Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] him [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Sand Table gives every indication that his trainer has laid him out with the Royal Hunt Cup in mind . |
| 2 | And Sand Table gives every indication that his trainer has laid him out with the Royal Hunt Cup in mind . |
| 3 | AIDS has ousted him out of history . |
| 4 | because he lives a life where material luxury has bought him out of the social expectations imposed on less fortunate people . |
| 5 | Eventually the soldier shrugged his shoulders and picked it up himself Its weight seemed to drag him out of sight into his enormous greatcoat . |
| 6 | Breaking the three-generational run of Lester Knox Colemans , his sons , Joshua and Chad , were born on 16 September 1989 , at about the same time as the DIA decided to dust him off for his next assignment . |
| 7 | To her it seemed that they were closing in on her , and she looked ahead nervously , seeing that Lucenzo 's rapid stride had taken him out of sight . |
| 8 | Although the very thought of court action had brought him out in a cold sweat , the same grittiness which had enabled his father to jump ship and seek a new life now came to his rescue . |
| 9 | There was a boy she fancied herself — Jeff Freeman — and she was busy laying plans to entice him away from his steady girlfriend . |
| 10 | A large crowd of spectators from the corner pub helped drag him out of the mud . |
| 11 | Unfortunately it meant that there was n't enough for the consultant to do to keep him out of her way , and every time she turned round she almost fell over him . |
| 12 | it was at this crisis point that the tour management decided to send him back to school — to Alf Gover 's famous establishment for an intensive three-day course . |
| 13 | Two years before his death , he had told Herbert Read that the best of his poetry had cost him dearly in experience . |
| 14 | His insights and skill have made him much in demand as a consultant . |
| 15 | It was the song that Crawford 's singing teacher had prepared him well for , and the star put all his emotion into it . |
| 16 | There was a pause , and the Oak seemed to study him afresh with solemn , scholarly eyes . |
| 17 | He is an old man who Mr Browning met in the burning streets of Florence last month half out of his wits and with nowhere to go his wife having thrown him out for what reason I do not know . |
| 18 | They fear that responsibilities and attitudes once a prominent part of a teacher 's life may no longer be regarded as essential ; they fear an erosion of the teacher 's role and status , and see changes as signalling moves to squeeze him out of concerns that were and are rightly his . |
| 19 | In The Young Stepmother ( 1861 ) Charlotte M. Yonge represents Mr Kendal as a positive recluse within his study ; and even when his lively second wife contrives to drive him out of it into her morning-room , she has to prevent him from turning that room too into a ‘ literal boudoir ’ , by which she seems to mean ‘ a place to sulk in ’ . |
| 20 | At home in Northumberland long ago , there had been a painting by Sickert whose poignancy and brilliance had stopped him nightly on his way to bed . |
| 21 | Now , you may remember when we inspected his corpse , we noticed the water had soaked him up to his knees ? ’ |
| 22 | The cost of making good the damage done to his grounds as a result of the event had left him out of pocket . |
| 23 | His wife had to take him home to Cheshire . |
| 24 | It was important not to remember how Nuadu had looked in those last moments , defiant and unafraid , his head thrown back as the Robemaker had dragged him forward by the vicious crimson rope-lights . |
| 25 | He understood the depth of the compliment : the landlord had compared him favourably with that greatest of heroes , a local boy made good ( so long , of course , as he makes good far away ) . |
| 26 | When Wattling carved up his face , the head wanted to hand him over to Mrs C. , without calling the doctor in . ’ |
| 27 | The landlord refused to let him back in . ’ |
| 28 | Marlon had been embarrassed by his mum coming to pick him up from the school disco . |
| 29 | He phoned her several times a day to check she was there , even though both Susie and her manager had asked him not to . |
| 30 | Probably the people whose advice had put him behind in the polls during the first weeks of the campaign . |