Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] him [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I have n't the heart to drive him back to the warren . |
| 2 | ‘ Someone in his financial position could easily have got a doctor 's certificate to pull him out of tournaments but to his credit he never even considered it . ’ |
| 3 | Laughton is in a hole and the players as professional sportsmen have a responsibility to pull him out of it . |
| 4 | Sinn Fein failed in an attempt to co-opt him on to the council on Wednesday night . |
| 5 | This consisted of enrolling one 's child in a private playschool , which sent a car to pick him up in the morning and deposit him back on his own doorstep in the late afternoon . |
| 6 | McAllister awoke to find him above her again , put her arms around his neck to draw him down to her , but he shook his head . |
| 7 | She had half a mind to put him back in his box and sit on the lid . |
| 8 | Vacation time Francis arranged for him to caddy at the Lyford Cay club to keep him out of trouble . |
| 9 | Adams benefited from the tailenders ' intention to belt him out of the ground , taking three of the last five wickets for final figures of four for 43 from 21.4 overs . |
| 10 | ‘ But it is the owner 's view that Jimmy does not suit Cool Ground , and he says he prefers a jockey who sits still and allows the horse to take him along to his fences . |
| 11 | CHRIS WADDLE is staying at Sheffield Wednesday , despite a £3 million bid to take him back to France . |
| 12 | Theda opened her mouth to blister him out of the torment that consumed her … and paused , arrested by the look in his face . |
| 13 | He asked the coach to fit him up with a pair of boxing gloves . |
| 14 | He was hauled back to New York and given that column to keep him out of any more mischief . ’ |
| 15 | While I would insist on the centrality of Noel Coward 's sexuality to the patterns of meanings that I see in Brief Encounter , I would not wish for one second to hold him up as any kind of gay martyr . |
| 16 | Despite great pressure to allow a rescue plan to airlift him back to a natural habitat in cold Arctic waters , the Turkish authorities decided to let Russian experts take charge of him . |
| 17 | You think the girl knocked him off , and then hired some help to get him out of there ? ’ |
| 18 | Otley and I held on to him while Nigel searched for a large piece of wood to haul him out with , and in the meantime we had a close-up of the lush vegetation of the riverside : buttercups , forget-me-nots , dog roses and honeysuckle and the shy little water avens modestly hiding its peach-coloured face . |
| 19 | I dashed out down the street to the pub to get him round to the cottage before Mr Vulcan changed his mind . |
| 20 | He had laid by his sword , but he had a dagger still upon him , and managed to draw it and slash through the folds that smothered him ; and Norbury and Erpyngham and half a dozen others of his own people came plunging and splashing through the storm to help him out of these ominous grave-clothes . |
| 21 | From there he was handed on to Bloomsbury House , where Elaine Blond agreed a one-off payment to fit him out for another job . |
| 22 | The fascination of this book is in its clear-sighted debunking of the myths which many have fondly mistaken for historical truth : that Columbus was really aiming for Asia , that he and his sailors thought the world was flat , that Queen Isabella pawned her jewels to finance his trips and came down with her husband to wave him off from the docks , or even ( a fondly-cherished delusion ) that these were journeys of discovery rather than intentional acquisition and expansion of the Spanish empire . |
| 23 | I always regarded Ellen 's attitude towards Grimes as one of sympathy and understanding and a desire to help him out of his difficulties . |
| 24 | Even if it was n't quite enough finesse to keep him out of the loony bin . |
| 25 | But Mr Donnellan claimed they wanted him to admit a lesser charge to get him out of the college quietly . |
| 26 | Now my Lord the defendants say of course , that they were never asked by the plaintiff to get him out of the contract so that the duty er never arose . |
| 27 | ‘ I stayed up all night to cheer him on to in the presidential election . |
| 28 | It was also good to have our ‘ old ’ general manager with us for the day giving everyone the chance to bring him up to date with their news . |
| 29 | The Goblins wait until the enemy are close by , and then push the Fanatic out towards the foe , giving him a good shove to start him off in the right direction . |
| 30 | Nails had hoped Biddy would have foregone her offer to meet him out of school the next day , or at least be late so that he would have a chance of escaping her clutches , but when he came out she was there outside the gate on her motor-bike , and there was no escaping . |