Example sentences of "and [verb] [verb] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked if she remembered Old Red , and described meeting him in the subway , but not his current reputation , for that would have been less than tactful , as I hoped one day to marry them off , and unfair , since he had been so pleasant to me . |
| 2 | His American tour kicked off on day one at the Tournament of Champions in Southern California and has taken him to the two major Pro-Ams — the Bob Hope and the Crosby ( aforementioned Pebble Beach National Pro-Am ) — a trio of Florida events — Doral , the Honda Classic and the Players ' Championship — as well as The Masters , the Colonial , the Memorial , the season-ending Nabisco Championship and a slew of less-hallowed events in between . |
| 3 | Franco conducted it on his own terms , however , which meant that it was so gradual as to be barely perceptible at times , and designed to show him in the most favourable light possible . |
| 4 | He was also cursing his luck at being caught out in the open , when three figures stepped forward into the moonlight and stopped facing him across the intervening space . |
| 5 | His General Practitioner was notified by telephone of his impending discharge and promised to visit him within a couple of days . |
| 6 | As he approached the water she begged him to come with her and tried to drag him into the sea . |
| 7 | With Southampton trailing 2-1 and desperate for an equaliser , he grabbed the fan around the head and tried to drag him from the pitch . |
| 8 | Dalgliesh got out of the Jaguar and tried to extricate him from the pushchair , but the anatomy of the chair momentarily defeated him . |
| 9 | Chapman called at Bastin 's home and tried to convince him of the spectacular career he would have at Highbury . |
| 10 | And asserts that he did it ignorantly not knowing there was any evil in it , and after the several members of the presbytery had dealt with him and endeavoured to convince him of the sinfulness of the said practice he seemed to dislike the practice of the charm and judicially promised to forbear it for the future . |
| 11 | And asserts that he did it ignorantly not knowing there was any evil in it , and after the several members of the presbytery had dealt with him and endeavoured to convince him of the sinfulness of the said practice he seemed to dislike the practice of the charm and judicially promised to forbear it for the future . |
| 12 | However much the family sat and planned and prepared to scold him after a frightening bender , he would soon have them all melted with his gypsy stories . |
| 13 | They valued his vigour and inventiveness and came to respect him as a reliable man of business . |
| 14 | She wondered if Mrs Gray wanted to be fair to her husband and to avoid mentioning him in a role which showed him having to report to HQ , as it were ; or whether she wanted to be fair to Canon Wheeler , about whom , her tone suggested , she might share her husband 's opinion . |
| 15 | Naihe from Ka'u on the Big Island was so expert a surfer that his fellow chiefs grew jealous and plotted to lure him into a surfing contest in which he would die . |
| 16 | She insisted that hospitalization was necessary and threatened to commit him to a private mental hospital unless the university hospital took him as an in-patient . |
| 17 | She looked around her despairingly and began to push him towards the pantry . |
| 18 | She shifted the weight of his arm from her shoulders and began urging him towards the front door before his fabrications began to get even more elaborate . |
| 19 | But Mary was out so I gave him the letter and began to tell him about the trouble at home . |
| 20 | Your captain , Seru , was here earlier this morning and began to tell him about the holes in the AOL . |
| 21 | And they spat on him , and took the reed and began to beat him on the head , and after they had mocked him they took his robe off and put his garments on them and led him away to be , to crucify him . |
| 22 | Kate had decided to skip the afternoon 's classes and arranged to meet him at the boatyard near the Tech . |
| 23 | Flora Strachan , the ecology-conscious pensioner , had chased after him , waving a copy of her pamphlet An Uncommon Common and threatening to report him to the police . |
| 24 | Mr Seymour recalled the astonishment he had felt when a passenger opened the door of his driving cabin and started to hit him around the head . |
| 25 | Forgetting her half-formed resolution to stay in the car , she scrambled out on to the gravel path and started to follow him up the steps . |
| 26 | He used to go to the station and watch the farmers coming in ; and if he saw a likely one or one he knew , he used to approach him and try to get him to a pub to have a drink and talk things over . |
| 27 | I roll off my own bank , and try to follow him with the pipper . |
| 28 | Niall got a cabin call and went to see him during the night . |
| 29 | And the first step is to stop treating him like a tube of toothpaste — something you can squeeze the contents out of whenever it suits you — and start appreciating him for the easy-going patient guy he obviously is . |
| 30 | Physio Alan Smith raced on and battled to revive him after the former record buy had blocked his air passage by swallowing his tongue . |