Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] him [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The postman eventually found him canvassing on the High Row and handed over the State secrets there and then ‘ I was very impressed , ’ says Fallon . |
| 2 | Surveying the results of her handiwork , she stayed only long enough to see him scrabble for the safety of the bank . |
| 3 | No employer will willingly train a craftsman only to see him go down the road to work for another employer who has invested nothing in training . |
| 4 | Keen mountaineer Thomas Hargreaves , 39 , left to go on a day 's hiking in an area frequented by grizzly bears last Thursday , but friends only reported him missing at the weekend . |
| 5 | That way if one of the midfield does do themselves a mischief Rocky will have had some games at least ( I 'd rest Strachan personally to keep him going for the League campaign — which IMO is our best chnace of a European place [ we 're too unlucky in the cups ] ) . |
| 6 | It only added to the team Renault-Williams ' total embarrassment at carelessly letting him go at the peak of his box office appeal and pulling power . |
| 7 | When the first contestant to go for the top prize , Marine Captain Richard MacCutchin who , oddly , specialized in haute cuisine , pulled it off by describing the ingredients of a royal banquet given by George VI to the president of France , three-quarters of American television sets were tuned in to watch him wrestle for the answers . |
| 8 | The Russians have said they believe in a negotiated settlement to the civil war , but they are continuing to supply arms to President Mengistu , apparently to allow him to negotiate from a position of strength . |
| 9 | South West appointed the finance director only to have him vetoed by the Government on the grounds that he was caught up in a Department of Trade and Industry investigation . |
| 10 | He brought you back here , and you stayed with him long enough to get him to part with the doge 's ring … ’ |
| 11 | The thought sobered Rory slightly , but not enough to stop him going for the gun . |
| 12 | If you kick a child all his schooldays , force him to labour sixteen hours a day seven days a week , yank out his teeth with forceps when they ache , bleed him when he is ill , beat him throughout his apprenticeship , starve him when he falls on bad times , and finally let him die in the workhouse when he ages prematurely , then you have educated a man , in the best way possible , to be indifferent . |
| 13 | ‘ Just imagine him standing by the side of you , with his hands crossed before him in a Miss Mollyish style , his intended bow half a courtsey , his fat arms and legs assisting , as in duty bound ; his side glances at you every ten seconds , while he softly , sweetly and insinuatingly informs you — that he has made the arts his peculiar study for the last eight years , and that he flatters himself , by his unremitting study he has greatly contributed to their improvement ; that he came to Ambleside for that purpose ( 't is a great big lie — he came solely to get a living for himself and family , but he is too proud to acknowledge this ) and hopes that the time has been employed with equal advantage to the arts and to himself . ’ |
| 14 | Amanullah 's pursuit of his two most cherished objectives , to modernize his country in the shortest possible time and to make it independent of Britain , soon brought him into headlong conflict with Humphrys , whose previous eighteen years in India , mostly among the tribes across the frontier from Afghanistan , had not prepared him to deal with a ruler of such independence of mind . |
| 15 | But Rostov 's experience of the Empire had not prepared him to find at the same time a complete absence of the poor and underprivileged . |
| 16 | This did not prevent him paying for the installation of a swimming pool to amuse his children who roamed around their new domain during the holidays . |
| 17 | Just stop him falling down the road . |
| 18 | ‘ Just watch him go in the 200 metres . |
| 19 | ‘ Your one-time intended 's folks , ’ she said — she did not see him wince at the Americanism ; she did not yet know him as well as Sally-Anne did . |
| 20 | The blow came at a meeting on Saturday when members voted not to let him stand as an election candidate — despite a recommendation to accept him by the executive committee . |
| 21 | How the hell can they say only when he fucking hear him coming down the stairs ! |
| 22 | It was no use arguing with Smith , he 'd just have him dropped from the team . |
| 23 | ‘ Never mind , Piper , get your kilt on and get over there fast , or you will soon hear him bellowing throughout the area. , |
| 24 | Giannis Tzortsos is a Jehovah 's Witness , whose religious beliefs do not permit him to serve in the armed forces in any capacity . |
| 25 | Quick thinking on the part of the father will soon have him sprinting after the runaway , and similarly quick thinking on the part of the camera operator will result in a cut from the distant child to one of the rescuer as he sets off . |
| 26 | When he had finished his chores he sat down at the table and copied out ‘ I am William Beech ’ over and over again until Tom , after much effort , finally persuaded him to go for a run and exercise Sammy . |
| 27 | Before the trial , the Sunday Times had just asked him to pose for the fashion pages of their magazine , wearing tough-guy togs . |
| 28 | She had not wanted him to respond with a show of good humour . |
| 29 | To Alex Harbury 's chagrin Riley would not let him work on the prison release dates story and sent him to interview a Girlie winner . |
| 30 | Boo does not conform to the community 's code because when he got into trouble at the age of 18 , his father , a very strict Baptist , undertook to punish his son himself , rather than let the law do it and for the rest of his life until he died , he kept his son away from the outside world and would not let him mix with the neighbours . |