Example sentences of "[coord] [vb base] him [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He began to speak out loud over the sound of the copious running water ; he congratulated himself for not crying in public , he congratulated himself for not getting hurt , for not letting himself be assaulted on the way home , for not letting anyone corner him or get him down on the floor or up against a wall but for keeping walking instead . |
| 2 | ‘ I know , ’ Cleg 's big hand covered hers , ‘ but , for your own sake , send your cousin packing or marry him out of the way , then no-one will have room to talk . ’ |
| 3 | I 'll have it out of him or turn him over to the press gang . |
| 4 | Heseltine needs Thatcher to do the decent thing and step down this summer , or invite him back into the cabinet . |
| 5 | He 'd hoped that it meant no more than that she was growing up and had become aware of herself as a young woman ; that as a consequence it was not quite the done thing for her to rush across a room and hug him like a kid sister , or trip him up in the haybarn and fling herself on top of him like a puppy spoiling for a game . |
| 6 | At least now he 's surrounded by people who encourage and inspire him , who kick his arse , help him write songs and drag him out of the isolated , uncreative lethargy he easily slips into . |
| 7 | A well-informed horseman simply had to grasp the horse 's head firmly and give it a sharp turn and back him out of the area that had been contaminated by the jading substance . |
| 8 | I will give him sharp orders , he thought , and bring him up on a short rein ; and I will see him come to terms , and kiss the hand that curbs him . |
| 9 | We call upon the BBC for a radical change of policy and demand programmes which build character instead of destroying it , which encourage and sustain faith in God and bring Him back to the heart of our family and national life . |
| 10 | In the end I had to go up to him and bring him back to the fire . |
| 11 | Could I say to the minister and bring him back to the real world about regeneration . |
| 12 | Well often I might see somebody waving out by the gate frantically trying to get in where he 's put one of his different size padlocks round the gate , the back gate and the front gate , and often if we need to feed the cat he 's padlocked all the different padlocks round the kitchen cupboards erm we 've been unable to get the cat food out , so we 've had to go off in the car and bring him back from a friend because he 's the only one who knows which key goes with which padlock to undo all the cupboards . |
| 13 | We try and slip him in on the sly when we think we 've got them hooked . |
| 14 | I managed to heave Charlie into the main bar and prop him up against a wall . |
| 15 | I took Mr Aird down the corridor , and let him out of the side door . |
| 16 | He had never been with a man who wanted to take him out at three in morning and stand him up against a wall in a dark street and jerk him off , not because there was nowhere else to go , but for the pleasure of doing it like that ; he had never done it again and again with one body . |
| 17 | ‘ I hope they catch this cowardly thug and lock him up for a long time . ’ |
| 18 | I 've been sent here to find out what really happened and get him back to the States . ’ |
| 19 | When he 's here I start fights and drive him out of the house . |
| 20 | And instinctively she reached out her arms as if to circle his neck and draw him down into an imaginary embrace . |
| 21 | The house , nevertheless , had visitors interesting to the children ; a couple of famous Congregationalist laymen Frank Salter and Bernard Manning , both of whom were historians and riotous rompers with children ; the Reddaway children who lived next door ; the daughters of G. G. Coulton the English hammer of Popes ; and the friendship between the two sets of children caused Coulton to take an interest in Michael and carry him off to the village church at Coton to see medieval graffiti . |
| 22 | He had had to fight for everything he had done , fight the people who wanted to wrap him up safely and wheel him out for a bit of ribbon-cutting and ceremonial . |
| 23 | What is clear is that we need another ball control , distribution player , it is unfair for Macca be responsible for us all the time and besides teams can do what Ipswich did to him and mark him out of the game in the forward areas . |
| 24 | Perhaps he thought that if he made a success of the concert party , word would get around amongst show business that here was someone to keep an eye on , and his big chance might come ; that someone important in the music world might come up to him with a contract in his hand and sign him up for the next ten years as a successor to Sir Malcolm Sargeant . |
| 25 | Me strode away , leaving Athelstan scrambling — to clear his writing tray , repack the leather bag and follow him out to the yard . |
| 26 | There was little Coleman could do in the circumstances except fill out an IAP-66 authorization form for Syrian George and take him over to the embassy for a J-1 visa to admit him to the United States for a course of study at UAB . |
| 27 | Two o'clock and I always used to leave work and take him out for an hour . |
| 28 | I mean we Mitterand and take him down to the I suppose , see if that 'll do any good but erm |
| 29 | ‘ It was unduly punitive to take him to court and throw him out of the centre , ’ Silcock said . |
| 30 | If he loses I hope he would accept it with equal good grace and if he wins I will be a good loser and help him out in the general election . ’ |