Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] him [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worse still , an injury kept Sure Sharp idle for the rest of his second season and it was only last year that Hills eventually got him back into action . |
| 2 | It was hardly a secret that Gallieni , no admirer of Joffre ( who , among other things , had stolen much of the honour due to Gallieni for the victory of the Marne ) , wanted eventually to pull him back to Paris in the largely administrative capacity of a CIGS , while placing the executive command of the armies in the field under de Castelnau . |
| 3 | She had obviously forgiven him now for all those cruel but necessary things he had said when he dropped her the year before . |
| 4 | Botham had the first six wickets before Marshall and Baptiste held him up for while , Marshall being lucky not to be on the wrong end of a legendary catch when Don Topley , a groundstaff boy who went on to play for Essex , brilliantly caught him one-handed on the square leg boundary , only to put one foot over the rope . |
| 5 | It was a year since her wedding , and on that bright cold morning her unspoken hope was to win over her husband 's family and so persuade him back to her . |
| 6 | He had the door open and his back to her when , her brother 's hat obviously catching his eye , he halted , stretched out a hand to it , then turned to where Leith , antagonistically-expressioned , stood , obviously wanting him out of her flat . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd only loan him out for someone like you , Travis . |
| 8 | The carer gently levers him forwards by placing her hands behind his seat and swivelling his hips sideways and forwards . |
| 9 | Fans perhaps remember him best in Carry On Doctor as the hapless Dr Kilmore , who is found in compromising positions with nurses . |
| 10 | He jerked him to his feet , and separating the thin wrists he held , twisted them together again behind the boy 's back , and so thrust him painfully before him along the passageway to the staircase . |
| 11 | The mailed hand in his kept hold firmly enough to draw him down to his knees as its owner sank back into the turf . |
| 12 | His 69 Test wickets cost 38.72 each , and against England he took 28 wickets at 43 — expensive , but good enough to put him high on the list of all-rounders . |
| 13 | I was lucky enough to knock him out in the first round . |
| 14 | Enough to keep him ketone-free with single-figure blood glucose levels most of the time , at as near ideal body weight as possible and avoiding hypoglycaemia . |
| 15 | Theodora gently steered him back to the house and set him in a deckchair on the south-facing terrace . |
| 16 | It was true that she had literally brought him back from the dead . |
| 17 | But she 'd obviously brought him round to her way of thinking . |
| 18 | In the latest they were called to the home of a man in his early 20s in Frenchgate , Richmond , but found they needed more equipment so took him back to the Richmond Fire Station and released the cuffs with a hacksaw and vice . |
| 19 | A boyfriend came with her , rather unkempt , so keep him out for the time being at least . |
| 20 | Reg looked at least three divisions better than anyone else on the park , and many of us thought it incomprehensible of ‘ Bencey ’ to literally drag him off after only five minutes . |
| 21 | Having watched and assessed the track record of some young officer , the middle-ranking detectives will perhaps put him forward as a candidate , and I have watched as potential members were admitted only after a series of phone calls had ensured their acceptability to the department . |
| 22 | Worthless character had now run foul of the law and was willing to take one final payment , enough to get him out of the State , and out of her life for ever . |
| 23 | Say a well-preserved sixty-four , highly sophisticated , speaking at least three languages , enough to get him out of trouble in most countries , and with a select if scattered network of friends and colleagues all across the Middle East , to lend him a hand if required . |
| 24 | The negative side of all this was ben Eliezer 's polemics against straight-faced , over-serious rabbinism ; against those whose understanding of God 's nature was austere and unfatherly ; those who , while seeking to elevate the Most High , merely put him out of touch with his own children ; debarred them from his welcoming presence by a system or learning that became ‘ frivolous ’ in its intensity : not that its perpetrators could be frivolous : black was their colour , even as severity was their posture — as becomes the frozen-in-soul . |
| 25 | If he fixed a price with the buyer , and the buyer asked for Modigliani 's address , the painter was likely to give away his work at a lower price or offer it as a present if the purchaser was shrewd enough to take him out for a meal and a few drinks . |
| 26 | Mid-way through the scene , his anger at the taking of his wallet by one of the policemen is apparent in the disjointed nature of his outburst , but his turn peters out timidly as " MAN 3 gently pushes him back into the chair " ( p. 67 ) . |
| 27 | There are times , however , when even that motivation is not enough to push him on to success and the Spartathlon is the perfect example . |
| 28 | Is it important enough to drag him out of bed ? ’ she asked sarcastically , amazed at her inner strength . |
| 29 | After a heart-to-heart talk , she had gently ordered him home for the rest of the week , and since that time they had been friends in a reserved sort of way . |
| 30 | Richard 's achievement of the throne necessarily brings him out into the open , where fraud and concealment are of no use and force alone can preserve him . |