Example sentences of "and [verb] him [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least now he 's surrounded by people who encourage and inspire him , who kick his arse , help him write songs and drag him out of the isolated , uncreative lethargy he easily slips into . |
| 2 | She took hold of his hand and led him over to the small bed . |
| 3 | McGowan took Jed by the arm and led him over to the cardboard box . |
| 4 | The guy let him carry his own case and led him through into the concourse where the English driver from the Embassy pool was waiting . |
| 5 | Senga took her brother 's hand and led him out into the hall . |
| 6 | Two policemen forcibly took her arms from around her son , and led him out to the car to join his sister . |
| 7 | They beat him up in the alleyway , tied his hands and led him off to the Marshalsea . |
| 8 | Esther was saying , returning to the guest list , recalling scores not settled a quarter of a century ago : ‘ Yes , the very man , he 's a something or other in the DES , he 's a very important chap now , you ought to have a go at him , ’ Liz replied , and as she spoke the doorbell rang , and there was the first guest , on the dot of two minutes past nine o'clock , tall , thin , grey , anxious , clutching a bunch of yellow roses , ex-priest turned analyst Joseph O'Toole , standing stranded on the black and white marble tiles , not knowing where to turn , how to divest himself of his coat , to whom to deliver his roses , a lost man , gazing mildly at the unexpected butler , waiting for the arrival of familiar Liz Headleand , who advanced upon him , took the roses , embraced him , restored him , and led him in to Charles , Alix and Esther : a quarter of an hour earlier she had predicted the time of his arrival accurately , to the minute , and now smiled triumphantly as she effected the introductions , a smile of complicity in which Joseph O'Toole , who was acutely aware of his own punctuality problem , was able with a pleasant relief to share . |
| 9 | A well-informed horseman simply had to grasp the horse 's head firmly and give it a sharp turn and back him out of the area that had been contaminated by the jading substance . |
| 10 | He refused to talk about his businesswoman wife who often followed his rounds wearing bright , tight dresses and cheering him on at every green . |
| 11 | I will give him sharp orders , he thought , and bring him up on a short rein ; and I will see him come to terms , and kiss the hand that curbs him . |
| 12 | The final humiliation came when Branson and Draper flew out to Munich to see Oldfield perform in concert and bring him up to date on the current situation . |
| 13 | We call upon the BBC for a radical change of policy and demand programmes which build character instead of destroying it , which encourage and sustain faith in God and bring Him back to the heart of our family and national life . |
| 14 | In the end I had to go up to him and bring him back to the fire . |
| 15 | You see we 'll keep good hold of him , and bring him back to you bound , if need be . |
| 16 | In 1686 the English envoy to the States General , Bevil Skelton [ q.v. ] , and some of James II 's army officers attempted to kidnap Peyton and bring him back to England , but failed , and the affair caused a diplomatic incident . |
| 17 | Could I say to the minister and bring him back to the real world about regeneration . |
| 18 | Well often I might see somebody waving out by the gate frantically trying to get in where he 's put one of his different size padlocks round the gate , the back gate and the front gate , and often if we need to feed the cat he 's padlocked all the different padlocks round the kitchen cupboards erm we 've been unable to get the cat food out , so we 've had to go off in the car and bring him back from a friend because he 's the only one who knows which key goes with which padlock to undo all the cupboards . |
| 19 | As well as capturing Irwin from Elland Road , they picked up defender Andy Linighan for £45,000 and sold him on to Norwich for £350,000 — and they got an extra £150,000 when he moved to Arsenal for £1 million . |
| 20 | Edward was glad to escape from Shelgate Road : his father seemed to undermine his self-confidence and made him out to be ‘ several kinds of fool ’ . |
| 21 | In a way , though , that limited him and made him out of touch with modern medicine . |
| 22 | The Head gaped , and passed him on to Sylvester . |
| 23 | I took this bandage off and put a cold compress on , making a proper patella dressing , got the ambulance and got him off to hospital , and put in a Report about this broken gas-lid . |
| 24 | Well , I just told Ruth not to be a silly girl and got him off to Nurse . |
| 25 | Choking , he shifted one hand from his enemy to claw at his own throat , and instantly the fist that was strangling him heaved him roughly back from the edge and flung him down in safety at the foot of the wall . |
| 26 | Any second now it would break and throw him back into the river . |
| 27 | Get hold of Topper and send him round to Rhoda Brocklebank . |
| 28 | At the New Contemporaries Exhibition in 1961 he and his wife bought Hockney 's Doll Boy for £40 and invited him round to tea — ‘ black hair , crew-cut , frightfully shy , I arrived late . |
| 29 | For it is that negative role that hampers his performance and holds him back in his development . |
| 30 | So er I went down the Red Lion in Willenhall and fixed him up for a night 's dosh , did n't I , and the driver and then er I worked on , worked on and on and was able to get these er done for him to take back to fit this ship . |