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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They bound Guthlac ‘ in all his limbs … and brought him to the black fen , and threw and sank him in the muddy waters ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He looked down at Thornton and informed him of the new management attitude . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In 1809 William Bullock moved to London and in 1812 George sold up and joined him at the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly . |
| 10 | Putting down his carrot , Hazel ran across , scrambled up the bank and joined him on the bare ground under the low , close boughs . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She nodded in what she hoped was an equally casual manner and followed him across the crowded foyer to the social club . |
| 13 | He ignored her enquiry so she hauled herself out , slipped on a long T-shirt and followed him into the other room . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ We 're not playing , Connelly , ’ Farrell told him and pulled him across the hot and clammy room . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I had to catch up the axe and hit him with the blunt end , knock him out . |
| 19 | The teller of tall tales poked Rex in the chest with his pistol and steered him to the far end of the room . |
| 20 | They bound Guthlac ‘ in all his limbs … and brought him to the black fen , and threw and sank him in the muddy waters ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | What Hornung had done was to take his brother-in-law 's famous detective , Sherlock Holmes , and put him on the wrong side of the law ; a friendly dedication acknowledged the debt . |
| 24 | The court had taken Harvey away from his father and put him in the foster home ‘ until such time as the father can control his drinking and make a safe home for the boy . ’ |
| 25 | He took the Englishman by the arm and ushered him toward the easy chairs arranged around a long rectangular coffee table . |
| 26 | He cleared the breakfast things and left him with the small addressed postcard that he had been provided with to write a message on for his mother . |
| 27 | He tried protesting to Selkirk , who simply struck him across the mouth and pushed him through the metal-studded door . |
| 28 | Surely the lightning stroke of heaven should have fallen upon him and destroyed him in the very deed . ’ |
| 29 | Lucie slipped the scarlet waistcoat off Gabriel 's shoulders and skinned him of the white silk shirt . |
| 30 | He is himself unreadable and hence ungovernable — a walking accusation levelled at the sympathetic educated sensibility which seeks simultaneously to understand him and set him on the straight and narrow . |