Example sentences of "to get him [prep] " in BNC.

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1 For the modern-day tour player , who relies on certain clubs being able to get him over certain yards , the yardage chart is indispensable .
2 oh cos Robin Day was really trying to get him with this nuclear thing
3 And he would expect it to get him off the hook .
4 ‘ I ca n't remember riding for Jonjo before , but it would be great to get him off the mark and this horse certainly has a bit of a chance , ’ smiled Willie who is closing fast on another century .
5 He was pulling him , trying to get him off me — he threw him — he just threw him at the bed — I knew he was all right , he were screaming but I could n't — they were both screaming , Cathy and Gary both , and he got me by the throat .
6 Milton was developing a certain respect for the Colonel 's ability to get him off the main point of the interview .
7 I brought him it , erm , a lunch box with a flask in , I said , look this flask you suck it like a straw , so get him to take that everywhere with him cos then he can have that , then he , cos you said you wanted to get him off the bottles , cos you put the straw in that
8 And if I do n't have quiet now you 'll probably have to get him for me .
9 ‘ Twenty-four years old he was when I found him in the provost 's prison in Paris , and paid his fine to get him for my own , him and that foster-brother of his whom you know well . ’
10 He wanted to confide in O'Hara , to get him on their side , but he did n't want every Tom , Dick and Harry knowing their business .
11 I think Mr. Mendez wanted to get him on his way before he had time to change his mind ; before he spent another night staring at the ceiling and counting all the reasons why he should n't go to Contention .
12 Er I felt , I 've been after Danny for nearly twelve months to come see and not been able to get him on the night I want him the only night he was able , was available was I think it was one night when we had something else on I ca n't remember what it was .
13 The lifeboat crew administered first-aid to the fisherman and despite the problems they managed to get him on board their vessel and return him to shore .
14 Be entrusted to get him on time .
15 you just need to get him on his own away from the crowd
16 He gave it a few more seconds to get him through the next traffic signals and then killed it again .
17 ‘ In the old days they 'd have thumped enough into him to get him through his exam .
18 His hunger was however strong enough to get him through that , along with the slice of ersatz brown bread .
19 And how are we to get him past the gates , with the town in this ferment ?
20 I 'm going to get him up Monument Hill . ’
21 I struggled to get him into bed and he started to do deep breathing exercises , which he knows I ca n't stand when I 'm trying to get to sleep .
22 She put everything into a carrier and took this out to the car with his overnight case , and then she came back to get him into his shoes and his coat .
23 The only option , as far as the doctor was concerned , was to get him into the local hospital where he would be well looked after and out of sight for the time being .
24 I 've been giving him artificial respiration , and I think he 's going to be all right , but we ought to get him into shelter as quickly as we can .
25 ‘ Perhaps she did it , to get him into a jolly big row .
26 They would not normally have dreamed of attempting to get him into or out of the house except under cover of darkness ; but now there was no certainty that they would have even one night of grace .
27 Even the dunce might come away from school with a phrase or two — — and the learned have sometimes gone to extraordinary lengths to get him into and out of their systems .
28 ‘ The problem with Andy is that he has played so rarely we have yet to get him into our pattern of play .
29 to get him into a home .
30 no , he 's hard to get him into his suit trousers
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