Example sentences of "[vb past] him [adv prt] [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Master Daunbey , ’ Mandeville caught him up at the corner of the gallery . |
| 8 | Hazel caught him up by the culvert . |
| 9 | He found him out in the garden , sitting on a wooden bench by the pond . |
| 10 | His mother helped him up onto the seat beside Mr McDoodle . |
| 11 | A bulky label helped him up to the belt . |
| 12 | Charles was grumbling as Damian supported his weak body and helped him out to the car . |
| 13 | He gasped out his news even as Corbett , who had hurried down from his chamber , helped him out of the saddle . |
| 14 | Then Emmie helped him out of the skip and along the railway ; he clutched her with one hand and held Murgatroyd with the other . |
| 15 | Strong hands turned him round and helped him out into the street again . |
| 16 | Strong hands turned Soapy round and helped him out into the street again . |
| 17 | Juliet helped him back under the bedclothes . |
| 18 | They beat him up in the alleyway , tied his hands and led him off to the Marshalsea . |
| 19 | They then bundled him out of the car and left him on the road . |
| 20 | Are you saying that we bundled him down to the waterside and had him hanged ? |
| 21 | The shapechanger dropped him on to the ground . |
| 22 | And this spirit continues with Jesus thereafter , it descended on him at baptism , it drove him out into the wilderness to be tempted and so on . |
| 23 | She imagined him out in the square at that very moment concocting a plan to get into the flat again and make a thorough search . |
| 24 | Bernard grabbed the front of Barak 's shirt and slammed him up against the wall . |
| 25 | He grabbed Brett the moment he opened the door and slammed him up against the wall . |
| 26 | However , when he grabbed Richard Baxter 's cloak it came away , and before he could do any more harm a couple of by-standers restrained him and hauled him off to the magistrates . |
| 27 | For a moment she looked furiously at Donald , her teeth bared like a cat 's , then she shook her hair out , spattering Donald with bree and barley , and hauled him back into the dance . |
| 28 | She reached and grabbed the tail of his long jacket , and she hauled him back down the stairs . |
| 29 | And now Jimmy had taken her hand as she hauled him back from the desk and … |
| 30 | Hoomey shot up round Bones 's ears and Bones , remembering his old ways , shook him back into the saddle and let out some contented snorts . |