Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] him [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mid-way through the scene , his anger at the taking of his wallet by one of the policemen is apparent in the disjointed nature of his outburst , but his turn peters out timidly as " MAN 3 gently pushes him back into the chair " ( p. 67 ) . |
| 2 | Richard 's achievement of the throne necessarily brings him out into the open , where fraud and concealment are of no use and force alone can preserve him . |
| 3 | This strategy marks a structure of repetition in Sartre 's text : each time he poses the question of how there can be totalization of History without a totalizer , he retreats to a more limited example whose unity is already evident , but which in the end only brings him back to the original question again . |
| 4 | Iago soon brings him back to the ‘ foul ’ image : ‘ I will chop her into messes — cuckold me ! ’ |
| 5 | Mark … the jockey that rode him to victory at Cheltenham has retired from the saddle but still rides him out on the gallops and is now helping to tarin him |
| 6 | Murder of Duncan briefly shocks him back into some half-remembered humane responses , though these quickly dwindle again in renewed surfeits of horror . |
| 7 | It is this mixture of compliance and argumentativeness which not only bores and irritates Belville but actually drives him back to his old pursuits — drinking and lechery . |