Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] him [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overlooking the causal nature of meaning with respect to usage leads here to obvious circularity within the formal framework however : to is first defined as necessary to support a clausal complement with no discussion of the data which contradict this postulate ( cf She helped lift him out of the bed ; You 've missed things . |
| 2 | On each occasion , he became engaged in long disputes with local reporters , some of whom tried to jostle him out of the room . |
| 3 | When Swan heard that Harvey was at the Ministry of Transport , he tried to draw him out on the subject of motorways in Warwickshire , but the junior Minister in charge of roads said that this was not the time or place to discuss the subject . |
| 4 | Half-blinded by blood from his cuts , he put the plane into a dive and somehow managed to land the right side up — despite the appearance of a third enemy plane which tried to polish him off on the way down . |
| 5 | Sitting around in the sun all day , scoffing tons of ice cream is his idea of heaven , though he did get a bit miffed when Greenpeace tried to push him back into the sea . |
| 6 | No he said , and I went over and I picked him up anyway , and sat him on , I sat him on my knee and I said we 'll just do some rhymes and I could feel him sort of going mm , mm , mm , like they do all pathetic and whiny , anyway Phyllis arrived and afterwards it was , by then he had calmed down and he was fine and I said wan na read the story now cos he missed it of course when he decided he could n't do without his car , so I said next week perhaps come without your car , I think I 'd won him over by the end but , it was a bit hairy . |
| 7 | They 'd fished him out of the water , so presumably he 'd drowned . |
| 8 | They 'd as good as killed him when they 'd taken him out of the field . |
| 9 | They 'd piled him in with the dead , and it was only later a naval ensign noticed him twitching . |
| 10 | He tried to ease his body to one side to let her come in but he was surprised once again as she got hold of his hand and began to pull him out of the bed . |
| 11 | It was in the corresponding match last season that Marshall sustained the knee ligament damage which threatened to put him out of the game . |
| 12 | His young rider , ‘ Wendy ’ , saddled him up , and started to trot him around in the practice ring with a number of other horses . |
| 13 | They went for him then , Alexander and Donald McLaggan , the Duke 's two sons , dragged him from his father 's side so that his head bounced on the steps , lifted him bleeding , like foresters keeping a dying deer clear of the hounds , and started to carry him down to the river ‘ just to cool him off ’ but Cameron ran and gripped Donald 's shoulder and shouted , ‘ If you injure an officer it is treason on top of sedition , ’ so they carried him back and laid him carefully at his father 's feet . |
| 14 | Then the officials decided to transfer him back to the Los Angeles County Jail . |
| 15 | At home this meant putting him out into the hall of the bungalow ( where there were no stairs ) . |
| 16 | She says she did want him out of the house , but she did n't want to kill him as a court was going to evict him anyway . |
| 17 | There were hundreds of screaming women outside and we had to whisk him down to the underground car park and shut the gates behind him . |
| 18 | Loads of people had let him down over the years , so I did n't want to be one of them . |
| 19 | The woman who had let him out of the darkness of the birth-cave into the light . ’ |
| 20 | Had carried him off into the mountains , in this harsh summer of storms and floods ? |
| 21 | It was nearly forty years since the history master had bawled him out on the pavement over there , in front of the House of Commons . |
| 22 | The castle 's black-cloaked seneschal had scowled darkly on the previous occasions when Quiss had tracked him down in the kitchens and asked him what was going on and what he intended to do about it ; he made dour excuses and talked of the corrosive effects of salt water and what a mess it made of his pipes and anyway materials were very hard to come by these days — What days ? |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm going to the bathroom , ’ said Philip , putting the stupid lamp that his Mum had bought him back on the window-sill . |
| 24 | It could have been the assurance of that privacy and , perhaps , the promise of food which had persuaded him in from the cold . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She was not like the Glasgow woman , who had shown him out into the street . |
| 27 | Harry was able to fit in only two further meetings with Alice — one when she had taken him to see the very impressive new branch of the Maison Verveine , and the other when she had invited him back to the flat to meet Jules . |
| 28 | She had called him up from the bus station as soon as she got into the City . |
| 29 | It had dragged him back to the stairwell , had gutted and fed from him to regain its strength . |
| 30 | Freddie Head , rider of Pistol Packer , opined that ‘ Mill Reef was the best horse I 've ever seen ’ , and the French press compared him with the horse whose stunning victory in the Arc six years earlier had marked him out as the very best horse of the era : ‘ Comme Sea Bird II — mais plus vite ’ , raved Paris-Turf He was indeed plus vite , for his Arc time of 2 minutes 28.3 seconds set a new course record . |