Example sentences of "[coord] [vb base] him [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 You are to search out the traitor Raphael and , when you find him , kill him or bring him back for me . ’
2 Do you have to walk miles to turn him out or bring him in ?
3 office place and give him a bag of plaster and tell him to plaster there for a day either that or send him up
4 Would release embarrass him or cut him off from that obscure membership of the masculine club ?
5 The OR then calls a meeting of creditors to decide whether they will make the debtor bankrupt or let him off by accepting an arrangement for less than 100 per cent of their debts to be paid in full and final settlement .
6 Call him , or stand him down , as you prefer . ’
7 for whom that I had to decide whether I was going to marry him or give him up and decided I could n't give him up so I married him and was extremely happy and was shattered when he died and I , I , a , it went from you know I , I never real , thought I would be as happy , could be as happy as I was
8 He began to speak out loud over the sound of the copious running water ; he congratulated himself for not crying in public , he congratulated himself for not getting hurt , for not letting himself be assaulted on the way home , for not letting anyone corner him or get him down on the floor or up against a wall but for keeping walking instead .
9 ‘ I know , ’ Cleg 's big hand covered hers , ‘ but , for your own sake , send your cousin packing or marry him out of the way , then no-one will have room to talk . ’
10 He lived and played and wrote and toured frenetically for the next couple of years , working night and day — with just a little help from Benzedrine , Methedrine , and anything else that would speed him up or slow him down .
11 Often clients think they know best and have the trade publication editor to lunch or ring him up with titbits and gossip .
12 And you never say you 'd like to be taken out for a change , or ring him up when you want a bit of company ? ’
13 I 'll have it out of him or turn him over to the press gang .
14 Heseltine needs Thatcher to do the decent thing and step down this summer , or invite him back into the cabinet .
15 He 'd hoped that it meant no more than that she was growing up and had become aware of herself as a young woman ; that as a consequence it was not quite the done thing for her to rush across a room and hug him like a kid sister , or trip him up in the haybarn and fling herself on top of him like a puppy spoiling for a game .
16 If you 've got an enemy out there , you either buy him off or take him out ; that 's how I see it .
17 Pinned as she was beneath his weight she had n't even the leverage to free her arms or buck him off — though she tried desperately .
18 BRIGHTON Mark Steel is a comic who should be returned to at irregular intervals : see him too often ( and he is all over London ) and you tire of his south London patter , but go back to his schoolroom lesson after a break from the circuit , or see him off his home patch and you 'll enjoy an exercise bookful of character face-pulling , energetic storytelling and witty , like-it-is observations .
19 When I got to the spot , I groped beneath the water to try and find him and drag him up , but could feel nothing .
20 At least now he 's surrounded by people who encourage and inspire him , who kick his arse , help him write songs and drag him out of the isolated , uncreative lethargy he easily slips into .
21 He let Coffin go up and drag him out .
22 He had never been with a man who wanted to take him out at three in morning and stand him up against a wall in a dark street and jerk him off , not because there was nowhere else to go , but for the pleasure of doing it like that ; he had never done it again and again with one body .
23 But let smaller pictures of God satisfy us and squeeze him out , and we are back on the easier road to cheap grace and nominal faith .
24 I was depending on Francesca to look after Thornton , and give him lunch and introduce him around , since she 'll be working with him . ’
25 A well-informed horseman simply had to grasp the horse 's head firmly and give it a sharp turn and back him out of the area that had been contaminated by the jading substance .
26 In the worst of three public falls , he ‘ crashed over like a tree ’ at the 1936 Democratic convention , but aides rushed to hide him and pick him up .
27 And then if I please to reach him a hand and pick him up again , he shall know and acknowledge to whom he owes it , and walk more humbly thereafter .
28 But Neil he was gon na go down to Tesco 's but he is , Ipswich , ca n't get down here , so he ca n't sort of travel and you know what the hassle of having to take him and pick him up .
29 Yeah , but he could probably do a two till ten shift , but the two would be alright , but you would n't want to go out ten o'clock at night and pick him up .
30 So I went to bed and I had to get up and get dressed and go and pick him up
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