get around amongst show business that here was someone to keep an eye on , and his big chance might come ; that someone important in the music world might come up to him with a contract in his hand and sign him up for the next ten years as a successor to Sir Malcolm Sargeant .
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