Example sentences of "he [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Much credit is due to the quick thinking of his jockey John Buckingham riding in his first Grand National , in steering him over to the wide outside and popping him through a gap . |
| 32 | He carried him over to the great oak chair and stood him on it . |
| 33 | She took hold of his hand and led him over to the small bed . |
| 34 | Burney took him over to the grey slab in the middle of the room . |
| 35 | No wonder they 're sending him over to the mad house for th ’ electric . ’ |
| 36 | Attempts were made to bring Erich Honecker , the former East German party and government leader , to trial on charges of giving the " shoot-to-kill " order to guards preventing illegal border-crossings , but the Soviet Union , where Honecker and his wife were , refused to hand him over to the German authorities [ see pp. 37828-29 ; 38110 ; for June sentencing of Harry Tisch see pp. 37967 ; 38298 ] . |
| 37 | We tied his arms behind his back and handed him over to the next village headman we encountered . |
| 38 | Subsequently , he was often seen scratching at his groin on the set , and , guessing the nature of his problem , director Nicholas Ray marched him off to the nearest chemist for a healthy dose of crabocide . |
| 39 | His family packed him off to the great University of Nuln where they hoped his energies would be dispersed in academic study . |
| 40 | Two medics arrived and carried him off to the First Aid Post . |
| 41 | And she 'd take him off to the second-hand bookstall which specialized in the politics of the left , or to attend a useful meeting , and stand around with banners . |
| 42 | Cris tried to help , of course , but as soon as the ambulances came they sent him off to the local hospital , and that 's where he is now . |
| 43 | It would not be past Zhukov 's greed and cunning to try and fob him off with the wrong pie e of film . |
| 44 | One of Alejandro 's sons playing back rode him off for the backhand and hit it up the field to his brother who dribbled it a few yards , then sliced it to Perdita . |
| 45 | If anybody put him off at the 17th it was me jumping up and down . |
| 46 | The Goblins wait until the enemy are close by , and then push the Fanatic out towards the foe , giving him a good shove to start him off in the right direction . |
| 47 | Nutty stopped Midnight and brought him into the centre and Nails thought he was going to get a rest , but she immediately sent him off in the other direction . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | The moment Owen had come in , however , he had waylaid him and taken him off behind the potted palms . |
| 50 | They struggled up the steps , through the entrance hall , rested in the main hall , then took him up to the first floor . |
| 51 | The alternatives would seem to be handing General Noriega to the US forces to face trial on drug-trafficking charges , which the Vatican has said it will not do , or giving him up to the new Panamanian Government , which has already declared it ‘ has enough on him to put Noriega away for life ’ . |
| 52 | ‘ 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 . |
| 53 | To bring him up to the required standard he had to go to a boarding preparatory school , which he loathed so much he escaped over the wall and hitchhiked home . |
| 54 | Erlich heard his instructions to the lady who had brought him up to the third floor . |
| 55 | No doubt this ‘ concession ’ was to soften him up for the next examination . |
| 56 | Perhaps he thought that if he made a success of the concert party , word would get around amongst show business that here was someone to keep an eye on , and his big chance might come ; that someone important in the music world might come up to him with a contract in his hand and sign him up for the next ten years as a successor to Sir Malcolm Sargeant . |
| 57 | Could it be that someone took him up on the extravagant wagers he offered constantly during the election and that he 's been forced to three ball his monkey suit to meet his gambling debts ? and then there was the letter in Saturday 's Darlington and Stockton Times from stop-at-home Nick ThorneWallis , Labour chairman of Darlington council 's transport committee . |
| 58 | Erm can you push him up on the standard bearings ? |
| 59 | He arrived at the Great Northern station half an hour earlier than he had been instructed and immediately reported to the sergeant who had signed him up on the previous day . |
| 60 | But when they brought him up into the higher reaches of the Warden 's Tower and shut him into his new prison he was stupefied to find it all they had claimed . |