Example sentences of "[vb base] him [adv] [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 used to drop in to have a word with the old man — cheer him up a bit .
4 Butter him up a bit .
5 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 ! ’
6 Show him where the key is .
7 Probably cost him twice the amount !
8 Then he was up and levering the round boulder free , not listening to it crash down the mountain , doubting if the attackers would hear or see — and , if they did , whether they would be persuaded that it was his own body tumbling — but it was one extra little chance that cost him only a few seconds .
9 your horn and cut him up a bit .
10 This , and you put him up every time he comes up .
11 ‘ I must say the old trousers he wears let him down a little — but at the wedding he 'll wear his best suit .
12 The law classifies breaches of contract into two categories , first , breaches of a less serious nature which entitle the innocent party only to damages and secondly , more serious breaches which give him also the option to regard the contract as repudiated .
13 I give him back the open paper .
14 get him out the chair .
15 Jos said : ‘ Well tell him where the boxes are , you great girl 's blouse . ’
16 What I mean to say it 's not very , it could be appreciated if they about it , but we just er left to do it and then tell him afterwards the bits .
17 ‘ I like him quite a lot . ’
18 Peers visit him once a month to hand over expenses forms on which they specify the days they have attended the Chamber for debates .
19 Joy and Alan came back , and it was decided that we would wait until dark and then bring him down the fire escape ; luckily there was one right next to his room .
20 I had promised him that I would look her up , convey his admiring regards , and perhaps even bring him back a signed photograph of Miss Dragonette .
21 so he can either sleep in bed with his dad and J J or but they make him up a bed on that .
22 I laugh and push him up the last step .
23 One Lapp shows me his reindeer skin boots , and shrugs when I ask him why the toes curl up .
24 Ask him where the wine came from , ’ I demanded .
25 Ask him where the abbe is buried , ’ I said , an idea half-forming in my mind .
26 Give me a hand , Francis — get the stool out from under him ; straighten him up a little . ’
27 For a moment there was nothing to do but let the shabby old SE haul him up the last stretch , so Lambert actually relaxed and momentarily enjoyed his peace .
28 Kisling was livid , and with the help of some friends managed to grab the sculptor and throw him down the stairwell from the seventh floor .
29 Here , take him up a cup of tea . "
30 I said I 'd come down again tomorrow night and come up the house for an hour er take him up the
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