Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] him [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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31 Charlemagne and the pope had received information from certain persons that Offa was suggesting that the Frankish king should depose Hadrian and replace him with a new pope of Frankish extraction .
32 WE WISH TO REMOVE CASTRO AND REPLACE HIM WITH A WEALTHY RIGHT WING ENTREPRENEUR
33 They insisted that Derek enter their car and drove him to a quiet layby a short distance away .
34 Indeed , to do so would mean the reversal of a process that has , since the sixteenth century , relentlessly parted the commoner from his freehold and common rights , and reduced him to a landless labourer .
35 Big-punching Wharton is also free of the agony in his right hand that plagued him for months and reduced him to a one-armed fighter when he was held to a draw by Londoner Lou Gent in November .
36 By the time Adam and Billie were drinking their coffees , the contact had interrupted Kragan at a training meeting and told him of the two foreigners in the Bellevue Hotel who were enquiring about the Dresden Heide .
37 If Charlie had been a different man , a cultivated man or effeminate or living in a bygone age when tongues were more freely unloosed , he might now have embraced Jack and told him from a full heart how he entered wholly into his joy and would die for his happiness .
38 Blinked a few times instead and told him in a croaky voice that I 'd met Erica Upton twice and had sat next to her at dinner .
39 Mr Brandreth met with Mr Hanley and told him in no uncertain terms that the people of Chester were far from happy with the decision to go to Glasgow .
40 Saw him at a sale being knocked down to a known horsemeat dealer and stepped in and outbid him at the last moment .
41 and we 'll sort it out ourselves and what they do , if a customer says oh there 's a phone that 's broke , or it 's not working or something like that , they 'll say oh okay we 'll get in touch with the maintenance for you , you see , cos he 's making nowt out of it , if you say we dropped the phone and broke it , well we 'll send a and then they send an engin one of their blokes out with a replacement phone and charge him for a new one , once they say wants some re-programming doing , oh yeah were sending an engineer round and they get , the dealer then gets the money for it so all we get is the flack end of it you know so we , a service contract it 's priced because , low because you know you 're gon na make a bit on moves and changes
42 We see a dancer at a rave , film him later that week , and project him at the next rave . ’
43 erm the managerial action which is available for you , t to take him out of there and put him into a different post , because he 's not capable of doing .
44 The victory , the 18th of Kite 's career , was worth $198,000 and lifted him into the top spot on this year 's US Tour money-winning list with $292,361 .
45 He looked down at Thornton and informed him of the new management attitude .
46 ‘ Why not go and see him in the proper way instead of lurking around by night ? ’
47 Crilly hugs my brother back warmly and introduces him to the languid one .
48 A crowd of eager customers would be awaiting his arrival outside the shops and attack him for the particular colour , size or style of dress they had been waiting for .
49 He saw Wycliffe and acknowledged him with a timid gesture .
50 She seemed inclined to give Harry short shrift , but at his mention of Heather 's name , she relented and showed him into the front room , where a meagre measure of calm and quiet prevailed .
51 In 1809 William Bullock moved to London and in 1812 George sold up and joined him at the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly .
52 Putting down his carrot , Hazel ran across , scrambled up the bank and joined him on the bare ground under the low , close boughs .
53 She moved house and with the cooperation of the new local head teacher changed Tom 's mainstream school , and withdrew him from the off-site unit .
54 The FSLN and Antonio Lacayo Oyanguren , the influential presidency minister , both accused Godoy of fomenting political unrest and linked him to a current mobilization of several hundred former contra rebels [ see below ] .
55 Yet , when one of the local farmers , grinding the bony soil of a resisting field , felt the earth give way and drop him into a narrow grave , and discovered there a store of gravegoods disposed around the human remains , the interval of the centuries seemed to close .
56 None the less , it is broadly speaking true that the Church had exalted the monarch in the tenth century , and abased him in the twelfth ; that the Church had taught obedience to him in the tenth century when ancient rights of resistance to a king who broke his subjects ' rights and liberties still flourished ; and that in the twelfth century Church and people exchanged ideas about the bases for the right of resistance .
57 But first I think we should phone Azadi himself and tell him in no uncertain terms that we are as unhappy about this as he is .
58 Jennie told Katharine to keep pushing with her inside leg and holding him with the outside rein to stop him walking forward .
59 In a world of single parents , almost all of them female , it is the relationship that the young man has with a solid male figure that gives him an edge and keeps him on the straight and narrow .
60 She nodded in what she hoped was an equally casual manner and followed him across the crowded foyer to the social club .
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