Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] him [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I have n't the heart to drive him back to the warren . |
| 2 | Sinn Fein failed in an attempt to co-opt him on to the council on Wednesday night . |
| 3 | Frank Howard , defending , said Millman had been drinking to celebrate his birthday and expected his girlfriend to drive him home at the end of the night . |
| 4 | This consisted of enrolling one 's child in a private playschool , which sent a car to pick him up in the morning and deposit him back on his own doorstep in the late afternoon . |
| 5 | Adams benefited from the tailenders ' intention to belt him out of the ground , taking three of the last five wickets for final figures of four for 43 from 21.4 overs . |
| 6 | Theda opened her mouth to blister him out of the torment that consumed her … and paused , arrested by the look in his face . |
| 7 | He asked the coach to fit him up with a pair of boxing gloves . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I dashed out down the street to the pub to get him round to the cottage before Mr Vulcan changed his mind . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The fascination of this book is in its clear-sighted debunking of the myths which many have fondly mistaken for historical truth : that Columbus was really aiming for Asia , that he and his sailors thought the world was flat , that Queen Isabella pawned her jewels to finance his trips and came down with her husband to wave him off from the docks , or even ( a fondly-cherished delusion ) that these were journeys of discovery rather than intentional acquisition and expansion of the Spanish empire . |
| 12 | Now it was drawing to its end she gathered the courage to look him straight in the face . |
| 13 | Even if it was n't quite enough finesse to keep him out of the loony bin . |
| 14 | But Mr Donnellan claimed they wanted him to admit a lesser charge to get him out of the college quietly . |
| 15 | Now my Lord the defendants say of course , that they were never asked by the plaintiff to get him out of the contract so that the duty er never arose . |
| 16 | The elder of the two leaned down from the saddle to clap him amiably on the shoulder , and said a word or two in his ear , before they trotted away along the Foregate towards the Horse Fair . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Junior wants granddaddy to carry him right to the car . ’ |
| 19 | Patrick was studying medicine , and it was her wish to set him up in a practice of his own one day . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Possibly a convenient excuse to get him out of the team , the way he 's playing at the moment ? |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | Although the DIA clearly had plans for him , it was evidently in no hurry to send him back to the Middle East . |
| 25 | ‘ If it were possible for the Football League to kick him out of the club , that 's what I want . |
| 26 | She was shouting now , scorching with pain , pushing at his hard chest in a futile effort to move him away from the door . |
| 27 | 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 ? |
| 28 | Blanche told the press officer to invite him round for an ‘ off the record ’ briefing . |
| 29 | Milton , the provost believed , should write to the collector of customs to have him tell the threatened tide waiter that he was in no danger , and at the same time secure an order for Main to cross to West Lothian for a few days , around the time of the burgh elections , in order to get him out of the way , for the election of the deacon of the wrights would turn on this single vote . |
| 30 | ‘ He 's been my guardian spirit for years and it 's interesting to be forced to suppress all my own creativity in order to copy him slavishly to the last detail . |