Example sentences of "he [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Campbells steamer his mother had once taken him on for a day trip to Ilfracombe . |
| 2 | As they lifted him on to a stretcher and then on to the jeep the blanket slipped away from his shoulders revealing his red hair and a very white arm covered in freckles . |
| 3 | If he had hoped that a row might spur him on to a direct , hands on approach to murdering Elinor , Henry was disappointed . |
| 4 | He was approached by the Huddersfield directors early in 1921 and the offer spurred him on to a determined effort to prove his innocence in the Leeds City affair . |
| 5 | The dream-man called Duvall seized Jimmy around the neck in a way which was surely too painful to be a dream and yanked him to his feet , throwing him on to a desk . |
| 6 | At last , with Greg 's help , they managed to get him on to a stretcher to which he was firmly secured with nylon strapping so that it was virtually impossible for him to move , then the stretcher was carefully lifted down from the jig and into the waiting ambulance . |
| 7 | It took four of them to lift him on to a trolley and take him away for observation , with the police riding shotgun at his side , and then things gradually returned to normal — or as normal as they could given the extraordinary circumstances . |
| 8 | ‘ Sold him on without a vet 's certificate , eh ? ’ the Archdeacon snuffled through his nose . |
| 9 | do you urge him on like a cox ? |
| 10 | Julie eyed him suspiciously for a moment . |
| 11 | Three months in America in 1914 , raising funds for St Enda 's and mixing with hard-line Irish-Americans , set him single-mindedly on a revolutionary course . |
| 12 | slew him in as a lifer at San Quentin . |
| 13 | One brandy would make him in to a number . |
| 14 | When I got home , I kept him in for a while , then , ashtray at the ready , let him loose for another try . |
| 15 | Andy Roxburgh will check on Hendry before the World Cup qualifier with Portugal and is poised to bring him in for a match Scotland must now win . |
| 16 | She thanked him and waited while David invited him in for a cup of tea . |
| 17 | You invited him in for a glass of sherry to ask him if you could borrow his bicycle , and I came too . ’ |
| 18 | " I think it would be safer to keep him in for a bit longer . " |
| 19 | If Daddy was home , she 'd invite him in for a coffee and a clean-up . |
| 20 | I asked him in for a break . |
| 21 | So they kept him in for a cat instead , but Jessie wanted a , then Jessie , she could 've just love a fluffy white , so . |
| 22 | Osric gets 12lb from Beech Road and 6lb from Cruising Altitude , which puts him in with a chance . |
| 23 | Reagan had tried to meet the families once or twice , the first time in a school library in Chicago Heights ; the relatives furiously demanded help from him , boxing him in with a semi-circle of school chairs . |
| 24 | Tying meant fastening him in with a feeding tray . |
| 25 | Branson took him in at a glance . |
| 26 | The lean hand gripping his arm thrust him in at a door in the long encrustation of buildings that clung to the curtain wall on the sunny side , where the best light fell and the day lingered longest . |
| 27 | The Harvard Planning Office had brought him in on a dispute between the track coach and the builders of a new gymnasium , concerning the dimensions of the new indoor track . |
| 28 | ‘ I need to see Mr Patterson , ’ I said as if I was letting him in on a big secret . |
| 29 | Yes , well Tony Primmer 's one of the riders from Eastbourne that we managed to pick up because we can get him in on a low point average . |
| 30 | Mike Power and Clive Thornton pointed him in the right direction and sent him in like a terrier down a rabbit hole . |