Example sentences of "[verb] him [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've pursued him down the disappearing paths of my own psyche . |
| 2 | so I phoned him back the next day , ah he 's in our Glasgow office today so I phoned the Glasgow , he 's on the phone , I said that 's okay I 'll call back . |
| 3 | What 's turn it over I mean it might start I du n no it let , let him down the other morning as well ! |
| 4 | Five minutes later Breeze was escorting him up the winding flagged path . |
| 5 | He motioned Karlinsky forward and with a generous flourish directed him up the three steps on to the small platform in front of the Ark of the Law where a lectern had been placed . |
| 6 | For some reason he remembered old Doyle , the gardener , dead now for thirty years , leading him up the same pathway round to the back door and into the kitchen for the mid-morning cup of tea . |
| 7 | ‘ How long will you be staying with us ? ’ he queried when she handed him back the completed card . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I give him back the open paper . |
| 10 | Massingham followed him up the narrow uncarpeted stairs . |
| 11 | She followed him up the large curved staircase and decided that even if this was for one night only , she would be happy . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I had to lay him off but I had every intention of bringing him back the following season . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She jangled a ring of keys , opened the door and led him up the bare , creaking stairway which climbed steeply out of the hallway . |
| 17 | I laugh and push him up the last step . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He thanked me , and I gave him back the royal Elphberg ring . |
| 21 | The shabby ghosts of the Forster coterie waft out once more to pool their romantic gossip ; Forster himself shuffles forward to complain that Joe 's doings with one brawny menial have so put him off the lower classes that he has been obliged to travel first rather than third-class on a railway journey , and once again the air is full of that peculiarly spiritless twitter about guardsmen , homosexual tea parties and cure for pubic lice . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | For a moment there was nothing to do but let the shabby old SE haul him up the last stretch , so Lambert actually relaxed and momentarily enjoyed his peace . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Harsh words led to action , and Haston despatched him down the public lavatory stairs . |
| 26 | There were plenty of other boys to follow him down the good physician 's route to Fitzwilliam Square . |