Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb past] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His commitment to the reform of secondary education was unrelenting ; his position as Archbishop placed him at the heart of the religious problem ; his alliance with Butler — for whom he was ‘ all bulge and brain ’ — eventually tamed the opposition of the Churches . |
| 2 | Smith has been dismissed as ‘ presence of mind Smith ’ from his alleged remark on returning without his companion from a disastrous outing on the river : ‘ If I had not with great presence of mind hit him on the head with a boathook both would have been drowned , ’ but the story comes from Reminiscences of Oxford ( 1st edn. 1900 ) by William Tuckwell , who in his second edition ( 1907 ) consigned it to oblivion ; moreover , there was no charge of murder . |
| 3 | ( Paradoxically the release of tension enabled him in the next week to run up , turn out , patch together , a poetical melodrama about Cabestainh with which the house-guests had some civilised fun . ) |
| 4 | A shower of jeers greeted him from the queue and , as he passed the last boy , who was just out of sight of Mr Gillis , a foot shot out , caught him on the ankle and down he went , sprawling on the wooden floor . |
| 5 | Within three minutes Glentoran 's Gary Hillis was booked for dissent ; Joey Cunningham of Portadown followed him into the book for a foul on Michael Smyth two minutes later . |
| 6 | A last burst of effort heaved him over the stone edge of the gable to sprawl thankfully on the slates . |
| 7 | Only a small number of men accompanied him into the forest . |
| 8 | The Master of Ceremonies placed him near the Great Mogul and a plate of freshly grilled lamb was put before him . |
| 9 | Dimly making out figures , he leant forward on his mount , and a volley of fire tore him to the ground . |
| 10 | At one time , the Orphic cult of extremists regarded him as the Creator of the world . |
| 11 | These two seemed friendly enough , but their questions about Sweetheart put him on the defensive . |
| 12 | Two of his greatest performances came in 1979 , with 5 for 38 in the World Cup final and 6 for 29 in the Gillette final for Somerset , although both times Richards pipped him for the match award . |
| 13 | Ramsey had moved out of the Barthian influence which via Hoskyns attracted him during the earlier 1930s . |
| 14 | So , yeah it 's erm I think he 's living with Marion told him about the house , it 's one of the girls who was in English last year with her , Maureen , he 's living with her and another girl , and another boy . |
| 15 | Contact with Warhol introduced him to the Velvet Underground . |
| 16 | Corbett walked and argued with himself until the bells tolling for Compline brought him into the Abbey church with its lofty roof , pointed arches and round drum-like columns . |
| 17 | This hatred and distrust was fuelled when Arthur Kitson of Kitson Empire Lighting Company in Stamford introduced him to the famous anti-Semitic forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion , which claimed that the Jews were about to take over the world ( an example of modern mythologising for political purposes ) . |
| 18 | But the sight of her in tears disarmed him in the strangest way . |
| 19 | But a strong mid-season run of top finishes and two crashes from Kocinski shot him into the title lead , only for the crown to be snatched away from him in Australia . |
| 20 | One moment of astonishing creativity in the dying seconds on Saturday transported him to the centre of Arsenal 's universe . |
| 21 | When he moved to Battersea his route to work took him past the factory every day . |
| 22 | The sentry on duty shot him through the head . |
| 23 | A translation of Cato 's precepts dedicated to Cawarden praised him as the embodiment of ‘ politique wisdom ’ . |
| 24 | The squire who carried the news to the king at Berkhamsted reached him on the evening of June 24th . |
| 25 | Various religious influences at Cambridge fired him with the wish to dedicate his life to God . |
| 26 | Some of his own priests at Canterbury denounced him to the King for heresy . |