Example sentences of "[coord] [vb base] him [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was still small and malleable enough for Annie to put the palm of her hand over his chest and tummy , swing him back onto his back and tickle him gently with the tips of her splayed fingers . |
| 2 | There was a boat at the mill , and the current would help him down-river in the crossing and bring him quickly to the water-meadows by the abbey . |
| 3 | His room overlooked our house , and he could watch the comings and goings — we were having some turf laid at the time in which he was taking a great interest — and I used to drive round there every evening at half past five and bring him home for a meal , after which we would chat or watch television . |
| 4 | Morley Street is one of 11 entries for the Kingwell Hurdle at Wincanton on Thursday , but Balding is likely to avoid taking on Champion Hurdle favourite , Muse , there and send him straight to the Festival . |
| 5 | And put him straight in the . |
| 6 | This violent ritual of territorial supremacy , as described by Walter Besant in 1901 , sounds remarkably like the modern practice at football grounds of ‘ holding the End ’ : ‘ The boys gather together and hold the street ; if anyone ventures to pass through it they rush upon him , knock him down , and kick him savagely about the head ; they rob him as well … the boys regard holding the street with pride . ’ |
| 7 | Nolan took his attention off Sam for a split second , lashed out expertly at my face and whirled back to his prime target in time to parry Sam 's wildly lunging arm and kick him purposefully between the legs . |
| 8 | Were I to tell that story to my own son and tell him too of the subsequent shame and guilt that haunted me for months and is still so deeply etched in my memory , he would laugh and wonder what it was all about . |
| 9 | I pick up my black ash cane and rap him smartly across the knuckles . |
| 10 | Two films gave him temporary solvency and cast him straight into the seedier end of the youth market , the biker movies which were at the beginning of a craze that would last four or five years . |
| 11 | ‘ Take your son , your only son , whom you love , Isaac , and go to the land of Moriah , and offer him there as a burnt offering upon one of the mountains of which I shall tell you . ’ |
| 12 | Ruth sat down on the edge of the bed after he had left her , instructing her to come downstairs when she was refreshed and join him outside by the pool for a drink . |
| 13 | Much to Dudley Moore 's surprise , I pull out a small shiny silver pistol and blast him right between the eyes . |
| 14 | He he said get that , he said and go with him onto the train and see him safely in the compartment , ascertain the time of arrival in Ipswich , and go and telephone Ipswich police telling them that they were to meet this on arrival at Ipswich , and I thought that our Chief Constable really |
| 15 | He tried to break down the father-role position doctors held , so the patients could feel more relaxed and see him almost as an equal . |