Example sentences of "[vb past] him [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They received him readily , and haled him away across the moist grass just touched in the hollows with rime . |
| 32 | It 's a well-founded faith he has developed since Michelin this year singled him out as the only French chef worthy of upgrading to the coveted three-star accolade . |
| 33 | Whatever Gould 's personal opinion of Gilbert , or whatever his error , his qualifications as a naturalist were undisputed , and singled him out as the ideal candidate for sharing Gould 's exploration . |
| 34 | His family packed him off to the great University of Nuln where they hoped his energies would be dispersed in academic study . |
| 35 | At first she could n't find him anywhere but finally she tracked him down to the big barn . |
| 36 | I hit him again in the same place , a little harder . |
| 37 | I watched him carefully in the next few days . |
| 38 | I 'm saying that someone , having knocked Mr Hambro cold , dragged him across the path to the water , and shoved him firmly into the soft mud with his face under water , to die . ’ |
| 39 | Before the startled merchant could think of a reply , Cranston had taken Athelstan by the elbow and steered him out into the sun-baked street . |
| 40 | The State winched him out of the professorial chair when the ecclesiastical authority was lukewarm . |
| 41 | Michael took the case from him and led him away to the hired car . |
| 42 | McGowan took Jed by the arm and led him over to the cardboard box . |
| 43 | She took hold of his hand and led him over to the small bed . |
| 44 | A bell tolled , the sign for Compline , and Lady Amelia led him down through the darkened cloister out across the grass to the church . |
| 45 | With Endill 's help , she led him back to the sick bay . |
| 46 | He led him back along the wooden gantry to the steps . |
| 47 | But a bridge ( ‘ Residents Only ’ ) led him across to the main channel of the Cherwell , where the water was still flowing fairly swiftly after the week 's earlier rains , and where pieces of debris were intermittently knocking into the sides of the banks , and then turning and twisting , first one way then the other , like dodgem cars at the fun-fair . |
| 48 | Corbett wanted to leave Kinghorn quickly before the captain or Alexander began to question him , so , once he had finished his meal , he went to the stable and , saddling the garron , led him out towards the main gate . |
| 49 | One of Alejandro 's sons playing back rode him off for the backhand and hit it up the field to his brother who dribbled it a few yards , then sliced it to Perdita . |
| 50 | She rode him out over the last furlong and finished some six lengths behind Shine On . |
| 51 | NEVIL MARTIN is back in business again after a debilitating illness ruled him out of the local tournament scene last season . |
| 52 | We asked him here about the Eighties and their aftermath . |
| 53 | But when they brought him up into the higher reaches of the Warden 's Tower and shut him into his new prison he was stupefied to find it all they had claimed . |
| 54 | It was the Lord Ba'al 's love for the virgin Anat that brought him back from the dead , in response to her tears . |
| 55 | The way she brought him back from the dead , what can you say ? |
| 56 | When one of the dragomen did not perform to perfection , John Mason tossed him overboard into the brown waters of the Nile and took the helm himself . |
| 57 | I kept him away from the old man . |
| 58 | The tour party was weakened when Gordon Hamilton , the World Cup flank forward , withdrew yesterday because of doubts about his back injury , which kept him out of the Five Nations Championship . |
| 59 | Agassi was seeing a specialist in Seattle in a bid to beat the injury which kept him out of the French Open . |
| 60 | Guy was always very close to his older sister , and after his accident she treated him consistently in the same way as she had before , which helped him to regain his normal social skills very quickly . |