Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] him [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was at the time very concerned , because he was posted almost immediately to North Africa , and there was no chance of helping him forward in the early days of his Christian life . |
| 2 | The rewards of this parliamentary victory were to come with the defeat of the French armies in 1870 , but at the time opponents of the Emperor saw only a means of forcing him further along the path of change . |
| 3 | Naturally he wanted a top man to carry his bag , a man who knew St Andrews like the back of his hand — someone young and capable of clubbing him perfectly over the home of golf 's fickle links , no matter what the weather . |
| 4 | I could name at least three of my friends who would have been prompt to offer this undeniably attractive young man a doss down on the sofa , and one of them who would have already been thinking of taking him upstairs for the night … |
| 5 | Studying him now , dispassionately , without the emotional blindness of the aftermath of her accident , or the initial shock of finding that he was last night 's rescuer , it was like seeing him properly for the first time … |
| 6 | In fact , it seems he had a stroke , but that the doctors were discouraged from treating him quickly by the Securitate . |
| 7 | Moustaine walked through the ranks , stuck his fingers into Haines 's mouth and proceeded to pull out the half-chewed food , before hitting him hard in the solar plexus . |
| 8 | Mayli hesitated just briefly before shooting him twice through the chest . |
| 9 | Until that moment they were reconciled to leaving him behind for the proposed four-week tour . |
| 10 | Patricia was rowed for leaving him behind in the cinema . |
| 11 | And it was obvious why — pure unadulterated jealousy at meeting him again in the presence of the lovely Maria Luisa . |
| 12 | The Bible becomes his bastion against moral powerlessness , too , by reminding him constantly of the divine power that is available to overcome his weakness ( for " God is at work in you , both to will and to work for his good pleasure " ) . |