Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [verb] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man heard or sensed him at the last moment and turned with his hands coming up to a fighting stance but Maxim feinted through them and hit him low in the stomach . |
| 2 | Buchanan 's Triangles clubmate Mark Tosh pushed hard to try and catch him on the five-mile run but the Derry man won in a time of 1.28.52 . |
| 3 | Burton was hurling himself on the course most likely to tempt and test him to the limit . |
| 4 | A sudden flurry of shots rang out from the direction of the cainca , confirming the older man 's prediction , and without further argument the two boys turned and followed him into the jungle at a run . |
| 5 | She seemed inclined to give Harry short shrift , but at his mention of Heather 's name , she relented and showed him into the front room , where a meagre measure of calm and quiet prevailed . |
| 6 | Peter Nieswand used to go and interview him for the BBC , sitting as I did beside his swimming pool , looking across the lawn on to six miles of fine farm-land . |
| 7 | Some other employee has to go and fetch him in the morning |
| 8 | He 'd asked me to go and see him in the evening to continue the interview . |
| 9 | He held for Alice altogether a great fascination , but she steadfastly refused offers to go and see him in the nursery , and ignored him the few occasions he was on show . |
| 10 | I decided after all it would be better to go and see him in the shop like you said — ’ |
| 11 | He dreamed the actual execution , including his head being separated from his body , and then abruptly woke up to find that his bed headboard had fallen and struck him on the back of the neck in the same place as the guillotine in the dream . |
| 12 | He fears , as this moving tableau blots out his view , that she does not want to look at him but , then , just as he is allowing himself this painful thought , she turns and kisses him on the eyes before taking his cock in her mouth . |
| 13 | At once she turned and hit him over the ear as hard as she could . |
| 14 | Rather than have him insinuate himself into the building later and perhaps annoy her neighbours , she capitulated and invited him to the flat . |
| 15 | They bound Guthlac ‘ in all his limbs … and brought him to the black fen , and threw and sank him in the muddy waters ’ . |
| 16 | Helen nodded and followed him into the kitchen . |
| 17 | She nodded and followed him from the Rosemount wing and across the grounds to her car . |
| 18 | " You can tell him , " I said , turning and looking him in the face , " that you were entirely mistaken ; that my boss really is my boss , and that I 'm not going to have a baby . " |
| 19 | Assaulting a constable , or obstructing or resisting him in the execution of his duty are all specific statutory offences . |
| 20 | On one occasion , when George Brown was to give a seminal broadcast on a new financial plan , Wigg , who had been assigned by the Prime Minister to ensure , or to endeavour to ensure , that Brown arrived at Broadcasting House respectably sober , could think of nothing better to do than to consign him in the early afternoon to the sitting-room in my flat at Ashley Gardens . |
| 21 | ‘ Bullshit , ’ she remarked and punched him in the arm as he grinned . |
| 22 | Brown was found guilty after trial of assaulting Mr Kelly , 23 , by punching and kicking him about the head and body , seizing hold of him , stabbing him on the body with a knife and to the danger of his life . |
| 23 | No doubt they would return and place him with the other Commando dead in neat rows in front of the Chateau to await burial . |
| 24 | ‘ Victor 's story is that she was willing , she undressed and led him to the bedroom . |
| 25 | His face and body were a mass of bruises after he had been attacked at his home by a forty-strong mob who were preparing to lynch him in the remains of his once beautiful garden when the military had arrived and bundled him into the back of a police van and brought him to La Tambier . |
| 26 | ‘ The Protection Police arrived and took him off the Otso . |
| 27 | I was n't sure , I said , but soon , very soon ; I 'd phone and tell him within the next couple of days . |
| 28 | Then , when he sought to take the oath , the House itself refused and excluded him on the dubious ground that , being an atheist , he could not swear . |
| 29 | The cabby refused and grabbed him by the arm , at which point the robber pulled free and ran off . |
| 30 | Gravenor Henson , the leader of the Framework Knitters " Union , regarded the existence of the acts as " a tremendous millstone round the neck of the local artisan , which has depressed and debased him to the earth , every act which he has attempted every measure that he has devised to keep up or raise his wages , he has been told was illegal : the whole force of the civil power and influence of the district has been exerted against him because he was acting illegally " . |