Example sentences of "[to-vb] him [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 His family could n't afford to set him up as an independent farmer .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 We 're going to put him up for a few days .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 ?
8 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 ?
9 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 .
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 I was lucky enough to knock him out in the first round .
12 Even if it was n't quite enough finesse to keep him out of the loony bin .
13 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 .
14 Although the DIA clearly had plans for him , it was evidently in no hurry to send him back to the Middle East .
15 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 .
16 ‘ 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 . ’
17 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 .
18 Lance Buckmaster , our esteemed Minister for External Security has asked me to attend him down at the ancestral home , Tavey Grange on Dartmoor . ’
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 She was still trying to get him off with a nice society type .
22 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 … ’
23 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 .
24 No doubt this ‘ concession ’ was to soften him up for the next examination .
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 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 ] .
29 He was in such a state that I literally had to drag him back to the main road .
30 Even then fitness-fanatic Mr Bush is likely to drag him out for an early morning swim .
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