Example sentences of "he [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case , you should put him on to the defensive by maintaining a series of very strong attacks delivered from the correct distance . |
| 2 | ADRIAN MAGUIRE moved upsides reigning champion Peter Scudamore at the head of the jockeys ' table when a double aboard Calapaez and Mr Felix moved him on to the 32 winner mark at Plumpton yesterday . |
| 3 | ‘ I just needed to see you ! ’ she said with a brittle smile , walking past him on to the hot beach , feeling the tears burn her eyes . |
| 4 | It seemed like a minor miracle when she found herself seated within touching distance of the small group of musicians , until she realised that Rune was well-known here , not only by the management but , as the current number drew to a triumphant close , to the players as well , as they drew him on to the low rostrum and surrounded him with much back-slapping and laughter . |
| 5 | The president had silenced the vociferous strike-leader by bringing him on to the ruling body . |
| 6 | If there was no work there , the tramping artisan was fed , given a bed for the night and a few pence to see him on to the next town on the official tramping route . |
| 7 | I remember on one occasion the four of us went down to Glastonbury Fair where he sang , but due to a balls-up over the sound and the electricity , they did n't put him on until the next day and that was at about 5.00 in the morning when the sun came through . |
| 8 | Swing , he screamed at himself as his arms crashed into the pine , not holding , but the weight of his body already carrying him on in the next arc of his trajectory . |
| 9 | But had n't he thought that Spiderglass would save him somehow , plug him in to the endless dance of electrons ? |
| 10 | Vologsky punched out a sequence on the computer panel , which automatically locked him in to the local frequency . |
| 11 | They 'd piled him in with the dead , and it was only later a naval ensign noticed him twitching . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | We try and slip him in on the sly when we think we 've got them hooked . |
| 14 | Jack filled him in on the scanty information they had already obtained . |
| 15 | And Steve obediently went off , taking with him a jar of Marmite in a garden trowel as a substitute for coal in a shovel , and he stood out there on the front porch in the cold listening to the silence and looking at the stars , waiting for them to let him in on the last stroke of Big Ben on the radio : a faint , feeble echo of some once meaningful ritual , though what it had meant or now could mean nobody there knew or had ever known . |
| 16 | A bell tolled , the sign for Compline , and Lady Amelia led him down through the darkened cloister out across the grass to the church . |
| 17 | ‘ Take him down below the three flights of hurdles , ’ Tremayne said , ‘ then bring him up over them at a useful pace . |
| 18 | Lance Buckmaster , our esteemed Minister for External Security has asked me to attend him down at the ancestral home , Tavey Grange on Dartmoor . ’ |
| 19 | And he blames AC Scotland for the sabotaging of his plans to raise a second round of finance by stockbrokers in Europe who let him down at the last minute . |
| 20 | I threw some of the water from the bowl over my own face and drank the rest for I was thirsty , then followed him down to the Great Hall . |
| 21 | ‘ Okay , ’ she walked with him down to the first landing . |
| 22 | At first she could n't find him anywhere but finally she tracked him down to the big barn . |
| 23 | There were hundreds of screaming women outside and we had to whisk him down to the underground car park and shut the gates behind him . |
| 24 | And you know , so often you and I , we have questions that we want to bring to the Lord , if only was here in person , if only we could sit him down in the front room , how many things we would have to ask of him ! |
| 25 | Now if there should be a hole , or a thin place , inviting him through into the plenteous cover of the orchard , and the solitary shed in its far corner … |
| 26 | Take him through into the private suite and get one of the stewards to look after him . |
| 27 | ‘ It was supposed to be in my hair , ’ she told him as she followed him through to the spacious kitchen , deciding honesty was the best policy in the circumstances . |
| 28 | Horne should have increased Everton 's lead when Ebbrell 's ball put him through in the 62nd minute but he delayed too long . |
| 29 | McGowan took Jed by the arm and led him over to the cardboard box . |
| 30 | Surely the man had enough sense to take him over to the other corner , where aged Chevrolets lay wearily beside battered Valiants , motorbikes and scooters . |