Example sentences of "[verb] him [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Morley Street is one of 11 entries for the Kingwell Hurdle at Wincanton on Thursday , but Balding is likely to avoid taking on Champion Hurdle favourite , Muse , there and send him straight to the Festival .
2 Now at the end of his life the Danes send him back to the sea in an unmanned funeral barge laden with treasure .
3 Send him back to the Army .
4 A parent refused to be bound over , saying : ‘ When I send him out of the house in the morning to go to school , I do n't know what he 'll be doing all day ’ .
5 ‘ In one case a parent refused to be bound over , saying : ‘ When I send him out of the house in the morning to go to school , I do n't know what he 'll be doing all day ’ .
6 Even if he did win , the owner would buy him in after the race , so that Boardwalk would have paid back a small fraction of his training costs .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 He even uses words which come from the Old Testament Book of Daniel and they recognised that and here they 've got this pathetic looking individual in front of them threatening to destroy the temple , threatening to this , that and the other and here you 've got this power Sanhedrin who ca n't recognise him really as the Messiah and yet there 's a ring of truth about some of things that he 's talking about .
10 I want him here until the end of his career . ’
11 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 .
12 I said that I thought it would be alright and made arrangements to meet him again at the church on the following Saturday afternoon to discuss details .
13 He wrote round to fifteen builders on 22nd March and , with what today would be regarded as incredible naïveté , asked them to meet him together at the Office of Works on 24th March .
14 At a PEN Canada benefit event in Toronto last month , Salman Rushdie was cordially embraced by the Ontario Premier Bob Rae , the first government leader to meet him publicly since the Iranian fatwa .
15 He grappled with Slatter , tearing him away from the motionless body .
16 Jacques Devraux had not troubled to make him known to the senator , but while his father made a final check of the baggage truck , Paul Devraux had patted him affectionately on the shoulder and introduced him to them as " the great all-purpose Annamese genie Ngo Van Loc , who 's houseboy , camp boy , chauffeur and indispensable general assistant to the humble Devraux family . "
17 Richardson , too , made a mediocre start being one over par for his first six holes , but then birdies at the seventh , ninth and 10th moved him on to the leaderboard .
18 ADRIAN MAGUIRE moved upsides reigning champion Peter Scudamore at the head of the jockeys ' table when a double aboard Calapaez and Mr Felix moved him on to the 32 winner mark at Plumpton yesterday .
19 It was a glimmering he had , but no more than that , and she cast him down from the height of her knowledge .
20 His wife Mable scolded him out of the house on a bright May Saturday afternoon in the late 1920s .
21 And lead him out to the Waiting Room where he 's allowed to linger and holler for a while before we ferry him back to the night .
22 Then she drew him on to the covers and pushed him gently back .
23 It seemed like a minor miracle when she found herself seated within touching distance of the small group of musicians , until she realised that Rune was well-known here , not only by the management but , as the current number drew to a triumphant close , to the players as well , as they drew him on to the low rostrum and surrounded him with much back-slapping and laughter .
24 She drew him away to the corner by the iced water machine .
25 A hand caught his and drew him quietly into the room .
26 The story of a man compelled to search for a pure virgin , read one evening while his mother was mending stockings , left him ‘ haunted by spectres ’ whenever he was in the dark ; other stories drew him out to the churchyard , where , with his imagination overflowing , he would race up and down through the great avenue of elm trees , and act out among the docks , nettles and rank grass whatever he had been reading .
27 Culshaw , who knew Karajan better than any of these armchair pundits , noted that since Karajan had never been interested in interpretation for interpretation 's sake — which perhaps helps explain why his readings often outlast those of more ‘ personalized ’ rivals — he naturally diverted his attention to new projects , musical , technological , scientific , logistical , until circumstances or new thinking drew him back to the central repertoire that he had recorded earlier , with other orchestras , other technology .
28 It was almost a treasonable thought , and Denis was relieved when Boxer , observing that the tractor was a ‘ queer-looking contraption ’ , drew him back to the present .
29 He stood there , his face awash with blood , his swollen mouth hanging open , but still conscious , still awake enough to see his younger brother 's eyes as they fixed his own and lined him up for the coup de grace .
30 Although he agreed , it was obviously difficult for Adam to let go of the reins , as Lissa discovered when she arrived at Lynx some time later to find him still on the premises .
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