Example sentences of "[to-vb] he [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he improves over the next 3–4 years and lasts until he 's 30 , then you will have to put him up alongside the other 2 . |
| 2 | I offered , once again , to put him up in the spare room for the night , but , once again , he would n't hear of it . |
| 3 | Her mind worried the problem of where would he find lodgings , how could she summon the strength to put him out of the only refuge he had ? |
| 4 | But Travis had been marvellously patient for months and months now — could n't she find a way to put him out of the private hell he was in ? |
| 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 | I was lucky enough to knock him out in the first round . |
| 7 | Even if it was n't quite enough finesse to keep him out of the loony bin . |
| 8 | The Goblins wait until the enemy are close by , and then push the Fanatic out towards the foe , giving him a good shove to start him off in the right direction . |
| 9 | Although the DIA clearly had plans for him , it was evidently in no hurry to send him back to the Middle East . |
| 10 | If there was no work there , the tramping artisan was fed , given a bed for the night and a few pence to see him on to the next town on the official tramping route . |
| 11 | ‘ Gazza has always been brilliant on the football field and it will be great to see him back after the long haul he 's had . ’ |
| 12 | There were hundreds of screaming women outside and we had to whisk him down to the underground car park and shut the gates behind him . |
| 13 | Lance Buckmaster , our esteemed Minister for External Security has asked me to attend him down at the ancestral home , Tavey Grange on Dartmoor . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | We worked very hard to get him out of the Soviet Union — well , you know all that , Mr Carpenter will have told you , and he will have told you what went wrong … ’ |
| 16 | It wo n't have escaped anybody 's attention that the Indian spinner Anil Kumble rose to the dizzy heights of No 3 in the world thanks to the vain attempts of Robin Smith and Co to fathom him out during the disastrous tour of the subcontinent . |
| 17 | No doubt this ‘ concession ’ was to soften him up for the next examination . |
| 18 | Surely the man had enough sense to take him over to the other corner , where aged Chevrolets lay wearily beside battered Valiants , motorbikes and scooters . |
| 19 | Attempts were made to bring Erich Honecker , the former East German party and government leader , to trial on charges of giving the " shoot-to-kill " order to guards preventing illegal border-crossings , but the Soviet Union , where Honecker and his wife were , refused to hand him over to the German authorities [ see pp. 37828-29 ; 38110 ; for June sentencing of Harry Tisch see pp. 37967 ; 38298 ] . |
| 20 | He was in such a state that I literally had to drag him back to the main road . |
| 21 | To bring him up to the required standard he had to go to a boarding preparatory school , which he loathed so much he escaped over the wall and hitchhiked home . |
| 22 | But despite Mr McDonald 's frantic efforts , the kiss of life was not enough to bring him back from the dead . |