Example sentences of "[verb] him [adv prt] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They bore him off to their favourite cafe . |
| 2 | You 're still a young man … well , youngish. ’ she said , trying to tease him out of his apparent lethargy and depression . |
| 3 | Felix had tracked him down through his old address and left a note . |
| 4 | well Clifford would always integrate him in with his own family |
| 5 | Breaking the three-generational run of Lester Knox Colemans , his sons , Joshua and Chad , were born on 16 September 1989 , at about the same time as the DIA decided to dust him off for his next assignment . |
| 6 | And at the same time the racing of her blood was only partly fear , and she could see that he knew it , that he had discovered this power and tuned it to performance pitch , that the insults were a kind of invitation , the display of force a plea turned upside down , and she also wanted , because she longed to please , to take off her clothes then and there and let him down from his prideful pose , and soothe him with her obedience to his rage . |
| 7 | NIGEL MANSELL confirmed last night that he is aware of moves to buy him out of his Indy Car racing contract and sensationally persuade him to stay in Formula One next year . |
| 8 | His own answer to it was in some ways remarkably similar to those he attacked , for it added up to this : historical study can not bring Jesus down to our own time ; rather , it reveals his strangeness to us , and he loses all colour and significance if we attempt to tear him out of his own historical and religious setting in late Judaism . |
| 9 | Obviously I could n't follow him up to his front door , but I saw him turn into the grounds . ’ |
| 10 | The fuckers could n't keep him out of his own country . |
| 11 | THE man responsible for uncovering South Africa 's hit-squad scandal , the condemned security branch policeman Almond Nofomela , is being brought to court tomorrow by the authorities who are seemingly intent on hurrying him on to his postponed appointment with the hangman . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , I rushed him back to our nearby hotel , where I cleaned the wounds and fixed three or four large Band-Aids on them . |
| 13 | He gathered a chestful of air to shout at Fiona — dozy bitch had locked him out of his own fucking castle , his own bedroom — but then thought of the children . |
| 14 | THE CRYING GAME Irish director Neil Jordan 's latest film takes him back to his best territory , the shadowy world of terrorism , crime and sexual deviance . |
| 15 | It felt too much as if she was shunting him off for her own convenience , even though she knew that it was the only sane and sensible thing to do . |
| 16 | He seemed to know so much about fighting that I was very surprised when I knocked him down with my first hit , and then again with my second . |
| 17 | If you have between you driven him back to his old ways , your souls will bear a heavy charge on the Day of Judgement ! ’ |
| 18 | If he was incapable and vomiting and so on , you 'd take him in for his own consideration . |
| 19 | Fending him off with his left arm Chief Fyvie knocked the man down with a tremendous blow of his right fist . |
| 20 | Benn was eager to get the taste of American boxing before he met Watson and the urge to find new experience brought the break , sad but needed , from the trainer who had brought him through from his amateur days , Brian Lynch . |
| 21 | Benn was eager to get the taste of American boxing before he met Watson and the urge to find new experience brought the break , sad but needed , from the trainer who had brought him through from his amateur days , Brian Lynch . |
| 22 | Many persons will have their own particular reasons for gratitude to him , and everyone will so warmly want to wish him well for the new place in life which awaits him back in his own native diocese of Liverpool . |
| 23 | The intellectual domination and the emotional charge which carried it rapidly whipped him out of his old ways . |
| 24 | It is this mixture of compliance and argumentativeness which not only bores and irritates Belville but actually drives him back to his old pursuits — drinking and lechery . |
| 25 | Weller plays the Burroughs character , a roach-exterminator whose wife , played by Judy Davis , turns him on to his own insecticide . |
| 26 | He began to take her to antique shops , sought out trade exhibitions of fabrics and contemporary furniture , bought her books on design — on Bauhaus , which brought him back to his own youth , on the Viennese Secession with its decorative flights and insistence on utility . |
| 27 | Palmer now thought about testing the idea , and this brought him back to his original thoughts about the helium . |
| 28 | He had told them many a fairy story and when they checked , they returned more furious than before , dragging him out of his dirty , fetid pit back into the great vaulted torture chamber to be questioned once again . |
| 29 | They took him back to his own house and shut him upstairs while they sat below and deliberated what to do with him . |
| 30 | ‘ I wanted to look pale and interesting and bowl him over with my sparkling wit ! ’ |