Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] him [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have worked for him for more than three years and have come to admire him both as a doctor and a man . |
| 2 | He wondered if they had come to take him away to a Home for ungrateful and unwanted children . |
| 3 | His petty-bourgeois family background , his status as an intellectual conversant with the rites of bourgeois education , values and culture , his sophisticated literary and critical talents as a writer , all conspired to set him apart from the communist party leadership and rank and file members alike . |
| 4 | When an attempt is made to set him up as a Saint , it is scarcely possible for any man of good sense who knows the history of his times to preserve his gravity . |
| 5 | He handed over to poor Sir Alec Douglas-Home a party legacy of dwindling popularity , and although that amiable and resolute character fought with vigour and gallantry to maintain his position , the tide had sufficiently turned to abandon him gently on the beach , leaving Harold Wilson afloat in waters so shallow that the most gentle paddle hit the sand . |
| 6 | Trainer Nigel Twiston-Davies had intended to send him straight to the Cheltenham Festival , but the lure of the £25,000-added Cavalier Chase has proved too tempting . |
| 7 | She turned her head towards the servant who had just hurried to let him in to the audience-chamber , and put out an imperious hand to arrest his attention . |
| 8 | The Croatian Defence Minister , Martin Spegelj , was the sixth accused but Croatia had refused to hand him over to the JNA . |
| 9 | If Nodform Wonder is in anything like the form he was at Wetherby on Friday , he will laugh off the six pound penalty that is intended to slow him down in the Levy Board Handicap Hurdle at Kelso . |
| 10 | He asked the taxi he had taken to put him down at the top of the drift and he had walked to the house . |
| 11 | The father , thinking it was some foolish notion she had taken to have him out of the boat , took no notice of her frantic signs , but she would not let him go , and dragged him with almost superhuman effort out of the boat . |
| 12 | If this is the case he will run a big race for trainer Noel Meade who was forced to take him out of the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham . |
| 13 | If he loses he still wo n't quit but the FA could be forced to throw him overboard in a latter-day Boston tea party . |
| 14 | We were warned to keep him out of the bedrooms , and for days we resisted the howls and barks and pneumatic drill impersonations . |
| 15 | Andy Roxburgh will check on Hendry before the World Cup qualifier with Portugal and is poised to bring him in for a match Scotland must now win . |
| 16 | When they had eventually managed to get him out of the house he 'd helped her to carry the remaining dishes from the dining-room , a thing he never did . |