Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] him [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Responsible for giving trainer Grant Eden a broken heel after throwing him off on the gallops , Artistic Reef made up for it with a game neck victory over favourite Palacegate Episode . |
| 2 | The manager will play Ryan Giggs from the start after leaving him out of the first leg due to a mix-up over UEFA rules governing foreign and assimilated players . |
| 3 | The bell for Compline rang , the time she had set herself for hounding him out at the wicket , into a world he was , perhaps , already beginning to regret surrendering , but which he might have found none too hospitable to a runaway Benedictine novice . |
| 4 | The Englishman sensed that the big personal build-up was a blind to hide Muldoon 's real reason for wanting him out of the country . |
| 5 | I was at the time very concerned , because he was posted almost immediately to North Africa , and there was no chance of helping him forward in the early days of his Christian life . |
| 6 | Probably because it was a way of roping him in for the future , Malcolm invited him down to a few rehearsals . |
| 7 | The rewards of this parliamentary victory were to come with the defeat of the French armies in 1870 , but at the time opponents of the Emperor saw only a means of forcing him further along the path of change . |
| 8 | Naturally he wanted a top man to carry his bag , a man who knew St Andrews like the back of his hand — someone young and capable of clubbing him perfectly over the home of golf 's fickle links , no matter what the weather . |
| 9 | Yeah well we 've got a little antique box a jewellery box and it 's embossed the pattern round it , and the pattern round it is a boar hunt and it 's beautiful , there 's a little boar galloping his heart out with horsemen after him with spears and he 's all the way round the box and I thought of adding him on to the copper kettle you know as engraved all round the outside . |
| 10 | Meanwhile he had to tread very carefully , because if David suspected that his talk of cutting him out of the business was more than just talk , there was no telling how he would react . |
| 11 | I could name at least three of my friends who would have been prompt to offer this undeniably attractive young man a doss down on the sofa , and one of them who would have already been thinking of taking him upstairs for the night … |
| 12 | ‘ Bryan had an exceptional start to the season and that certainly was my reasoning behind bringing him back into the Turkey game , ’ said Taylor . |
| 13 | 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 … |
| 14 | He had then polished off Duncan 's leftovers before driving him on to the hotel . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | After that , it took the agents four days to extract a confession from their prisoner on the USS Butte before turning him over to the US Navy for the 13 hour 10 minute flight to Washington , a new solo record for a carrier-based aircraft carrying a second-hand car dealer . |
| 17 | If he became excitable , I advised they gently apply the brake on the lead and calm Moby down with quiet words and perhaps a short ‘ sit ’ , before leading him off toward the dog or person again , allowing Moby to become used to their presence . |
| 18 | In fact , it seems he had a stroke , but that the doctors were discouraged from treating him quickly by the Securitate . |
| 19 | Much credit is due to the quick thinking of his jockey John Buckingham riding in his first Grand National , in steering him over to the wide outside and popping him through a gap . |
| 20 | Moustaine walked through the ranks , stuck his fingers into Haines 's mouth and proceeded to pull out the half-chewed food , before hitting him hard in the solar plexus . |
| 21 | Mayli hesitated just briefly before shooting him twice through the chest . |
| 22 | He felt grateful to her for dragging him out of the pit and back into the daylight . |
| 23 | In spite of his explanations they 'd insisted on signing him out at the little cabin , and he 'd snatched the case out of his car and run back , wondering why it always rained . |
| 24 | Until that moment they were reconciled to leaving him behind for the proposed four-week tour . |
| 25 | Patricia was rowed for leaving him behind in the cinema . |
| 26 | And it was obvious why — pure unadulterated jealousy at meeting him again in the presence of the lovely Maria Luisa . |
| 27 | The president had silenced the vociferous strike-leader by bringing him on to the ruling body . |
| 28 | The Bible becomes his bastion against moral powerlessness , too , by reminding him constantly of the divine power that is available to overcome his weakness ( for " God is at work in you , both to will and to work for his good pleasure " ) . |
| 29 | The Army had taught him that , too , and the SAS acceptance tests had rammed the lesson home by sending him out over the damp Brecon Beacons with a 55-lb Bergen rucksack knowing he had to cover a certain distance in a certain time but not knowing that when he had done it , there would n't be the trucks they had promised but a vague assur-ance of a cup of tea if he kept on marching a few more miles in that direction . |
| 30 | Stanley 's family helped initially by taking him out to the pub , but he was worse on his return . |