Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [verb] him [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It was a short-lived success , and the principal landowners in both East and West Sussex forced him out in 1820 by putting up one of his neighbours , Curteis of Windmill Hill against him .
2 as if reading his mind Maggie tugged him across in front of her so that he could comfort his wife .
3 PSYCHIATRIC reports are to be prepared on an unemployed woodcutter , Brian McGregor , whose forged football coupon lined him up for potential winnings of £3,826.47 billion .
4 It was De Gaulle who asked me the dumb question in the van-his condescension brought him down to what he imagined was my level .
5 Stevens 's superior speed and technique combined with superb fighting spirit carried him through to the final .
6 Stevens 's superior speed and technique combined with superb fighting spirit carried him through to the final .
7 ‘ If it were possible for the Football League to kick him out of the club , that 's what I want .
8 Cranog Jones claims his ex-wife Margaret wanted him out of the family home .
9 He finished on the rostrum in three of the first four GPs ( ignition failure put him out of the fourth ) and he beat John Kocinski in stunning style to win the fifth GP of the season at the Nurburgring .
10 The Puerto Rican 's work rate kept him well in contention until that crucial ninth , when McKenzie had to call on all his experience and determination to get through it .
11 In São Paulo , he was about to find out , but a complex series of engine mishaps put him out of the race .
12 The Home Secretary escorted him down to the ground-level .
13 The Test flanker Alan Whetton , whose hamstring injury kept him out against Wales , will form a powerful back row with Kevin Schuler and the international No.8 , Zinzan Brooke .
14 The brave tot , who has been battling leukaemia since he was six weeks old , was bouncing with life yesterday as mum Michelle took him out for a treat .
15 He was in Belfast in 1990 , but two heart attacks put him out of action for a while .
16 3 The attacker 's body weight drives him head-on into a claw strike that covers the whole area of the face .
17 Security considerations kept him away from the frontline base of Vitez , but soldiers from the mountain stronghold travelled 30 miles through bandit country to see him .
18 ‘ It took us some time to trace Mr Maxwell since his business interests take him all over the States .
19 A tube burst and the blow back threw him back against the tender end .
20 Harris still needed character , hard work and some spectacular court coverage to get him home by 1-9 , 6-9 , 9-4 , 9-2 , 9-3 against the local hero who got good support from the crowd to the bitter end .
21 His selkie blood called him back to the sea , though , and he became a sailor .
22 There was more in the pitch than on the opening day for the quicker bowlers and with the second new ball Mark Ilott , playing his first game for Essex for a year after serious back problems kept him out of the game last season , was impressively hostile .
23 His wife Mable scolded him out of the house on a bright May Saturday afternoon in the late 1920s .
24 A few hundred yards along the road , however , and the walking pace jolted him back to a more careful reckoning of the conversation .
25 The junior competition looks set for new champion Andrew Martin ( Prescot Eagle-Atlas ) , whose title win shot him up to 17 points .
26 She got help from the special unit , took out a court order to keep him away from her .
27 His platform photographs show him sometimes in a Blackshirt uniform like an army battledress , sometimes in a black suit buttoned tightly across his broad chest and a high-necked pullover , microphone clutched in his right hand , and left pushed into his jacket pocket .
28 Irwin , the centre whose back injury ruled him out of Ireland 's tour of North America , plays his first game for four months when Instonians take on Malone this weekend .
29 Afterwards a rickshaw driver hauls him off to the City of Joy , a vast area of slums where the matronly Joan Bethel ( Pauline Collins ) runs a school .
30 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 .
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