Example sentences of "[be] [verb] him [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No wonder they 're sending him over to the mad house for th ’ electric . ’ |
| 2 | You write to an imaginary friend , you 're inviting him down for the summer holidays and you say all that , all about the sort of things that you 're planning to do with them , make it up |
| 3 | He does n't talk to me much now because I 'm afraid I 've been the one who 's been tipping him out of the church when he 's smoking . |
| 4 | He nearly rang Fred up , but he would be seeing him tomorrow at the first night . |
| 5 | But they did n't appear to be causing him much in the way of alarm . |
| 6 | We 've got a very good set up erm my mechanic Mick Day is coming back again tomorrow ; I 'm picking him up from the airport , so that 'll be three years with him and erm I can rely on him to sort of get things ready and erm you know , we 've got a great set up and really I can just concentrate on trying to be erm world speedway champion this year . |
| 7 | I usually work him in for an hour , but when I 'm riding him around in the arena before the bell goes , I 'm still thinking , ‘ How on earth am I going to get this thing up the centre line ? ’ because he 's gawping at everything , but then I give him a jolly good boot and we get on with it … ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Poorboy ! 'said Charlotte , suddenly outraged by the weariness and exasperation of this ineffectual little man , worn out by a job he had probably chosen as the most profitable within his scope , and now found to be extending him far beyond the end of his tether . |
| 9 | ‘ We are taking him back to the institution . |
| 10 | I said I 'd been chasing him all over the world . |
| 11 | There had been no acquittal since they were taking him back to the prison . |
| 12 | They were all studiously avoiding meeting his gaze , though he thought they were watching him out of the sides of their eyes . |
| 13 | Sir Gregory , Amyas and two menservants were to take him down to the landing stage where a boat was waiting . |
| 14 | He looked up into her wide blue eyes which were scrutinising him intently over the mug of tea which she was holding with two hands . |
| 15 | I had been telling him so for the last few weeks . |
| 16 | Well , Marcus said he 'd come and see Pat , and Ludens is driving him down in the Bentley ! |
| 17 | The resident here has clamped his opponent and is lifting him away from the tunnel entrance . |
| 18 | And he goes she 's ke she 's beating him up under the chair she goes |
| 19 | All she really wanted was to see him out of the house . |
| 20 | She had him by the hand by then , and was drawing him in to the hearth , for the early November mist was on his shoulders , and his face looked thin and cold . |
| 21 | Nigel Powley ( 53 ) successfully defended his title , although William Speake ( 66 ) was catching him late in the race . |
| 22 | ‘ Then I shall get a train in the opposite direction , ’ he said , thinking that there was something sad about it , especially now that she was thanking him politely for the drinks . |
| 23 | It is not known who gave him the letter but it was to set him off on the road to fame and fortune . |
| 24 | She had not killed him , she was leading him away from the open mouth of the cave and towards the distant city . |
| 25 | But if Nicholas felt he had suffered at the hands of Celtic , then the suffering he experienced in London at the hands of the media was to force him out of the limelight and into a melancholic shell where scoring goals seemed harder than pulling Mother Theresa . |
| 26 | The only thing left to do was to get him in to the government hospital seventeen miles away , so we set out across the rice fields and village tracks , with the patient in a bullock cart . |
| 27 | The little boy 's father was lifting him out of the boat . |
| 28 | No doubt this ‘ concession ’ was to soften him up for the next examination . |