Example sentences of "[verb] he [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've pursued him down the disappearing paths of my own psyche . |
| 2 | What 's turn it over I mean it might start I du n no it let , let him down the other morning as well ! |
| 3 | Five minutes later Breeze was escorting him up the winding flagged path . |
| 4 | ‘ How long will you be staying with us ? ’ he queried when she handed him back the completed card . |
| 5 | His plight was clearly desperate ; the slightest motion could hurtle him down the remaining few yards of slope and over the lip into the quarry . |
| 6 | I give him back the open paper . |
| 7 | Massingham followed him up the narrow uncarpeted stairs . |
| 8 | She followed him up the large curved staircase and decided that even if this was for one night only , she would be happy . |
| 9 | But stolid stonewalling makes for poor copy and dull viewing , and eventually they let him go , although even then a few of the younger and hungrier among them followed him down the wide staircase and out into Piazza Matteotti , hoping for a belated indiscretion . |
| 10 | Mr Field believes he would win easily , and once returned to the Commons would ask the parliamentary party to give him back the Labour whip . |
| 11 | ‘ I had to lay him off but I had every intention of bringing him back the following season . |
| 12 | In the eyes of Louis , his near-drowning had been an act of self-emasculation , a loss of face tumbling him down the social scale to a level little higher than a peon 's . |
| 13 | She jangled a ring of keys , opened the door and led him up the bare , creaking stairway which climbed steeply out of the hallway . |
| 14 | As Sister and Nurse Robins are swigging coffee with that drag Jones , I took him down the short cut through Eyes and shoved him into 15 . |
| 15 | Leonora escorted him up the massive oak staircase to his room at the back , wished him a good night 's sleep and walked slowly back along the landing . |
| 16 | He thanked me , and I gave him back the royal Elphberg ring . |
| 17 | All of them were big men who had drawn lots for the honour of the occasion , and carefully they lifted Artai and carried him up the short flight of steps to the summit of the plinth . |
| 18 | Corbett bowed , withdrew , and spent the rest of the time kicking his heels in an antechamber before a servant imperiously summoned him up the great staircase and ushered him into a brilliantly decorated room . |
| 19 | Harsh words led to action , and Haston despatched him down the public lavatory stairs . |
| 20 | There were plenty of other boys to follow him down the good physician 's route to Fitzwilliam Square . |