Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] him [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The early starts were a disadvantage , but Charles had minimized that by staying with Miles and Juliet and having the car pick him up at six . |
| 2 | It was in his adopted position of right-back that Paul gained two England Under 21 caps and he is one of only a handful of players who have appeared for the Palace in ten post-war seasons , while his 319 games for the club place him firmly in the top five all-time appearances for us . |
| 3 | We watched the small boat carry him out to the middle of the river , where the great black prison-ship stood high out of the water , held by its rusty chains . |
| 4 | As the guards take him back to his cell , he often starts to cry . |
| 5 | Warr is not readily allocated to any single faction , though his suspicion of all governments , his eventual antipathy to land tenures ( ‘ slavish ties and badges upon men ’ ) , and his vocabulary place him close to Gerrard Winstanley [ q.v. ] and the Diggers . |
| 6 | His 259 Palace appearances keep him high on our all-time charts while his 90 League goals still remain the club record in the post-war era . |
| 7 | He looked so frail as I watched Gavin help him out of the car , followed by the cat basket . |
| 8 | When the Russkies dig him out of the snow tomorrow he 'll say he knows nothing about our operations in Helsinki and I 'm going to make sure he 's not lying . |
| 9 | Irina said to Ludens , ‘ For heaven 's sake get him out of here ! ’ |
| 10 | Seton 's body was quickly reinterred and , despite Sir James ' protests , Corbett insisted that his escort accompany him back to the Abbey of Holy Rood . |
| 11 | In both fields he was an individualist , and in both his successes mark him out as an artist of power and originality . |
| 12 | The BBC broadcast him live from a mass meeting in Glasgow . |
| 13 | Because Boo is locked away , it makes his character very mysterious and at first it 's hard to know if the rumours spread around about Boo only coming out at night to hunt for his dinner , eating squirrels and peering in through people 's windows are true , but gradually as we read more into the book , we are given clues to suggest that he is not the monster , people make him out to be . |
| 14 | Mr McCleods staff expect him back at his Glasgow office tomorrow afternoon . |
| 15 | Julian Dicks wo n't be amused if West Ham leave him out against Portsmouth today . |
| 16 | People call him up for art advice from all over the world . |
| 17 | However Christ is understood , as people take him up into their culture , or make of him what they will , they know him to be male . |
| 18 | Such forces carry him away from the mainstream of Caribbean life into the tributaries of a distinct black youth culture . |
| 19 | ‘ It took us some time to trace Mr Maxwell since his business interests take him all over the States . |
| 20 | Many locals see him almost as a hero . |
| 21 | At first glance only his sword and the shoulder straps attached to his shirt mark him out as an officer . |
| 22 | Some correspondent will probably now write to tell me that Brunson is bravely suffering from some life-threatening condition , but he delivered his questions between swallows with the aplomb of Peter Lorre squealing to Humphrey Bogart as the police drag him off to certain death in Casablanca . |
| 23 | Now at the end of his life the Danes send him back to the sea in an unmanned funeral barge laden with treasure . |
| 24 | But Mitchell wo n't condone the taking of life and soon it seems both good guys and bad guys want him out of the way . |
| 25 | His last LP , Tunnel of Love , a touching , low-key meditation on matters of the heart , sidestepped the quandary , but these new LPs find him rather at sea . |
| 26 | And , although I 'm not so bitchy as to suggest women want him only for what they can get , nine times out of ten it 's probably the truth . ’ |
| 27 | Local Liberal Party records bear him out in his assertion of this fixity of purpose and he would appear to be correct in his estimation that : |
| 28 | The central character is a young BBC World Service journalist who , in search of a big story , finds himself adrift in a world of moral deprivation as his investigations lead him deep into the rotten heart of the city . |
| 29 | The contemporary historians Asikpasazade and Nesri place him firmly amongst the ulema of Mehmed II , both saying that " he came to the fore " in his sultanate . |
| 30 | His platform photographs show him sometimes in a Blackshirt uniform like an army battledress , sometimes in a black suit buttoned tightly across his broad chest and a high-necked pullover , microphone clutched in his right hand , and left pushed into his jacket pocket . |