Example sentences of "and [verb] him [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Humility is to orient our lives towards God , so that we understand and obey him in a greater and greater sense . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Then they peeled back the bedcovers and laid him on a crisp sheet , covering him from the waist down with another sheet . |
4 | Then the door of the Earl 's hall slowly yielded , and his father carried him in and laid him on the same bales . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Someone grabbed his arm , and led him to a waiting horse on which he galloped away leaving behind his winnings . |
7 | Sylvie wrapped her hand round Thomas 's arm and led him towards a far corner . |
8 | So with this going on we found our company would get on better if I had collateral so I wrote to this boy and asked him for a million and put it in a trust fund that I would get after his death , and we that way so okay . |
9 | Harry Carpenter came up to interview him and asked him about the last putt . |
10 | But in the same split second something like an iron band clamped round his waist , squeezing the breath from him and bringing him to a dead stop . |
11 | His wife , who was alleged to have aided and abetted him on the second occasion was jailed for three years after a two-day trial . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | He pounded Benichou to the body and caught him with a right cross to the chin at the end of the first . |
15 | If you put your Orc Shaman on a wyvern and fly him to the other end of the battlefield he wo n't be able to use his Waaagh magic . |
16 | A furtive junior diplomat bowing and scraping his way out of the interview section of the Lefortovo , ogling the KGB man and thanking him for a fifteen-minute access to a prisoner for whom the key was now thrown far away . |
17 | After a reviving sip of coffee , she took a deep breath , flipped off her dark glasses , and fixed him with a level gaze . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | His deputy , Robert Forgan , had satisfactory talks with Neil Francis Hawkins about the amalgamation of the New Party with the British Fascists , but the grand council of the British Fascists voted against a merger by one vote in May 1932 after its founder Rotha Lintorn Orman , who was very suspicious of Mosley and regarded him as a near communist , vigorously opposed the change . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | The man held up a hand to silence Barak then turned to the guard beside him and dismissed him with a curt nod of the head . |
22 | Buchanan 's Triangles clubmate Mark Tosh pushed hard to try and catch him on the five-mile run but the Derry man won in a time of 1.28.52 . |
23 | Even so the men who stole a hundred pounds from him at his home in Witney still felt the need to punch and kick him and beat him with a wooden club . |
24 | They bound Guthlac ‘ in all his limbs … and brought him to the black fen , and threw and sank him in the muddy waters ’ . |
25 | Apart from helping with his wardrobe , LASMO also covered the costs of his tuition , accommodation and books , and provided him with a living allowance . |
26 | A second group of provincial delegates arrived in St Petersburg just after his appointment and provided him with a sympathetic audience for his opinions . |
27 | In theory , it is a simple matter to overthrow a wilting strongman and replace him with a civilian president conveniently waiting in the wings . |
28 | Charlemagne and the pope had received information from certain persons that Offa was suggesting that the Frankish king should depose Hadrian and replace him with a new pope of Frankish extraction . |
29 | WE WISH TO REMOVE CASTRO AND REPLACE HIM WITH A WEALTHY RIGHT WING ENTREPRENEUR |
30 | They insisted that Derek enter their car and drove him to a quiet layby a short distance away . |