Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | He had to — they were doubtless watching him on the closed-circuit television . |
2 | Duvall was still holding him by the throat . |
3 | This was clearly to prepare him for the task of taking over the captaincy the next summer . |
4 | If it enabled the latter the crucial theoretical move of being able to reject the classical empiricist conception of knowledge , it was also to put him in the position of even castigating as ‘ historicist ’ any attempts to account for theoretical discourse in terms of its historical conditions of production — perhaps one of the major ways in which he differed from Canguilhem and Foucault . |
5 | And indeed it was from this time that he began to suffer the kind of serious ill health which was regularly to affect him for the rest of his life . |
6 | Mr Wheelhouse , of Roseberry Crescent , Norton , Stockton , asked him where his money was then hit him on the head with the hammer , knocking him unconscious . |
7 | Richard , Agnes 's younger son , was to find the Justice of the Forests south of Trent twelve ‘ free and law-worthy men ’ who would guarantee that he would well and faithfully keep the said bailiwick on Agnes 's behalf : the Forest Justice was then to admit him to the custody in Agnes 's place . |