Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] him [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Iago rose to take his leave , but the prince called him back for a moment . |
| 2 | But I have n't the heart to drive him back to the warren . |
| 3 | The smell reminded him vividly of the well-stocked library and quiet chancery of his novice days at Blackfriars . |
| 4 | As for Zen , any day now he would receive a telegram from the Ministry summoning him back to Rome , and that would be that . |
| 5 | For many years he ran his own scaffolding company but the recession forced him out of business . |
| 6 | He had laid by his sword , but he had a dagger still upon him , and managed to draw it and slash through the folds that smothered him ; and Norbury and Erpyngham and half a dozen others of his own people came plunging and splashing through the storm to help him out of these ominous grave-clothes . |
| 7 | Miffed , Grunte hailed a cab and instructed the driver to take him gently to Roedean . |
| 8 | He told the driver to take him back to his office . |
| 9 | He fell and grovelled in agony as the driver lashed him repeatedly about the head and body . |
| 10 | The noise guided him straight to the wharfs , down on the river side , for this part of the Suir is also an inland navigation up to Clonmel . |
| 11 | He was not brown like Buddie , with crinkly hair and pale palms , but a certain swarthiness of the skin set him apart from all the other boys he knew . |
| 12 | The wind takes him away like a curtain snatch on a bad act . |
| 13 | The early starts were a disadvantage , but Charles had minimized that by staying with Miles and Juliet and having the car pick him up at six . |
| 14 | While she was driven over to Greenwich to interview Maggie Parkin , the superintendent sent him back to Scotland Yard to harry the forensic science laboratories over the bloodstains on the pair of scissors . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ The lad is torn politically because while their president is happy to let us have him on trial , the trainer wants him back for matches . |
| 16 | It was in his adopted position of right-back that Paul gained two England Under 21 caps and he is one of only a handful of players who have appeared for the Palace in ten post-war seasons , while his 319 games for the club place him firmly in the top five all-time appearances for us . |
| 17 | The fear followed him on to the table at the Rothmans and the man who had pillaged nine titles last season lost to world No 52 Tony Chappel — a player who had managed to take just one frame off him in two previous meetings . |
| 18 | When the balance is correct then you just sit and ride forward with your legs closed gently round the horse riding him up to a soft contact on the reins . |
| 19 | ‘ But it is the owner 's view that Jimmy does not suit Cool Ground , and he says he prefers a jockey who sits still and allows the horse to take him along to his fences . |
| 20 | The title-page describes him simply as a Scholar of New College , Oxford and a Barrister at Law . |
| 21 | I dashed out down the street to the pub to get him round to the cottage before Mr Vulcan changed his mind . |
| 22 | A shout from the front of the wood called him back to the edge of the field , where men were watching a group of the enemy busy with spades on the high ground to his left , near the wood where they stationed the Normans . |
| 23 | He asked the coach to fit him up with a pair of boxing gloves . |
| 24 | He is n't here by accident , and your news about an unofficial hunt being launched for the boy sent him off in a hurry to this place . ’ |
| 25 | That was when , with a glass-cracking shriek , the harpy brought him down from behind . |
| 26 | The lady accompanies him back to the Alps , to wait and worry as he and his partner , Hansi Kirchner , set off up the virgin North Face of Versücherin . |
| 27 | Now it was drawing to its end she gathered the courage to look him straight in the face . |
| 28 | An advanced manoeuvre used in stronger winds in which the sailor lets the sail pull him on to the board from a position in the water . |
| 29 | I 'm sure there 's no- ’ Rincewind began , as the dragonrider guided him firmly onto the platform , pushed him onto a seat , and proceeded to strap hookboots to his feet . |
| 30 | Now my Lord the defendants say of course , that they were never asked by the plaintiff to get him out of the contract so that the duty er never arose . |