Example sentences of "[vb past] him [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gardener , Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke and I pursued him down the garden and into the bluebell wood . |
| 2 | The Pay Sergeant had thrust a Railway Warrant into his hand and told him where the baggage had been dumped . |
| 3 | He personalised it , he told him exactly the benefit of escalating premiums , and he could n't say anything other than yes , because it was what he wanted . |
| 4 | ‘ I feel like I 'm in prison and I do n't understand the crime , ’ she told him once the preliminaries were over . |
| 5 | Rachel quickly told him how the heart attack had happened . |
| 6 | When the boy told him how the police had made the arrests , the Prince called the division commander , whose men had arrested the twenty-four , to listen to what the boy had to say . |
| 7 | His feet seemed hardly to touch the ground as the wind drove him up the slope . |
| 8 | And at last , and most imprudently , he married an ambitious tyrant who drove him up the career ladder , and when things began to get too much he set to work on a toy church with pastor , pulpit , congregation , organ and so forth . |
| 9 | The judge said during the raid Munn stood in front of the counter and the man who had broken down the screen handed him out the £6,460 from the teller 's cash drawers . |
| 10 | the other the black moment you know th the bit where I I put in the bit where the he broke his leg and the mortgage was gon na be foreclosed on him I mean that builds up to the black moment which is a necessary part of the story and then he got out of it erm because the house relented and showed him where the copper kettle was that was worth the money . |
| 11 | ‘ He suggested it could have died another way , ’ Small recalls , ‘ so I took out a knife , skinned it on his desk , and showed him where the fox 's teeth had punctured the flesh . ’ |
| 12 | They left her in there , wedged among the wooden boxes and brooms , and bric-a-brac , barely able to move one way or the other , for the next two hours , while they stripped Patsy naked , covered him all over with shoe polish , and locked him out the front of the house for a while to see what it was like being a naked little ‘ nigger boy ’ in Westfield Drive . |
| 13 | Her mind in a whirl , her body in an equally unstable condition , Robbie followed him up the hillside . |
| 14 | She followed him up the room , repeating her sympathy and when that did not hold his attention , she began to apologize for her lateness in coming to speak to him about the tragedy . |
| 15 | ‘ Come round the side , ’ he said , and I followed him down the tarmac path which was about a yard wide , between the school building and a six-foot wooden fence which isolated the first house in the terrace . |
| 16 | The headlights of another car swung across the central reservation and followed him down the Friedrich Engels Strasse . |
| 17 | The German turned round obediently and the orderly followed him down the wire . |
| 18 | Chen returned the man 's bow , then followed him down the hallway to another door . |
| 19 | The second policeman managed to get a shot off in panic , but before he could take aim properly , one of the skinheads smashed his shoulder with a baseball bat and knocked him down the aisle steps . |
| 20 | ‘ The guy that was sober told him to get a grip and pulled him out the shop . |
| 21 | Surface worker Peter Moran , 40 , lowered him down the shaft but then stopped the winding gear , leaving him dangling half-a-mile from the bottom of the pit . |
| 22 | I merely led him up the garden path ; he is perhaps still wondering whether there be an anatomical difference — let us say from the vertical to the horizontal — in respect of a love-making position . |
| 23 | Then one of them led him up the garden path to a shed . |
| 24 | Then one of them led him up the garden path to a shed . |
| 25 | Athelstan led him down the cold , darkened passageway and into the small chamber . |
| 26 | The butler led him down the hall to a veneered door which he opened . |
| 27 | I asked him why the kid did n't use his own name , and he said maybe he thought Ben MacLean sorta sounded better . |
| 28 | ‘ I asked him why the floorboards did n't float . ’ |
| 29 | I asked him why the hell he wanted me to stay the night when he was going out later , and he just shrugged his shoulders and said he was in a funny mood and did n't know what he was saying . ’ |
| 30 | I ran across to him and asked him where the hell Nicola was . |