Example sentences of "and [verb] him [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I got to the spot , I groped beneath the water to try and find him and drag him up , but could feel nothing . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He let Coffin go up and drag him out . |
| 4 | Grimma caught him and laid him down as gently as she could . |
| 5 | He had never been with a man who wanted to take him out at three in morning and stand him up against a wall in a dark street and jerk him off , not because there was nowhere else to go , but for the pleasure of doing it like that ; he had never done it again and again with one body . |
| 6 | She took hold of his hand and led him over to the small bed . |
| 7 | McGowan took Jed by the arm and led him over to the cardboard box . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She jangled a ring of keys , opened the door and led him up the bare , creaking stairway which climbed steeply out of the hallway . |
| 10 | Two policemen forcibly took her arms from around her son , and led him out to the car to join his sister . |
| 11 | Senga took her brother 's hand and led him out into the hall . |
| 12 | Then my father went in and put his headstall on and led him out . |
| 13 | They beat him up in the alleyway , tied his hands and led him off to the Marshalsea . |
| 14 | Tabitha took his other hand and led him in . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Kathleen put her arm round the man 's shoulders and led him in . |
| 17 | But let smaller pictures of God satisfy us and squeeze him out , and we are back on the easier road to cheap grace and nominal faith . |
| 18 | I was depending on Francesca to look after Thornton , and give him lunch and introduce him around , since she 'll be working with him . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But two days later , Hannele Malling returned to London , and sought him out . |
| 21 | He refused to talk about his businesswoman wife who often followed his rounds wearing bright , tight dresses and cheering him on at every green . |
| 22 | She laid her cheek contentedly against his chest , and hugged him back . |
| 23 | It would be better to concentrate on finding a way into the Workshops and getting to Nuadu and bringing him out . |
| 24 | In the worst of three public falls , he ‘ crashed over like a tree ’ at the 1936 Democratic convention , but aides rushed to hide him and pick him up . |
| 25 | And then if I please to reach him a hand and pick him up again , he shall know and acknowledge to whom he owes it , and walk more humbly thereafter . |
| 26 | But Neil he was gon na go down to Tesco 's but he is , Ipswich , ca n't get down here , so he ca n't sort of travel and you know what the hassle of having to take him and pick him up . |
| 27 | Yeah , but he could probably do a two till ten shift , but the two would be alright , but you would n't want to go out ten o'clock at night and pick him up . |
| 28 | So I went to bed and I had to get up and get dressed and go and pick him up |
| 29 | Go and pick him up . |
| 30 | Well you can drop him off and pick him up . |