Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] him [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed to me to be at the mercy of waves that tossed him back and forth between then and now : the real-and-actual and the desired . |
| 2 | But that apprehension was not physical cowardice , rather the fear of defeat and subsequent demotion from big-money fighter to poorly-paid has-been that drove him on . |
| 3 | Davis 's struggle to overcome the racial prejudice that held him back was backed by Sinatra . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But it was the ‘ romance and advance ’ of the pottery industry that lured him back and in 1968 he got the job as works manager at Midwinter , shortly afterwards merged with J & G Meakin . |
| 6 | He walked on , climbing the flight of stone steps that brought him up into the Strand itself . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There 's one thing , best shot 's he played in that innings down at Hove and it was a short boundary , it was a good deal shorter , in fact this one we have here at Lord 's in this match , is a six over cover off good old Lester Piggott who was steaming downhill there at Hove all arms and legs and eased him over for six . |
| 9 | Simultaneously , she reached between his legs and jerked him off . |
| 10 | This man 's joy at his team 's win greatly tempered his reaction at being jabbed in the chest by a vigorous old Irish American , but even he had to retaliate when Uncle Mick pulled his cap down over his eyes and shoved him back in his seat . |
| 11 | He tucked Pike into the front passenger seat and strapped him in . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 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 | And instinctively she reached out her arms as if to circle his neck and draw him down into an imaginary embrace . |
| 15 | They placed a lavatory chain around his neck and hoisted him off his feet . |
| 16 | He had feared he might choke when she stuffed chunks of it into his mouth and held him down , her hand sealing his lips , until he swallowed . |
| 17 | And in the afternoon of the fourth day his guards suddenly trooped into his cell and ordered him up and out with them . |
| 18 | Where , I gather , Dhani put him in a Buddhist monastery and nursed him back to health — he 'd known Dhani at school and Cambridge . |
| 19 | Lydia had always collected curious specimens for her parties , frequently foreign : South Africans who could tell her what it was really like over there , Nigerians in brilliant robes , an Asian boy with almond eyes who had stayed for a month until Gerald heard the scurrilous talk and kicked him out . |
| 20 | I declined with thanks and waved him on : I had only two more miles to walk to Shiel Bridge and could n't get any wetter and did n't want to repay his kindness by spraying water all over his car . |
| 21 | Mr Davies put his friend in his car and took him back to his flat in Highfield Road and called for an ambulance . |
| 22 | Haverford got up early , sat in the garden jotting away until , as often as not , Don Marco arrived in a small rattling car and took him off on an unknown errand . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In 1955 Shelby raced a works Austin-Healey in the Carrera Panamericana — and came close to assuming the title of the late Carroll Shelby when a huge accident destroyed his car and put him out of circulation for several months . |
| 25 | Whenever he tried to go home the old woman would throw a magic ball of thread into his boat and draw him back to shore . |
| 26 | She put her arm round his shoulders and hustled him out and upstairs before he recovered himself . |
| 27 | Kathleen put her arm round the man 's shoulders and led him in . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'll see you at the weekend , then , ’ Leith said lightly , and was once more wanting to do something of a pugilistic nature to her employer when , just as though he lived there , he went to the door with Travis and saw him out . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |