Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] him [prep] the " in BNC.

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31 Next day I shot him in the arm during our fight , thought that was the end of the whole thing , and left France .
32 The court which sentences him for the latest offence will have to decide whether to return him to prison to serve a period equal to the balance of the sentence which remained on the day the offence was committed .
33 Then a conceptual emotion was released in him which transmuted what he saw into theory , a recognition of the cerebral nature of an art which transported him beyond the mere explanation of the visible .
34 Despite the much vaunted heating and ventilating system of the new police headquarters the windows of Wycliffe 's office were almost obscured by condensation and the air had a clammy warmth which reminded him of the tropical house at Kew .
35 Leslie Brent was in Dovercourt for three weeks before going to Bunce Court , a happy chance which put him into the most favoured category of child refugees .
36 McKenzie initially felt unwelcomed in the unfamiliar surroundings until he saw an old Melbourne friend who introduced him to the irrepressible club coach , Jeff Sayle .
37 The appellant failed to comply with the rules of the hostel , on one occasion leaving without permission , and was brought before the magistrates ' court who returned him to the hostel .
38 In the dawn grey with sea mist she drove him to the airport .
39 Justus Lipsius was the classical scholar who introduced him into the military sphere .
40 Every day she meets him at the well , and every day he repeats the same request , till at last she yields .
41 Then one day she rang him with the triumphant news that she had finished .
42 On one occasion she threw him on the floor and on another she had deliberately broken his toys .
43 ( d ) The supplier must have failed within a reasonable time of the request , to comply with it or to identify the person who supplied him with the product ( s. 2(3) ( c ) ) .
44 And that , I I was , my hus , during the time mother was ill , my husband took ill , now this is where authorities do n't give you any back up , instead of sending him to hospital which was fifteen minutes by bus , I could have visited him every day they sent him to the other side of the county which only allowed a visit once a week , and meant I had to leave at twelve o'clock and get home at six !
45 Though he was later subtly dismissive of the assembly , he undoubtedly appreciated its value at the time , not least for the good publicity it gave him in the British and American press .
46 Oh yes , every month I call him into the office and I say , it still is n't good enough , pull your socks up .
47 Every morning I drove him to the hospital , waited for his X-ray treatment , drove him home again and helped him to bed .
48 If he races on Saturday New Level will line up against the much fancied Ringa Hustle and the dog which beat him in the last round , Apres Soleil , which is on offer at 80–1 .
49 He saved too the note she sent requesting ‘ Big choc. cake , ginger biscuits , Twiglets ’ just as he has kept the clipping she sent him from the Daily Telegraph about academic failures who become gifted and successful later in life .
50 He did not look at the woman who passed him in the hallway .
51 ‘ When he talks to you he makes you feel as if you are the only person in the entire world , ’ said one woman who met him on the campaign trail .
52 In the small mezzanine ‘ A ’ -Control Room stood the producer , his eye on the second-hand of the wall-clock and his right hand raised to signal the start to the conductor who watched him from the studio .
53 Therefore he is asking for trouble , and he receives it suddenly and in full measure , above the groundswell of heckling , at the hands of a divinity student who reminds him at the top of his voice about Fedka , a dangerous escaped convict now roaming ‘ our town ’ and originally a serf of Stepan 's whom he sold into military service to pay a gambling debt :
54 Meanwhile Ben had gone off to move another lighter and was then intercepted by the Manager who directed him to the dock some way off .
55 With a shrill yelp she nipped him in the hind leg and he shot away in alarm .
56 They they put him on the rail they tied him to the railway track so he 'd get run over by a train but I do n't think he did .
57 Tony arrived from Crewe by car at 7.30 p.m. and before he even put down his suitcase I questioned him about the ‘ Heritage ’ tour .
58 Crawling across the floor I trapped him behind the settee .
59 Having got this far , he allowed himself another minute or so before confronting the thousand-day journey which separated him from the bathroom .
60 Gavin can remember little about the savage attack which put him into the John Radcliffe Hospital .
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