Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [conj] [verb] him [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quelling an urge to run from the sanctuary , to seize the prince and bring him back before it was too late , she fell on her knees . |
| 2 | But you do the trick and get him out ? |
| 3 | Mr Jarvis grinned and , as she picked up the squirrel and took him over to the recovery cage , he followed and stood watching as she settled her patient down . |
| 4 | I tell you what we 'll do , we 'll try to find someone on the way who knows the counter-spell and send him back to wake the Gnomes up . ’ |
| 5 | With an anguished whimper she gave up the fight and kissed him back with a fervour born of all the long , lonely nights she 'd spent without him , her arms snaking up round his neck to pull him closer still . |
| 6 | He stepped back , pausing to think , but the more he tried to invent reasonable explanations , the more he came back to the obvious truth : someone had put out the light and locked him in . |
| 7 | One might be forgiven for saying that the purpose of all this power , conventional and nuclear , is deterrence : Soviet might is not to be used to strike the enemy but hold him back . |
| 8 | And that was the poor old man he was just just about away so they sent for the ambulance and took him down to Forfar to They used to call that the poor house , I do n't know what they call it now but it was the poor house in those |
| 9 | I took this bandage off and put a cold compress on , making a proper patella dressing , got the ambulance and got him off to hospital , and put in a Report about this broken gas-lid . |
| 10 | Well often I might see somebody waving out by the gate frantically trying to get in where he 's put one of his different size padlocks round the gate , the back gate and the front gate , and often if we need to feed the cat he 's padlocked all the different padlocks round the kitchen cupboards erm we 've been unable to get the cat food out , so we 've had to go off in the car and bring him back from a friend because he 's the only one who knows which key goes with which padlock to undo all the cupboards . |
| 11 | ‘ I must pay tribute to them for both Dominic Quinn from Banbridge and John Bailie from Lurgan told me to take my time with the horse and bring him back only when I felt it was right to do so . |
| 12 | In the screen of language the words that make him up are no more than some amongst many , a detail in the pattern , as a grotesque might be in early painting , or the straight man in a comic duo . |
| 13 | I do n't know how this happened , but er erm a piece of wood or something fell and hit him on the back of the neck and woke him up and he woke up from the vivid dream of being at the time of the French Revolution , of being lead up the guillotine and having his head chopped off . |
| 14 | I got hold of him by the scruff of the neck and took him along to the police box and rang up for the wagon . |
| 15 | Sikes seized the boy 's collar through the window and pulled him back out into the garden . |
| 16 | To struggle was only to weaken himself ; he could not displace the weight or break the grip that held him down . |
| 17 | All the while the cameraman is walking backwards the assistant cameraman walks behind him , holding him by the waist and steering him round children 's bicycles and feed-troughs . |
| 18 | In the house , Ellwood took the old man by the shirtfront and pulled him round in a circle , then round again , as if they were playing a manic version of Ring o' Roses . |
| 19 | Hands tugged at the German and helped him up on to the narrow ledge . |
| 20 | Alan dabbed hurriedly at him with the towel and picked him up . |
| 21 | ‘ Then we 've got to find a way into the cab and get him out like that , ’ said Masklin . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , Mr Algernon ! ’ exclaimed Mildred with relief , and before he had time to hide away under a stone , as he usually did , she shot a hand into the water and scooped him up . |
| 23 | We got to the water and put him out but he had virtually no clothing left on his back , it was all burnt away . ’ |
| 24 | His father splashes deep into the water and pulls him out . |
| 25 | The first glimpse of Father Philip had made his heart turn and contract in him with the pain of the memories that tugged him back towards Aber , older memories than the bitterness and anger that had driven him away . |
| 26 | She turned off the gas fire — must save the Calor gas ! — and the lights and followed him out onto the landing , locking the door behind her . |
| 27 | He bent to pick them up and I pulled him into the alley and smashed him up against the wall . |
| 28 | With the rough timbers pushed wide I got behind the bullock and sent him on to the opening . |
| 29 | I tell you , one night , if we knew he was coming , we would wait for him round the back and pitch him down the falls ! ’ |
| 30 | Before the startled merchant could think of a reply , Cranston had taken Athelstan by the elbow and steered him out into the sun-baked street . |