Example sentences of "he [adv] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was after noon on the following day before we got a rope round Father and managed to haul him slowly out of the chimney . |
| 2 | They brought him in after dark to their hearths , and answered his questions as well as they could ; and soon they spoke of Master Harry Talvace , drawing up the image of him slowly out of the well of memory . |
| 3 | She pulled Midnight 's head up off the grass , gathered him together and drew him delicately on to the garden path . |
| 4 | ‘ Only yesterday the Trunchbull caught a boy called Julius Rottwinkle eating Liquorice Allsorts during the scripture lesson and she simply picked him up by one arm and flung him clear out of the open classroom window . |
| 5 | Her friend came in and said ‘ Reach for the sky ’ and pretended he had a gun and she played along with him right up to the time they left together . |
| 6 | a history which exists eternally in Jesus , who was born in poverty and humility in a manger , who dies abandoned on a cross , and who calls us to follow Him right through to the morning of His resurrection , with its message of hope . |
| 7 | His behaviour may be such as to demonstrate that his reversion has taken him right back to the use of the ruthlessness which preceded civilisation . |
| 8 | As he expected , this path , newly uncovered by the rockfall , led him impossibly back to the tunnel where Urnst had dropped the glove . |
| 9 | Berowne had asked him in out of the cold to share his meal . |
| 10 | I went to my father and releasing his hands from their grip on the edge of the trolley , eased him down on to the carpet . |
| 11 | The criminal replies , ‘ Have a look , mate ! ’ as he throws the heavy bag straight at the bobby , knocking him backwards on to the pavement . |
| 12 | Her hand came out and she thrust him backwards on to the settle . |
| 13 | He proceeded to remind her verbally as she followed him sheepishly out through the dining-room to a wide archway that led to the terrace , though she did n't need this painful reminder of the way they 'd given in to their wild passion every evening in Seville . |
| 14 | Instead , feeling as though with each step she took she was treading on her dreams , destroying them forever , she followed him mutely back to the sofa and seated herself where she had been before . |
| 15 | Nicholas sent him off back to the tunnel , and glanced upwards . |
| 16 | The sailors carried him carefully on to the ship , and took him to the Captain , who said : |
| 17 | Hands tugged at the German and helped him up on to the narrow ledge . |
| 18 | ‘ Let's get Superintendent Dalziel , ’ said Pascoe , swinging the car in a turn which took him up on to the pavement . |
| 19 | She helped him up on to the seat , then sagged down beside him , forearms resting on her knees , head bent , dizzy from the exertion . |
| 20 | Bones obliged him in everything he asked , even shaking him tenderly back into the saddle when he flew up round his ears or slipped tailwards . |
| 21 | I tried to pull him bodily out of the cupboard but could hear his agonies even through the gag . |
| 22 | His mother put him straight back in the saddle . |
| 23 | Driving with difficulty through torrential rain while thunder and lightning crashed overhead , Jack found himself in a narrow West Country lane , realising that he had missed the turning that would have brought him back on to the main road . |
| 24 | Harry looked into his glass as if he could see for miles and Charles nudged him back on to the subject . |
| 25 | He did lose the lines on more than one occasion and threshed around helplessly through pauses that seemed eternal , until the A.S.M. 's quiet voice in his ear managed to get him back on to the right track . |
| 26 | I tried to get him back on to the subject . |
| 27 | A tilt to the left and it had taken his wing and was driving him back down to the ground ; correction to the right and it was at him that way , turning him round and out of control . |
| 28 | Owen sent him back down to the cells to think about it . |
| 29 | Sikes seized the boy 's collar through the window and pulled him back out into the garden . |
| 30 | Two of his attackers followed him and caught him and were about to drag him back out into the street when Zeinab came down the stairs . |