Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] him [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The German and French leaders told the Prime Minister they did not want to see him in the run up to the Edinburgh summit , which begins on Friday . |
2 | He believed the order had been given to kill him by the DO . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | I 'ad to hit him with an ornament , and when his fam'ly got back from church 'is wife asked him what 'ad happened to his face . |
5 | Promises quite often concern the actions of others : to consent to be governed by another is to promise to obey him ; to consent to his joining the expedition is to promise to provide him with the facilities and the help made available to members of the expedition . |
6 | At the age of sixteen , this writer had slept with an older , married friend of her Father ; she had arranged to meet him in a churchyard after dinner and they made love on a tombstone . |
7 | Another time , I had arranged to meet him in the Naafi , a popular meeting place on the camp , at 5pm . |
8 | A bit o' glass 'ad caught him on the fore'ead , but otherwise we 'ad n't a scratch to show for it between us . |
9 | Want to nail him to the fence you should think he 's not |
10 | She tried phoning him with a variety of invitations she felt he would n't refuse , but he always made excuses for not meeting her . |
11 | When that news hits him , the narrator seems to crumble , even though a premonitory dream the night before has readied him for the shock . |
12 | He led them into the kitchen , chatting to Blanche and Dexter as if they were house guests rather than police officers who had come to interview him about a murder . |
13 | Stuart is too good to be kept on the sidelines at a time when England have looked to include him in the B squad as the next stage of his international career . |
14 | Since someone tried to kill him with a parcel bomb back in Lusaka , he 's moved several times and today still goes in fear of his life . |
15 | They tried to eject him from the podium . |
16 | They held him in a detention camp for three months , the Germans , and then the officers had come to see him from the SS . |
17 | She had n't really expected to see him at the funeral , though she had looked forward to the possibility with unseemly excitement considering the solemnity of the occasion . |
18 | It proposed bringing him before a tribunal of officers . |
19 | ‘ You are naughty , wicked and bad , ’ she cried as she pretended to hit him over the head . |
20 | As he passed Garry he pretended to punch him in the arm . |
21 | Italian club Torino tried to tempt him to the land of loads of lira , but Nigel 's mother put the block on that move . |
22 | Marc got up , face like a thunder-cloud , the look he gave Peter designed to shrivel him on the spot . |
23 | He 's missing but I want to find him without the law knowing I 'm interested . ’ |
24 | ‘ a very long boy , with a very little head , and an open mouth of disproportionate capacity ’ , devotedly attached to Betty Higden who has rescued him from the workhouse in which he has been brought up , having been a foundling child . |
25 | ERIC Butler , a charity worker , fought back with his swordstick when a mugger tried to strangle him on the London Underground in 1987 . |
26 | I dived towards the scarlet streaks and touched him at once , but there was no movement in him , and when I tried to pull him to the surface , I could n't . |
27 | PETER MARSHALL 's double-handed style has carried him to the top of the British rankings , and many observers were looking to this week 's British Open Championship at Wembley Conference Centre to provide proof of his potential at world level . |
28 | SUN man Paul Welford has reported him to the police , and Flashman said : ‘ If people want to do that , then fair enough . |
29 | Deuce , a pimp , has added him to a clutch of boys he is taking to a hotel . |
30 | It was clear that she had not expected to find him in the room . |