Example sentences of "[noun] get him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His political inclinations got him into trouble again in 1940 , however . |
| 2 | ‘ He came round the desks and I kicked him in the back of his legs to get him to the floor and I used my shirt to put out the flames and Hazel gave him first aid . ’ |
| 3 | At about 30 yards ' ( 27 m ) range , he began his charge , relying on speed to get him to the target before the pigs knew what was about to hit them . |
| 4 | There was both their backgrounds — a boy taken from a bleak past into a glorious future by a dedicated schoolteacher — and furthermore this acting business got him off duty , paid him as much cash as a miner 's weekly wage for a few hours ' easy work and had a satisfying tint of glamour … |
| 5 | Willis got him in the end , his last Test wicket . |
| 6 | He has hired Seth Riggs to get him in fine voice for the new musical I 'll Do Anything . |
| 7 | His bluntness got him into trouble . |
| 8 | ‘ Twenty-four years old he was when I found him in the provost 's prison in Paris , and paid his fine to get him for my own , him and that foster-brother of his whom you know well . ’ |
| 9 | He managed to avoid the morning shower by lingering over the cleaning of his shoes , and decided on a strategy to get him to the matron without attracting comment . |
| 10 | Lennox has not yet been hit in his 21 fights and if Razor gets him with that left smash , it 's goodnight . ’ |
| 11 | Even the dunce might come away from school with a phrase or two — — and the learned have sometimes gone to extraordinary lengths to get him into and out of their systems . |
| 12 | No but I mean why did it take three hours to get him to surgery ? |
| 13 | He gave it a few more seconds to get him through the next traffic signals and then killed it again . |
| 14 | Milton was developing a certain respect for the Colonel 's ability to get him off the main point of the interview . |
| 15 | ‘ If a guitarist smokes a couple of weeds to get him in the mood to play no-one bats an eyelid because he 's a public entertainer . |
| 16 | The family got him off the hook , of course , but it did n't go down well . |
| 17 | and this guy got him by the throat and pinned him to the wall and said Billy shut up ! |