Example sentences of "[prep] him [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even as he did get his bearings a great tree swirled towards him out of the night and a rook he never saw rose up in alarm , cawing darkly away into the storm . |
| 2 | Quiss heard rapid footsteps approaching through the racket , and ahead of him he saw two small scullions running towards him out of the mist . |
| 3 | Tony surprises an oncoming motorist by assuming a position that leaves his legs on the gravel road but takes the rest of him down among the lake-side vegetation . |
| 4 | They had Nelson Mandela giving a rally at two in the afternoon on the steps of City Hall or wherever it was , and at three they had a colour photograph of him out on the streets . |
| 5 | ‘ I just needed to see you ! ’ she said with a brittle smile , walking past him on to the hot beach , feeling the tears burn her eyes . |
| 6 | Without comment , she marched past him out into the sunlight while she still could . |
| 7 | Steve was a new face to me but Paul I already knew from playing football against him down at the Lillie Road recreation ground . |
| 8 | The boy looked round behind him up at the cliff . |
| 9 | What else was there to do ? she thought miserably as she squelched behind him up to the bathroom . |
| 10 | He chooses Northamptonshire in 1792 and we journey with him up to the present and then into the future . |
| 11 | He was curious to see the minister , although he made Willie Hamilton come with him up to the gallery , so that he himself would not be noted by the dragon of a wife or her daughter . |
| 12 | like to look after my mother , er she was one , and she died now erm she died two years ago , I think she was one of the first to go and er , the other one they fetched him out of the street the chap then they corresponded with him up to the war but , but after that , they , I do n't know whether they stopped writing because of the war , I do n't know , but they never , never got in touch with them never again so |
| 13 | ‘ Okay , ’ she walked with him down to the first landing . |
| 14 | I jumped up and ran with him down to the shore . |
| 15 | And when supper was ready he bade his knights take their seats , and he took the leper by the hand , and seated him next himself , and ate with him out of the same dish . |
| 16 | He motioned to Lissa and she caught his soundless urging and went with him out of the room . |
| 17 | Kathleen emerged from the cloakroom with her things just as he was walking past , and she went with him out of the door . |
| 18 | He posted the detective constable he had with him back down the path to join his colleague , armed with instructions to repel all attempts by anyone , however senior or armed with whatever authority , to go anywhere near the body unless he , Sergeant Black , personally accompanied them . |
| 19 | Without Stannard , Essex failed to convert any of 14 short corners in the final and with him back in the team , they can go purposefully to Cannock on April 17–18 . |
| 20 | Men , as he tried to pull himself to his feet , something big and heavy and square cannoned into him out of the dark and plunged off after the wizard . |
| 21 | It would be like running away from him back at the basement . |
| 22 | She turned away from him back into the big sitting-room , wondering how she was to bear this fresh indignity without giving her innermost secret away . |
| 23 | She was a vibrant and passionate woman who had revealed the intensity of her love for him up on the moors . |
| 24 | I held the door for him on to the street . |
| 25 | Marie had been waiting for him out in the car-park . |
| 26 | Her head throbbed as she walked beside him up to the château , and she was fighting a churning nausea deep within her . |
| 27 | Had he been hoping for Doreen to arrive and say she was no longer interested in the large Hastings home and that she 'd be willing to live anywhere with him — even to work beside him out in the wilderness ? |
| 28 | When I spoke to him back in the winter Jim Fleeting indicated that he was driven by fear , the fear of failure . |
| 29 | It had loomed over him out of the spectral mist , more horrible by far than the ghoul brats he and Cleo had encountered in the forest . |
| 30 | She let the clutch in and drove towards the road ; she waved at him out of the window . |