Example sentences of "[coord] [vb base] him [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Or she might drown him in the bath or push him under a train .
2 Or push him off the ball or something
3 In the corner of another carriage there sits , his face screened by a magazine , some lonely soul who has no one to bid him adieu at this end of his journey or welcome him at the other .
4 If you decide at the end of the day the thing to do is to pick up this kid and run like hell for somewhere you can gain , wave for help , or put him in the car and drive like mad to the hospital , then you might just do that , even though it breaks all the golden rules of first aid
5 While the child is in care no-one may cause him to be known by a new surname or remove him from the United Kingdom without either the written consent of every person who has parental responsibility or the leave of the court ( s33(7) ) .
6 She would n't help him ; he was weak and unsteady , but she would n't take his arm or guide him to the bed .
7 He would quite willingly lay aside his own business in order to take Hayward to a party , or wheel him in a park .
8 The water was rising all the time , and we had to seal him inside a waterproof bag and drag him through the sump . ’
9 Then when he 'd softened him up he would take him up to the sale and introduce him to the dealer he was touting for — on commission , of course .
10 Trust you , Dwight , to pick a winner , and pick him before the rest of us have heard of him !
11 He eventually let go of me and I had to go the bottom of the baths and bring him to the surface , take him to the side and get him breathing again , and I was considered a failure for that .
12 Next morning , she smiled at him over breakfast , drinking him in , for she must toil alone all day and bring him from the clay .
13 It looks as though John McVeir was a party to Moir McIlchenich 's murder although he was never charged with it , and we can only speculate as to what the three accused said before the Baillie on 16th May which induced the authorities to apprehend John McVeir and bring him before the Baillie on 22nd May 1699 — did they " split " on him ?
14 But , as he rode , a terrible curiosity began to rise up in him and prick him like a gimlet .
15 Although he clearly wants to walk off the boat , the ambulance crew scramble on board and clamp him onto a stretcher , so firmly that I wonder if they think he might punch them .
16 Then bundle up your husband and boyfriend and send him to the woman whose name appears at the top of the list , you will receive 16,337 men — and one of them is bound to be a hell of a lot better than the one you already have .
17 Give him a mug of cocoa and a big kiss and send him on a month 's leave .
18 I often have to get up with Graham , carry him into the living room and nurse him into the living room and nurse him on the armchair .
19 I often have to get up with Graham , carry him into the living room and nurse him into the living room and nurse him on the armchair .
20 ‘ I went to the front of the house and saw the dogs catch up with him and knock him to the ground .
21 Cut him out and slip him into the stocking so he peeps out of the top .
22 Then when he stops , get out the car and grab him by the neck then throw then I .
23 Literally , Vitelli will kill her father and replace him with a son born of her .
24 Gregory of Tours could at last write a coherent narrative of a barbarian ruler and provide him with a chronology .
25 He was originally held in Safi Prison , where he developed diabetes in 1988 , but was then transferred to Marrakech where his family lives , and so could visit him regularly and provide him with the food necessary for his diabetic diet .
26 But a combination of factors , including a high proportion of broken or at least deteriorating homes and single-parent families , an absence of parent-child contact due to migration and possibly compounded by the necessity of devoting excessive time to earning a living and , as I will argue shortly , a distorted appreciation of the parent 's function vis-à-vis education crystallize to release the black youth from the influence of his parents and jettison him into a world in which his peers , with whom he shares the common experience of being black in a white society , are the dominant forces .
27 I 'll cut him up small and fry him for the kids ' breakfast .
28 ‘ If that man hurts my sister , I 'll find him , and kill him like a dog . ’
29 ‘ I will find that man , and kill him like a dog . ’
30 And kill him in the shell .
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