Example sentences of "him [adv prt] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She walked behind him down the passage to the living room and watched , smiling , as her brother and her friend hugged each other . |
| 2 | The butler led him down the hall to a veneered door which he opened . |
| 3 | She could n't face speaking to him down the wires of a telephone again , not after yesterday , and , besides , he might have cancelled their arrangement and she had n't wanted that . |
| 4 | Chen returned the man 's bow , then followed him down the hallway to another door . |
| 5 | Kisling was livid , and with the help of some friends managed to grab the sculptor and throw him down the stairwell from the seventh floor . |
| 6 | Anna moved towards the bus steps and saw the driver looking behind him down the length of the bus , waiting . |
| 7 | He had gone only a few yards however when the horse hurled him over a precipice to his death . |
| 8 | The high speed tumble kept him off a bike until February but Cardus refuses to admit to any worries about his relative lack of testing . |
| 9 | When Johnson , as we know he did , dipped into Boswell 's Hebrides Journal , its tone can not have put him off the notion of Boswell writing a Life . |
| 10 | I put him off the idea of going shopping with me . |
| 11 | My father threw his calipers away and went to Charlie Hancock the chemist , who made him up a bottle of oil from an old family recipe . |
| 12 | The car park was empty but for the elderly gentleman 's massive Ford , which was just crunching over the gravel towards the road , an old but impressive bronze Aston Martin which Charlotte supposed must belong to Gus — it sent him up a couple of notches in her regard — and the school bus , still stationary , boiling over with bored boys , and emitting a plaintive chorus of : ‘ Why are we waiting ? ’ |
| 13 | His field was bio-improvements engineering , and he had been placed in charge of some hush-hush military project that had racked him up a rep as the Frankenstein of his generation . |
| 14 | She made him up a bed on the high white divan in her living-room — not a heap of sleeping-bags and blankets but a real bed , with laundered sheets and pillows in emerald green cotton cases . |
| 15 | so he can either sleep in bed with his dad and J J or but they make him up a bed on that . |
| 16 | And I might , I think I 'll put in there , I 'll make him up a basket of goodies with erm a few telephone stamps on a card and ooh I do n't know what . |
| 17 | Here , take him up a cup of tea . " |
| 18 | Well , it 's , it 's simple that if I got up at half past six , and took him up a cup of tea at quarter too seven , and when he was around at seven o'clock , I was grilling bacon and I was frying eggs , and I hope , I do n't know whether perhaps it 's my cold , but , I , I just used to feel terribly unwell after he 'd gone , for about two hours and my legs were so wobbly , I was sitting down on the sofa , I may go back yet to cooking him breakfast if I feel like it , but , the , I mean if I can say to these chaps that , there are times when I do n't feel like doing things , well , I reckon Dave that they are so glad to be in that house with the central heating , with the twenty four hour er , er a day water , and the comfort , there not going to argue . |
| 19 | A strong performance from Lionel Kerr in the G3 Escort has brought him up the leaderboard to third overall with Ken Graham ( Toyota Corolla ) and Jon Joannides ( Sierra Cosworth ) rounding off the top five . |
| 20 | Initially they both showed signs of running a mile and denying all knowledge , but by cunningly playing on their male pride , their desire to believe they were ‘ a better man ’ than their rival , she made each one mad with jealousy of the other , and finally had her pick of which she preferred , leading him up the aisle of the Methodist Chapel well before the bulge began to show . |
| 21 | K ! sdra squinted at him up the length of the sword . |
| 22 | We was there all one Sunday with a trace-horse , pulling him up the common with his slaughter-cart : dead cows and that . |
| 23 | Hazel turned towards it and the rest began to follow him up the slope in ones and twos . |
| 24 | My mother and I helped push him up the ladder into the attic ( not easy — he was no lightweight ) , and then passed up the bucket for him to quench the flames . |
| 25 | Tom helped him into his pyjamas , carried him up the ladder on his back and put him to bed . |
| 26 | He wrote for a catalogue , and they sent him back a list of ten titles . |
| 27 | Bet you his parents and the girlfriend helped him out a bit with his decision — ‘ You join them Rovers or else ! ! ! ’ . |
| 28 | Somehow or the other , he was not sure how , she had dished him out a plate of stew and he was sitting eating it . |
| 29 | He poured him out a mug of hot , sweet tea and handed it to him . |
| 30 | They left her in there , wedged among the wooden boxes and brooms , and bric-a-brac , barely able to move one way or the other , for the next two hours , while they stripped Patsy naked , covered him all over with shoe polish , and locked him out the front of the house for a while to see what it was like being a naked little ‘ nigger boy ’ in Westfield Drive . |