Example sentences of "[verb] him [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would have liked to order him from the kingdom , send him trussed across the border with a curt note to his arrogant king . |
| 2 | Er , I mean , we have met him , once or twice , but that 's as much as I can say , and it 's been er su such a span of time , that I do n't even know now , whether I would recognise him walking along the street . |
| 3 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 4 | Happily , my finally getting to meet him coincides with the release of one of Morrissey 's great records ( they seem to alternate quite evenly with duff ones ) , so there 's no awkward rub between the fan 's loyalty and the critic 's ‘ responsibility ’ to the ‘ truth ’ . |
| 5 | Eight days later , Scott received an official letter approving the design of the India Office and instructing him to proceed with the working drawings . |
| 6 | he continued to teach at Chelsea School of Art , and has also taught at the Royal Academy Schools since 1975 when Peter Greenham invited him to teach in the Life Room . |
| 7 | Friends invited him to apply for the Readership in Geometry at Gresham 's College , and a wealthy London merchant offered him £10,000 to take his daughter in marriage . |
| 8 | He invited him to come into the cottage out of the wet . |
| 9 | And he invited him to come to the Mayday parade to see for himself . |
| 10 | But if I was going to have to disillusion the boy , I thought it kinder to do it personally than by letter , and I invited him to come to the studios to see the programme and have a drink . |
| 11 | ‘ They went out looking for him and reported him missing to the police at 3.30am . |
| 12 | Keen mountaineer Thomas Hargreaves , 39 , left to go on a day 's hiking in an area frequented by grizzly bears last Thursday , but friends only reported him missing at the weekend . |
| 13 | I urge him to go to the railway stations each weekend and to get the newspapers that are handed out free of charge . |
| 14 | He had to report to the headmaster at four o'clock , and was taken there by force by Foggerty who caught him racing for the school gates when the bell went . |
| 15 | Paul looks better , I seen him rushing down the road at great speed to catch the train , not looking as white as he was a few months ago . |
| 16 | Terry Terry we 've been keeping him waiting on the line a long time good morning Terry . |
| 17 | The ‘ plot ’ has him searching for the lost chord , which is about as banal as you can get , but the contributors look interesting George Harrison , Charlie Rich , Betty Wright , John Sebastian , Rufus Thomas and Billy Swan are among them . |
| 18 | John 's wife Clare has to stand outside the stable on a crate with Milton 's tail over the top of the stable door and pull it from there , while John has him twitched at the front end . |
| 19 | His reputation as a hard man — he had picked up a conviction for GBH — had won him work on the bouncer circuit and the title ‘ King of the Bouncers ’ . |
| 20 | Many expect him to emerge from the rubble as the undisputed leader of the French greens . |
| 21 | Erm I went in the mill to get some wood and noticed this young man and , I think I told you , I found him smoking in the , in the Porsche . |
| 22 | They found him slumped against the steering wheel |
| 23 | We found him huddled on the floor of a makeshift hospital in Bardera . |
| 24 | In the morning Tom found him huddled under the bed . |
| 25 | 1966 found him guesting with the amazing Captain Beefheart on The Magic Band 's first album of psychotic psychedelic blues , ‘ Safe As Milk ’ . |
| 26 | The postman eventually found him canvassing on the High Row and handed over the State secrets there and then ‘ I was very impressed , ’ says Fallon . |
| 27 | The workhouse master was called to Connolly 's cell and found him lying on the floor . |
| 28 | Christine called out to him and found him crying with the bottle of poisonous carbolic acid still in his hands . |
| 29 | I came down when she called me and found him standing in the living-room with a look of distaste on his face as he looked round at the overflowing ash trays , the dirty grate , the pile of chair cushions tumbled in the middle of the floor . |
| 30 | There was one terrible day when she came into his surgery and found him sitting beside the gramophone playing Soldiers of the Queen with tears pouring down his face . |