Example sentences of "[verb] he [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Send him back the books and the money — he 'll think I stole them ! ’ |
| 2 | reported it and they send him out the flats . |
| 3 | I 've pursued him down the disappearing paths of my own psyche . |
| 4 | I used to drop in to have a word with the old man — cheer him up a bit . |
| 5 | Butter him up a bit . |
| 6 | It escapes me why he has n't had a spell in the reserves to shake him up a bit . |
| 7 | so I phoned him back the next day , ah he 's in our Glasgow office today so I phoned the Glasgow , he 's on the phone , I said that 's okay I 'll call back . |
| 8 | The gardener , Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke and I pursued him down the garden and into the bluebell wood . |
| 9 | What 's turn it over I mean it might start I du n no it let , let him down the other morning as well ! |
| 10 | Bet you his parents and the girlfriend helped him out a bit with his decision — ‘ You join them Rovers or else ! ! ! ’ . |
| 11 | HER REPLY on August 21 appears to have tipped him over a political brink . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's been disappointing that sometimes his emotional tension has dropped him down the placings . |
| 13 | I tell you , one night , if we knew he was coming , we would wait for him round the back and pitch him down the falls ! ’ |
| 14 | your horn and cut him up a bit . |
| 15 | And at last , and most imprudently , he married an ambitious tyrant who drove him up the career ladder , and when things began to get too much he set to work on a toy church with pastor , pulpit , congregation , organ and so forth . |
| 16 | His feet seemed hardly to touch the ground as the wind drove him up the slope . |
| 17 | Five minutes later Breeze was escorting him up the winding flagged path . |
| 18 | Folly found herself curiously reluctant to look up , as if by meeting his eye she might give him back the power he held over her . |
| 19 | This , and you put him up every time he comes up . |
| 20 | I 'd seen him around a few times . |
| 21 | Next day I seen him down the transport club . |
| 22 | ‘ I must say the old trousers he wears let him down a little — but at the wedding he 'll wear his best suit . |
| 23 | He motioned Karlinsky forward and with a generous flourish directed him up the three steps on to the small platform in front of the Ark of the Law where a lectern had been placed . |
| 24 | He 'd been expecting tight security at the entrance , but in the event the gates were open and unmanned , and a passing employee directed him along a concrete road leading to the garage where a man in blue overalls was washing one of the Fiat saloons . |
| 25 | If the student demonstrated by his choices that he did not fully understand a particular point then the programme could send him round an additional explanatory loop . |
| 26 | A series of brilliant intelligence coups had pushed him up the ladder rapidly . |
| 27 | For some reason he remembered old Doyle , the gardener , dead now for thirty years , leading him up the same pathway round to the back door and into the kitchen for the mid-morning cup of tea . |
| 28 | Initially they both showed signs of running a mile and denying all knowledge , but by cunningly playing on their male pride , their desire to believe they were ‘ a better man ’ than their rival , she made each one mad with jealousy of the other , and finally had her pick of which she preferred , leading him up the aisle of the Methodist Chapel well before the bulge began to show . |
| 29 | He poured him out a mug of hot , sweet tea and handed it to him . |
| 30 | Performance-wise , I suppose the best Bill ever managed was on a sunny spring weekday in the early 80s , when he 'd already passed his 60th birthday and I coaxed him up a few 5c slab routes at about E3 on Froggatt : Long John 's Slab , Great Slab , Armageddon . |