Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [verb] him [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Cheney promptly slapped him down for speaking out of turn , which had more to do with Pentagon power play than strategy . |
| 2 | But the gentler Glackens agreed to consult and Barnes forthwith packed him off to Europe , $20,000 in hand , to buy pictures for him . |
| 3 | Murder of Duncan briefly shocks him back into some half-remembered humane responses , though these quickly dwindle again in renewed surfeits of horror . |
| 4 | Alexandra now lifted him on to her lap , where he immediately settled , plugged his thumb into his mouth and gazed pityingly down at his brothers and sister . |
| 5 | Sara seldom saw him off to work . |
| 6 | Thatcher reportedly singled him out for promotion when he was honest enough to tell her that backbenchers were uneasy about the state of the economy : like the young George Washington , he trembled , but could not tell a lie . |
| 7 | While he was there he learnt to fly with the University Air Squadron and was in despair when , on the outbreak of war , the RAF initially turned him down on medical grounds . |
| 8 | Though the Doctor was first out , looking around in calm appraisal , Clairvius Dubois almost knocked him down in his surprisingly sprightly enthusiasm to see what Mait 's home was actually like . |
| 9 | NORTHERN Ireland Minister Michael Mates was placed on probation last night after John Major publicly slapped him down in front of MPs . |