Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [vb past] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My wife my wife heard him on the radio on Saturday morning she said who 's this why does he keep saying motor car , motor car |
| 2 | ‘ My men found him in the garden , not in the house . |
| 3 | And we would have seen how her eyes followed him to the door . |
| 4 | Her eyes beseeched him for the truth . |
| 5 | Her arm caught in the mesh and her fist hit him on the side of the head . |
| 6 | Her toecap took him under the chin , close to the throat . |
| 7 | He released the clutch as the thunder broke upon him : the power of its sound smashed him into the saddle as he zig-zagged fast across the smooth grass towards the cabin . |
| 8 | The river dream came to him again , he was wading deep into the current , its coldness griped him by the crutch , shocking him , he must reach that bluish hovering light on the far bank — trees towering above — a house , a tall bulky building towering above him … |
| 9 | But Mr Browning had told police his route took him via the M4 , over the Severn Bridge , and not by the more direct route of the M50 . |
| 10 | His route took him past the City of Dreams . |
| 11 | Conflicts with his superiors deprived him of the prospect of promotion , and at the age of twenty-five he found himself on the retired list , reduced to half pay in 1812 . |
| 12 | His Mum took him by the shoulders and turned him to face her . |
| 13 | Even though he had a job to go to with Birmingham Repertory Company , his agent sent him to the Rank interview for the experience . |
| 14 | Inevitably , his steps led him in the end to the Corso , where the evening promenade was in progress . |
| 15 | That many of his clients saw him in the former category is suggested by the fact that they frequently passed to him details of their restless and unsuitable executives in the hope that he would redeploy them . |
| 16 | What was Jesus doing when his parents found him in the Temple at the end of their search for him ? |
| 17 | His friend kicked him in the ribs and asked him what he was doing down there . |
| 18 | A TIPSY husband ended up in hospital when his wife hit him over the head with their Christmas tree . |
| 19 | BARRY WILSON turned in a star performance as Stantondale increased their lead at the top of the second division last week - and afterwards his managers furnished him with the same compliment : ‘ He 's class . ’ |
| 20 | He has had a passion for buses and coaches ever since childhood when his father took him to the Darlington bus depot where he still works as a driver . |
| 21 | A year later his father followed him to the grave . |
| 22 | His diffidence blinded him to the truth that the one book was already influential in modern thinking . |
| 23 | How right this intuitive decision proved to be and how well his intuition served him in the years ahead . |
| 24 | The research Jarvis embarked on for his book took him into the lower level concourse at Bond Street . |
| 25 | In those days he came in with a His coachman brought him in the trap and they got the twenty minutes past seven express train to Glasgow . |
| 26 | His way took him past the local police station . |
| 27 | Isambard 's hand on his shoulder brought him to the bench at the end of the room , where a film of stone-dust coated the floor , and several fragments of carvings and half-cut blocks of stone lay pushed together against the wall , as though discarded long ago . |
| 28 | His misery drove him to the theatre again , uselessly ; he had used up Dinah 's tickets , and was told at the box office that all seats were sold out . |
| 29 | Eventually , his wanderings led him to the ornate frontage of a steam-house . |
| 30 | Incredibly , fourteen months later , in 1981 , his ego goaded him to the Bahamas and another fight , the fat jellied on his middle , his hand-speed sighing and wheezing like a busted old fan ; tropic rot on the trade winds . |