Example sentences of "he [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd of kept him in a bit longer |
| 2 | The priest led him down a passage , knocked and opened the door and entered the room . |
| 3 | He was nearly always right , too , so very seldom did anyone get the chance of really taking him down a peg or two . |
| 4 | Daniel struggled but was no match for the two louts who , having kicked and beaten him , pushed him down a grassy bank towards the canal . |
| 5 | ‘ If I wanted to bring him down a teeny-weeny heat-seeking missile would do the job very effectively . |
| 6 | He would have to bring him down a level . |
| 7 | Soon the path led him down a very steep hillside . |
| 8 | Wycliffe followed him down a carpeted passage to a door at the end , a small room overlooking a regimented back garden with a substantial Swiss-type chalet in the middle of the lawn . |
| 9 | ‘ I must say the old trousers he wears let him down a little — but at the wedding he 'll wear his best suit . |
| 10 | Well you 'll have to put him down a bit more carefully than that . |
| 11 | The men led him down an alleyway , stinking from dog urine and heaps of excrement . |
| 12 | 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 ! ’ |
| 13 | Harsh words led to action , and Haston despatched him down the public lavatory stairs . |
| 14 | ‘ I mean , when I saw him down the prom he did n't look the type at all — smart , respectable-looking lad . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I saw him down the bus station this morning . |
| 16 | The gardener , Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke and I pursued him down the garden and into the bluebell wood . |
| 17 | In the eyes of Louis , his near-drowning had been an act of self-emasculation , a loss of face tumbling him down the social scale to a level little higher than a peon 's . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | We made the cut in 1970 for my first British Open with Tom , but a bad last round put him down the field . |
| 20 | His plight was clearly desperate ; the slightest motion could hurtle him down the remaining few yards of slope and over the lip into the quarry . |
| 21 | The German turned round obediently and the orderly followed him down the wire . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's been disappointing that sometimes his emotional tension has dropped him down the placings . |
| 23 | There were plenty of other boys to follow him down the good physician 's route to Fitzwilliam Square . |
| 24 | Joy and Alan came back , and it was decided that we would wait until dark and then bring him down the fire escape ; luckily there was one right next to his room . |
| 25 | As Sister and Nurse Robins are swigging coffee with that drag Jones , I took him down the short cut through Eyes and shoved him into 15 . |
| 26 | Anna moved towards the bus steps and saw the driver looking behind him down the length of the bus , waiting . |
| 27 | The butler led him down the hall to a veneered door which he opened . |
| 28 | She sweet-talked him down the line , worming her way into his heart , and talking money . |
| 29 | When at last Hazel had got him back to the ditch , he refused at first to go underground and Hazel had almost to push him down the hole . |
| 30 | He would let her father row him down the lake and dangle out a few lines to see if a tickle of fish would tickle his mood . |