Example sentences of "[vb pp] he [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No he said , and I went over and I picked him up anyway , and sat him on , I sat him on my knee and I said we 'll just do some rhymes and I could feel him sort of going mm , mm , mm , like they do all pathetic and whiny , anyway Phyllis arrived and afterwards it was , by then he had calmed down and he was fine and I said wan na read the story now cos he missed it of course when he decided he could n't do without his car , so I said next week perhaps come without your car , I think I 'd won him over by the end but , it was a bit hairy . |
| 2 | Loads of people had let him down over the years , so I did n't want to be one of them . |
| 3 | The woman who had let him out of the darkness of the birth-cave into the light . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Actually , there 's quite a good exchange on those lines in Catch-22 , the movie — much underrated film — which is n't in the book , so Buck Henry must have written it , where Nately 's been killed and Yossarian 's been to Milo 's whorehouse to see Nately 's whore and Milo 's picked him up in the half-track and he 's saying Nately died a rich man ; he had such-and-such a number of shares in M&M enterprises , and Yossarian says — ’ |
| 5 | Had carried him off into the mountains , in this harsh summer of storms and floods ? |
| 6 | The castle 's black-cloaked seneschal had scowled darkly on the previous occasions when Quiss had tracked him down in the kitchens and asked him what was going on and what he intended to do about it ; he made dour excuses and talked of the corrosive effects of salt water and what a mess it made of his pipes and anyway materials were very hard to come by these days — What days ? |
| 7 | ‘ We 've seen him around with the Padre too . |
| 8 | I 've put the belt in for when he 's bad and I 've sewn him in for the winter . |
| 9 | It was nearly forty years since the history master had bawled him out on the pavement over there , in front of the House of Commons . |
| 10 | And when the man had arrived , Luke had offered him a glass of champagne and then shown him through to the kitchen and shut the door . |
| 11 | She was not like the Glasgow woman , who had shown him out into the street . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm going to the bathroom , ’ said Philip , putting the stupid lamp that his Mum had bought him back on the window-sill . |
| 13 | because he lives a life where material luxury has bought him out of the social expectations imposed on less fortunate people . |
| 14 | It could have been the assurance of that privacy and , perhaps , the promise of food which had persuaded him in from the cold . |
| 15 | Oh , I 've got him in at the play school you see , starts play school after Easter |
| 16 | They 've got him down at the station for questioning . |
| 17 | When at last Hazel had got him back to the ditch , he refused at first to go underground and Hazel had almost to push him down the hole . |
| 18 | If that had happened in my day , those players would have had him up against the nearest wall and sorted it out . |
| 19 | She 'd have had him back to the manufacturers for radical restructuring . |
| 20 | ‘ Th'best go down first and catch his legs when I 've helped him on to the ladder , ’ Jess told Hawkins . |
| 21 | He referred to the policy of separate development as ‘ apart-hate ’ in his first few letters , until somebody must have clued him in on the correct spelling . |
| 22 | ‘ The League should have kicked him out of the game , and the PFA have not done enough to get back the money owed to men like David Howell . |
| 23 | Harry was able to fit in only two further meetings with Alice — one when she had taken him to see the very impressive new branch of the Maison Verveine , and the other when she had invited him back to the flat to meet Jules . |
| 24 | It had dragged him back to the stairwell , had gutted and fed from him to regain its strength . |
| 25 | She had called him up from the bus station as soon as she got into the City . |
| 26 | His selkie blood called him back to the sea , though , and he became a sailor . |
| 27 | He was rewarded by the happiness which showed in Pam 's eyes , when he told her he was quite sure she had indeed called him back from the brink of death . |
| 28 | Freddie Head , rider of Pistol Packer , opined that ‘ Mill Reef was the best horse I 've ever seen ’ , and the French press compared him with the horse whose stunning victory in the Arc six years earlier had marked him out as the very best horse of the era : ‘ Comme Sea Bird II — mais plus vite ’ , raved Paris-Turf He was indeed plus vite , for his Arc time of 2 minutes 28.3 seconds set a new course record . |
| 29 | He might not have been able to dodge the water , but they 'd never pinned him down for the Instruction . |
| 30 | And Sand Table gives every indication that his trainer has laid him out with the Royal Hunt Cup in mind . |