Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] him [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Lance Buckmaster , our esteemed Minister for External Security has asked me to attend him down at the ancestral home , Tavey Grange on Dartmoor . ’
2 He wrote round to fifteen builders on 22nd March and , with what today would be regarded as incredible naïveté , asked them to meet him together at the Office of Works on 24th March .
3 There is nothing which can be guaranteed to alienate the affections of a statistician more than the surveyor who goes for advice after he has made a mess of sampling and needs someone to get him out of the mess .
4 So poor Willy was left in a situation where there was nobody to help him out with the f a full pool table for which he could n't get the key .
5 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 .
6 The oriental had released them from their cells a short time before , and ordered them to precede him down through an open trapdoor into a secret escape tunnel .
7 It needed some spark to concentrate his mind , something to take him out of the ruck .
8 Told me to keep him still for a couple of days . ’
9 She pulled herself together , swallowing hard , and forced herself to look him straight in the face .
10 It took four of them to lift him on to a trolley and take him away for observation , with the police riding shotgun at his side , and then things gradually returned to normal — or as normal as they could given the extraordinary circumstances .
11 It took all three of them to lift him out of the reeking waterlogged shelter through an opening just big enough for one of them at a time .
12 At the last he was in front , but he was dead tired and Winter could do nothing to hold him together for the final desperate few yards to the line .
13 It cost the poor milkman a fortune to get them to pay him up for the milk people said they did n't get , you know !
14 Brampton may have been a quiet man but I can not imagine him allowing anyone to hustle him upstairs in a house full of people , tie a noose round his neck and hang him .
15 Oddly enough the worst was his shoulder , where the man had seized it to pull him out of the car .
16 He rose to his feet , wiped his hands on his jeans , then beckoned them to follow him up to the house .
17 The person 's kept himself out of trouble so is it really right for us to get him back before the courts again ?
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