Example sentences of "[to-vb] he [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said that I thought it would be alright and made arrangements to meet him again at the church on the following Saturday afternoon to discuss details . |
| 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 | And , no doubt , if ever John Hall discovers the identity of the anonymous benefactor who spilt the beans , he will want to shake him warmly by the hand and offer him thanks on behalf of his club and the good of all in English rugby . |
| 4 | Jezrael lashed a hand out to punch him hard on the jaw . |
| 5 | Though it was n't a difficult test , it was sufficient to distract him temporarily from the fear . |
| 6 | And though you might not intend to sell him again at the moment , circumstances can change : a horse with a stable vice is always harder to sell than one without , unless he is so fantastically talented that his behaviour can be ignored . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , do n't be ridiculous , Giles , calm down , calm down , come and have a nice Perrier water , ’ said Liz , taking his other arm , and , with Kate , attempting to lead him away from the fracas , as one would a child in a playground from its tormentor ( for Giles 's antagonist Paul Hargreaves , pale faced , dark suited , silver-grey tied , was smiling calmly with a horrible amusement at this distressing scene ) : but the desperate Giles was beyond leading , and fell back heavily as he attempted to disengage himself from his two intercessors , crashing into a large fern and some pots of bulbs and sending earth and splashes of champagne over the carpet . |
| 8 | These medical investigations hardly ever revealed any physical or mental abnormality and if the bed-wetter continued thereafter to deplete the quartermaster 's stock of blankets then the British Army had no answer to this situation other than to discharge him honourably from the service without a stain on his character , whatever there might be on his bedclothes . |
| 9 | His head had been propped against a rock which had attracted the lightning of a sudden thunderstorm : the bolt had hit the rock straight on and rolled down the rock — so they all swore — to stab him fatally in the neck . |
| 10 | Now it was drawing to its end she gathered the courage to look him straight in the face . |
| 11 | She pulled herself together , swallowing hard , and forced herself to look him straight in the face . |
| 12 | Once when he was at school camp , Shanti and I went to fetch him home at the end of the camp weekend . |
| 13 | Let us all pray earnestly to God to guide him away from the swamp . ’ |
| 14 | His 69 Test wickets cost 38.72 each , and against England he took 28 wickets at 43 — expensive , but good enough to put him high on the list of all-rounders . |
| 15 | After that , D'Arcy called Dave Forbes in London to put him briefly in the picture and to tell him to liaise with the ship and cargo insurers at Lloyd 's . |
| 16 | The second Lady Deverill , having pulled her horse off Hullabaloo at the last minute , leaving herself just enough time to put him right at the ditch and hedge , did n't even bother to stop and admire her handiwork before riding on up the hill to rejoin the hunt and tell her husband that there seemed to have been a rather fearful accident . |
| 17 | ‘ We 'll give him a race around Christmas time and then one more to put him right in the Spring . ’ |
| 18 | I have very unpleasant recollections of sitting for him , for it was of utmost importance not to move but to fix him right in the eye and listen to him complain , saying as he always did that he was getting nowhere . |
| 19 | He conceded that it was hard on Alexander , and later came to respect him greatly for the way in which he gave Worrell his fullest support as vice-captain . |
| 20 | He handed over to poor Sir Alec Douglas-Home a party legacy of dwindling popularity , and although that amiable and resolute character fought with vigour and gallantry to maintain his position , the tide had sufficiently turned to abandon him gently on the beach , leaving Harold Wilson afloat in waters so shallow that the most gentle paddle hit the sand . |
| 21 | The elder of the two leaned down from the saddle to clap him amiably on the shoulder , and said a word or two in his ear , before they trotted away along the Foregate towards the Horse Fair . |
| 22 | Either the man she is with is not ready for a long-term commitment , he may be violent and she wants to keep him away from the child . |
| 23 | He wanted to hit him all over the face with his fists , to smash away his stupid smile , to stop him talking . |
| 24 | Fully expecting to see him either in the saloon , or in the galley , she was surprised to find both empty . |
| 25 | He also gives sanctuary to Tom Gradgrind , and arranges for Childers to see him safely aboard the ship that is to take him to foreign parts . |
| 26 | Junior wants granddaddy to carry him right to the car . ’ |
| 27 | Frank Howard , defending , said Millman had been drinking to celebrate his birthday and expected his girlfriend to drive him home at the end of the night . |
| 28 | He wanted to smash William 's teeth in , he wanted to kick him all round the airfield . |
| 29 | I could see from the onlooking faces that he was coming for me and at what speed , and when I felt the air behind me move and heard the brush of his clothes I went down fast on one knee and whirled and punched upwards hard into the bottom of his advancing rib cage and then shifted my weight into his body and upwards so as to lift him wholesale off the floor , and before he 'd got that sorted out I had one of his wrists in my hand and he ended up on his feet with me behind him , his arm in a nice painful lock and my mouth by his ear . |
| 30 | She was obviously humouring him , anxious to get him safely into the sitting room . |