Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] him [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had obviously forgiven him now for all those cruel but necessary things he had said when he dropped her the year before . |
| 2 | It was true that she had literally brought him back from the dead . |
| 3 | But she 'd obviously brought him round to her way of thinking . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They had not expected him back before one o'clock . |
| 6 | She had not expected him home for at least another hour . |
| 7 | She 's just got him out of prison after making all that money and going through all that shit for him , he finally comes home , and all he wants to do is watch the match on the telly . |
| 8 | He looked , she thought , as though someone had just kicked him hard in the stomach . |
| 9 | ‘ Just run him down with your car , ’ suggested Nigel . |
| 10 | Mr , oh well , we 've already appointed him so at least we do n't have to alter the outcome . |
| 11 | I think we 're just gon na have to let him moan I would n't mind , but until last weekend , he never give a dickie bird about going to sleep I think it was that came in and set him off she should 've just left him on to it instead of trying to do it herself |
| 12 | However , although these disanalogies were fundamental , Darwin 's theorizing had not taken him out of the causal , lawful , deterministic Newtonian universe , into one as irreducibly acausal and absolutely probabilistic as is sometimes thought implicit in quantum mechanics . |
| 13 | Knowledge of him was so slim that the magazine Private Eye even suggested mischievously that the Department of Energy computer might have mistakenly selected him instead of another man of the same name . |
| 14 | It was the first time that Kirov had ever seen him out of uniform . |
| 15 | Not only did Brown Owl go on living at Longreen and being their Brown Owl ; the Pack won an unexpected new friend in Sir George Phillips , who , when he heard how they had saved the plane 's pilot from disaster in the bog , suddenly turned out to be not ‘ crabby ’ at all , as Mr. Gordon had always made him out to be , but told them that they could use the Longreen Park meadow for just as long as they liked as a reward for their bravery . |
| 16 | Neville Southall 's talent has always set him apart from most of his rivals . |
| 17 | She was aware that , even standing there , rolling up the sleeves above his tanned , muscular arms as he pondered the problem before him , Ross still possessed that sinister stillness , the iron self-control that had always set him apart from any one else she had ever known . |
| 18 | The Campbells steamer his mother had once taken him on for a day trip to Ilfracombe . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't think that 's ever put him off in the past , ’ replied Daphne . |
| 20 | But on this particular morning it was taking him longer than usual to kindle the cheeky spark that had always singled him out from the rest . |
| 21 | But the dynamic left-back has since proved him wrong by moving into the England reckoning with his performances for Kevin Keegan 's side . |
| 22 | We have now got him down to 10 pints and a bucket of chips . |
| 23 | Once they must have been dead level , but not for long It was Student Cross that had really swept him out of her reach . |
| 24 | Ladbrokes had quoted Francois Boutin 's colt at 40–1 but have now taken him out of their list . |
| 25 | Not only had we beaten him on the ridge , but without cars we had unwittingly beaten him back to the hotel . |
| 26 | It meant that Ince , who again succeeded in filling the void left by the absence of Robson , and Phelan could hunt down Keane and eventually run him out of the game . |
| 27 | But it has n't given him much of a clue about setting up a restaurant . |
| 28 | She hoped she had n't let him down in any way . |
| 29 | Leonard had even met him briefly in 1949 , but this meeting at McGill was the one which quickly developed into a strong and mutual respect , a lifelong friendship . |
| 30 | Among the celebs busting to catch a glimpse of Nick 's end-of-the-pier nostalgia show were CLING POPPIE , JOHN from the NED 'S , SUEDE drummer SIMON , PAVEMENT , SEAN HUGHES ( cor , have n't seen him out for ages ) , ALAN and DAVE from the ROCKING BIRDS ( Hey ! |