Example sentences of "[vb past] him [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Richardson , too , made a mediocre start being one over par for his first six holes , but then birdies at the seventh , ninth and 10th moved him on to the leaderboard .
2 It was a glimmering he had , but no more than that , and she cast him down from the height of her knowledge .
3 His wife Mable scolded him out of the house on a bright May Saturday afternoon in the late 1920s .
4 Then she drew him on to the covers and pushed him gently back .
5 She drew him away to the corner by the iced water machine .
6 A hand caught his and drew him quietly into the room .
7 The story of a man compelled to search for a pure virgin , read one evening while his mother was mending stockings , left him ‘ haunted by spectres ’ whenever he was in the dark ; other stories drew him out to the churchyard , where , with his imagination overflowing , he would race up and down through the great avenue of elm trees , and act out among the docks , nettles and rank grass whatever he had been reading .
8 It was almost a treasonable thought , and Denis was relieved when Boxer , observing that the tractor was a ‘ queer-looking contraption ’ , drew him back to the present .
9 Carrefour faltered , doubling over as the bullet caught him just below the sternum .
10 He continued to go forward and even when Hodkinson caught him flush on the jaw with a straight right , it did n't stop his forward march .
11 ‘ Master Daunbey , ’ Mandeville caught him up at the corner of the gallery .
12 Hazel caught him up by the culvert .
13 She beamed at her husband , bravely facing the barrage of produce , and winced as a particularly juicy specimen caught him right on the chin .
14 She caught him again on the way back between oven and table , and sank herself into him once more , but after a moment became conscious that he was having to make a considerable effort to hold the hot saucepan away from her at arm 's length .
15 Her hand shot out and caught him fully on the side of the face , causing him to wince .
16 It could have saved him this time , but the policeman , half nerved up for aggression , caught him fairly in the doorway and hung on with professional ease .
17 ‘ She says she found him just outside the ship . ’
18 I found him here on the floor with his neck broken .
19 He found him out in the garden , sitting on a wooden bench by the pond .
20 James was full of praise for the medical teams who helped him both at the scene and at Coleraine hospital .
21 His mother helped him up onto the seat beside Mr McDoodle .
22 A bulky label helped him up to the belt .
23 Charles was grumbling as Damian supported his weak body and helped him out to the car .
24 He gasped out his news even as Corbett , who had hurried down from his chamber , helped him out of the saddle .
25 Then Emmie helped him out of the skip and along the railway ; he clutched her with one hand and held Murgatroyd with the other .
26 Strong hands turned him round and helped him out into the street again .
27 Strong hands turned Soapy round and helped him out into the street again .
28 Juliet helped him back under the bedclothes .
29 They beat him up in the alleyway , tied his hands and led him off to the Marshalsea .
30 She prodded him fiercely in the buttocks with the tip of her brolly , accusing him of disloyalty .
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