Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] him [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lance Buckmaster , our esteemed Minister for External Security has asked me to attend him down at the ancestral home , Tavey Grange on Dartmoor . ’ |
| 2 | He wrote round to fifteen builders on 22nd March and , with what today would be regarded as incredible naïveté , asked them to meet him together at the Office of Works on 24th March . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Told me to keep him still for a couple of days . ’ |
| 6 | It took four of them to lift him on to a trolley and take him away for observation , with the police riding shotgun at his side , and then things gradually returned to normal — or as normal as they could given the extraordinary circumstances . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It cost the poor milkman a fortune to get them to pay him up for the milk people said they did n't get , you know ! |
| 9 | Oddly enough the worst was his shoulder , where the man had seized it to pull him out of the car . |
| 10 | He rose to his feet , wiped his hands on his jeans , then beckoned them to follow him up to the house . |
| 11 | The person 's kept himself out of trouble so is it really right for us to get him back before the courts again ? |