Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] him [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ No buts , ’ said the man and without warning gave Charlie a shove in the chest which propelled him back into the street .
2 I had bought him a musical tie which woke him up from an afternoon nap when he rolled on to it .
3 He had a bleeper in his house which wakes him up for every call though for insurance reasons he can not join the men .
4 It is perhaps Warr 's amalgam of democratic ideals with an advanced sense of history , both past and future , which marks him out as a significant political thinker of his time .
5 The idea of service is extended to include the work that the manager does when he leaves his office , and it is this devotion to duty which marks him off from all the others .
6 There is nothing which cuts him off from the early sociologists in his basic assumptions about the importance of instincts and their interaction with men 's cultures .
7 It 's a smart move which leads him out onto a limb of high-flown verbiage , as in the charmingly titled Thinking Voyager 2 Type Things : ‘ I 'm electric with the snap and crackle of creation/ I 'm mixing up the mud with the spit/ So rise up Brendan Behan and like a drunken Lazarus/ Let's traipse the high bronze of the evening sky/ Like crack crazed kings ’ .
8 Information about a person 's private and personal affairs may be of a nature which shows him up in a favourable light and would by no means expose him to criticism .
9 When she came back from changing , her haircut was a boy 's , except that it had new-born-looking curls at the nape of her neck , which knocked him out for a bit .
10 He was high up in the syndicate , which tied him in to Truro Daine .
11 Many persons will have their own particular reasons for gratitude to him , and everyone will so warmly want to wish him well for the new place in life which awaits him back in his own native diocese of Liverpool .
12 ‘ I felt that as soon as I took over Gary had it in his mind that he was n't looking to play for England beyond the two years which took him up to the European Championships , ’ he said .
13 It held together with the engine , the rest of the fuselage separating which took him out of the major part of the fire .
14 He seemed to remember something about her , something which took him back into a happy past , before decision made his life difficult .
15 Angus Fraser is still feeling discomfort from the hip injury which kept him out for most of last season and may have to play in pain if he is to resume his first-class career .
16 Earlier this week , Salako had surgery in the US on the same knee which kept him out for most of last season and Palace are set to demand the FA pay his wages until he is fit again .
17 LUTON v ASTON VILLA Nielsen , Villa 's Danish defender , will start for the first time if McGrath fails to recover from the hamstring injury which kept him out of the Republic of Ireland team in midweek .
18 ANDERS NIELSEN , the national champion , showed no sign of the back injury which kept him out of the team event as he eased into today 's men 's singles quarter-finals at the Pilkington Glass European Badminton Championships in Glasgow .
19 The tour party was weakened when Gordon Hamilton , the World Cup flank forward , withdrew yesterday because of doubts about his back injury , which kept him out of the Five Nations Championship .
20 Unfortunately , Bob Bigg 's Palace career was greatly reduced by a badly broken leg sustained at Newport in February 1937 , which kept him out of first-team action for fully 21 months , and some of the contemporary pundits reckoned that his absence cost us the single promotion place from Division 3 South in 1938–39 .
21 India were handicapped by Prabhakar 's stomach strains , which kept him out of the attack .
22 Apart from Gatting , who is seen as a near-certainty for England 's winder tour of India , others who may come back into the international reckoning are Chris Broad , Alan Wells , Matthew Maynard and John Emburey , while Neil Foster ( another South African tourist ) might have been considered for the winter tour but for a knee injury which kept him out of the Essex side for the last part of the season .
23 Agassi was seeing a specialist in Seattle in a bid to beat the injury which kept him out of the French Open .
24 Adrian Hill , the former Cheshire match play champion from Bramhall , who turned professional last year , has also won through after an indifferent first season on the European Challenge Tour , which saw him back in 100th place in the order with earnings of just over £4,000 .
25 George stared at her and suddenly ached to get away , to take his coat and his briefcase and get into the car and escape to the haven of the Unit and work and the baby and … which brought him back to the reason for his starting to probe her feelings about the project .
26 Which brought him back to tonight .
27 He began to take her to antique shops , sought out trade exhibitions of fabrics and contemporary furniture , bought her books on design — on Bauhaus , which brought him back to his own youth , on the Viennese Secession with its decorative flights and insistence on utility .
28 It was only the dream of winning the world championship which brought him back to Williams …
29 He staged a counter-attack which brought him back into power in 1769 , but at the price of a financial disaster from which he never recovered ; money was borrowed to buy shares with which to create votes for the election of directors at a time when the value of the Company 's stock collapsed .
30 Osric gets 12lb from Beech Road and 6lb from Cruising Altitude , which puts him in with a chance .
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