Example sentences of "[to-vb] him [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a PEN Canada benefit event in Toronto last month , Salman Rushdie was cordially embraced by the Ontario Premier Bob Rae , the first government leader to meet him publicly since the Iranian fatwa . |
| 2 | His petty-bourgeois family background , his status as an intellectual conversant with the rites of bourgeois education , values and culture , his sophisticated literary and critical talents as a writer , all conspired to set him apart from the communist party leadership and rank and file members alike . |
| 3 | His family could n't afford to set him up as an independent farmer . |
| 4 | It sets out , by example as well as by direct command , the differences between right and wrong , so that the man who measures his conduct by Bible standards gains from it both " reproof " when he is in the wrong and " correction " to set him back on a right course . |
| 5 | His head bent towards her and once again Jenna lifted her hands to ward him off in a panic-stricken way , but her fingers felt useless . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Even if it was n't quite enough finesse to keep him out of the loony bin . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Although the DIA clearly had plans for him , it was evidently in no hurry to send him back to the Middle East . |
| 14 | She tried to see him dispassionately as a grey-haired solicitor rather too well endowed with easy charm ; indeed , she saw him thus , but she also saw him otherwise , and could not help herself . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Lance Buckmaster , our esteemed Minister for External Security has asked me to attend him down at the ancestral home , Tavey Grange on Dartmoor . ’ |
| 18 | He hoped the Frenchmen would be content to drive him away from the high road rather than pursue and capture him , but as he quickened the mare 's pace , so the Frenchman spurred their own horses . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Despite great pressure to allow a rescue plan to airlift him back to a natural habitat in cold Arctic waters , the Turkish authorities decided to let Russian experts take charge of him . |
| 22 | She was still trying to get him off with a nice society type . |
| 23 | 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 … ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He had added to the crumbs of education thrown to him by his father an ambition of his own focused on Samavia — not , to him , a real place so much as a symbol of satisfying large issues to take him out of a drab world . |
| 27 | They rang room service , then she had to push him off like a young puppy . |
| 28 | Now , what Darwin 's reflections on Malthus did was to move him away from a prenatal , maturational sorting of adaptive from maladaptive variation . |
| 29 | 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 ] . |
| 30 | If he loses he still wo n't quit but the FA could be forced to throw him overboard in a latter-day Boston tea party . |