Example sentences of "[coord] [vb base] him [adv] [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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In the end I had to go up to him and bring him back to the fire . |
| 14 | Could I say to the minister and bring him back to the real world about regeneration . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We try and slip him in on the sly when we think we 've got them hooked . |
| 18 | I managed to heave Charlie into the main bar and prop him up against a wall . |
| 19 | I took Mr Aird down the corridor , and let him out of the side door . |
| 20 | And put him straight in the . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ I hope they catch this cowardly thug and lock him up for a long time . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I 've been sent here to find out what really happened and get him back to the States . ’ |
| 27 | When he 's here I start fights and drive him out of the house . |
| 28 | And instinctively she reached out her arms as if to circle his neck and draw him down into an imaginary embrace . |
| 29 | I pick up my black ash cane and rap him smartly across the knuckles . |
| 30 | 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 . |