Example sentences of "[verb] him [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he was offered a place on the Work Trial scheme — a local garage offered to try him out for three weeks , without obligation , while the Employment Service continued to pay his benefit . |
| 2 | It 'll mean seeing so much less of him , and God knows I seem to see little enough already , but being an only boy I 've felt I must pack him off to boarding-school to get some men in his life and break the apron-strings . |
| 3 | PSYCHIATRIC reports are to be prepared on an unemployed woodcutter , Brian McGregor , whose forged football coupon lined him up for potential winnings of £3,826.47 billion . |
| 4 | I understand that Border , 37 , was within one phone call of losing his job when umpire Steve Randell reported him along with fast bowler Merv Hughes for dissent in the first Test at Brisbane earlier this month . |
| 5 | I caught him up at last . |
| 6 | Knock him out fe ten seconds , no less |
| 7 | I knew he 'd fought James on it tooth and nail , and though in all honesty I felt I 'd won him round to some extent since , the prejudices remained beneath the surface of benignity , waiting only for some unwary blunder on my part to crack the surface and let them burst through . |
| 8 | Expect him back in six months . |
| 9 | He said , I 'll catch him out on this one . |
| 10 | She hoped she had n't let him down in any way . |
| 11 | He got his way in most things , had despotically guided Stephen 's life , had chosen Lyn for him , before that had picked him out of this school , pushed him into that , as soon as he could removed him altogether from academic threat . |
| 12 | He had two other wins that year , at Zandvoort and Monza , but his car let him down on other occasions when his excellent driving had put him in a race-winning situation . |
| 13 | Well , Mansell who run , won yesterday 's Portugese Grand Prix is believed to be considering several offers to tempt him out of that so-called retirement . |
| 14 | They had not expected him back before one o'clock . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , I helped him out with one scene where this Danish prince sends his betrothed Ophelia mad . |
| 16 | It it might be a help to him to have little local groups that helped him out with these things . |
| 17 | Coetzer , 6ft 4ins and nearly 16 stones , was ranked No.1 contender by the WBA and IBF until last month in Las Vegas , when Riddick Bowe stopped him in round seven . |
| 18 | He was beginning to wonder if they were n't already softening him up for some kind of a change . |
| 19 | Dozens of journalists blocked his path , almost knocking him over at one stage , and firing non-stop questions at him . |
| 20 | Frustrated but secretly delighted that I had maybe caught him out with shoddy workmanship until an old fellow from Bernera stopped to give me a lift on the way past Carlaway and showed me the right ones , just before the main stones of Callanish . |
| 21 | He got the sack , cos he got up and left his job overslept and annoyed erm Rachael because she woke him up twice and said come on you 've got to go to work , he said alright then , she , she went back to bed thinking he 'd get up and of course he were still laying in bed , I woke him up at five to eleven , said come on you 're an hour late , but when he got down there they said no it 's no good you 've got the sack , and he said well it 's your own fault then cos you were woke up twice by Rachael at nine o'clock , he had n't , he could have got up and gone to work , just idle we met him twice , it really upset him |
| 22 | Our attempts to talk him out of this merely provoked his scorn . |
| 23 | Then there was the ship 's agent who made a run for it in his car , guessing we would search his house after picking him up with some uncustomed goods . |
| 24 | ‘ I love him and will welcome him back with open arms , ’ she said . |
| 25 | Ladbrokes drastically revised their price on the Henry Cecil-trained colt , pushing him out to 8–13 ( from 2–5 ) and Coral now quote 4–7 . |
| 26 | She was always seeking him out for one of her little chats . |
| 27 | The worrying thing for other World Cup teams next summer is that , if and when Maradona recovers his best form — and he will most likely do so in June — then the rest of the Argentina side looks ready to set him up for another stupendous tournament . |
| 28 | And , apparently , they 're going to set him up in some kind of arranged marriage . ’ |
| 29 | Somewhere they 've got a , there 's a picture of him and I 've named him out of one of the photos I brought over . |
| 30 | They cut him off during televised debates . |