Example sentences of "and [vb past] him [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the boy gave no answer , the old man took him by the arm and propelled him to the far end of the room , down the narrow stairway , through the tiny door and back to the safety of his own bedroom . |
| 2 | Then the door of the Earl 's hall slowly yielded , and his father carried him in and laid him on the same bales . |
| 3 | Corbett stared at him and looked away , the tension between them broken by the Pictish leader who took Thomas by the hand , like a child with a parent , and led him into the largest house , beckoning Corbett to follow them . |
| 4 | Harry Carpenter came up to interview him and asked him about the last putt . |
| 5 | I rang Prentice as I could n't think how to put it off any longer , and got him at the second number he 'd left . |
| 6 | His political ideals included the concept of arbitration as a substitute for war in the settlement of national disputes , and involved him in the jingoistic disputes of 1877 . |
| 7 | The sixteenth-century writers who condemned depopulation looked for a depopulator , and found him in the enclosing landlord , who found that stock , -rearing was more profitable than corn-growing . |
| 8 | Then , when he sought to take the oath , the House itself refused and excluded him on the dubious ground that , being an atheist , he could not swear . |
| 9 | They bound Guthlac ‘ in all his limbs … and brought him to the black fen , and threw and sank him in the muddy waters ’ . |
| 10 | By the time Adam and Billie were drinking their coffees , the contact had interrupted Kragan at a training meeting and told him of the two foreigners in the Bellevue Hotel who were enquiring about the Dresden Heide . |
| 11 | The victory , the 18th of Kite 's career , was worth $198,000 and lifted him into the top spot on this year 's US Tour money-winning list with $292,361 . |
| 12 | He looked down at Thornton and informed him of the new management attitude . |
| 13 | She seemed inclined to give Harry short shrift , but at his mention of Heather 's name , she relented and showed him into the front room , where a meagre measure of calm and quiet prevailed . |
| 14 | In 1809 William Bullock moved to London and in 1812 George sold up and joined him at the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly . |
| 15 | Putting down his carrot , Hazel ran across , scrambled up the bank and joined him on the bare ground under the low , close boughs . |
| 16 | She moved house and with the cooperation of the new local head teacher changed Tom 's mainstream school , and withdrew him from the off-site unit . |
| 17 | None the less , it is broadly speaking true that the Church had exalted the monarch in the tenth century , and abased him in the twelfth ; that the Church had taught obedience to him in the tenth century when ancient rights of resistance to a king who broke his subjects ' rights and liberties still flourished ; and that in the twelfth century Church and people exchanged ideas about the bases for the right of resistance . |
| 18 | She nodded in what she hoped was an equally casual manner and followed him across the crowded foyer to the social club . |
| 19 | He ignored her enquiry so she hauled herself out , slipped on a long T-shirt and followed him into the other room . |
| 20 | She rose obediently and followed him into the small counselling-room across the corridor from the nurses ' station , relieved to remember that Deana Davenport had the day off today . |
| 21 | In 1223 Richard was once again in the retinue of William Marshal and followed him over the next few years into Wales , Ireland , and Brittany . |
| 22 | ‘ We 're not playing , Connelly , ’ Farrell told him and pulled him across the hot and clammy room . |
| 23 | She took him to herself and loved him in the mystical , supreme way she believed her mother had loved her father ; she gave him everything — her innocence , her youth , her maidenhead . |
| 24 | When Richard came a couple of steps nearer — it would never have occurred to him to go back until the matter was satisfactorily settled — Harry , looking faintly surprised , as though he could n't believe that anything could be quite so simple , raised the adjustable spanner and hit him on the left side of the head , just below the ear . |
| 25 | I had to catch up the axe and hit him with the blunt end , knock him out . |
| 26 | Maisie grabbed his arm and steered him towards the next gallery . |
| 27 | The teller of tall tales poked Rex in the chest with his pistol and steered him to the far end of the room . |
| 28 | They bound Guthlac ‘ in all his limbs … and brought him to the black fen , and threw and sank him in the muddy waters ’ . |
| 29 | On another occasion his reference to the duty of the Old Testament prophets to denounce God 's judgements to the King and Court was reported to James II , who sent for him and reproached him for the controversial bitterness with which he had spoken . |
| 30 | He was very nearly as tall as her , but she put an arm under his shoulders and supported him to the untidy room which served as the stable office , calling to one of the stable girls to take over the class . |