Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So this afternoon I had him on the settee |
| 2 | He had reached six when he played at a ball down the leg side which hit him on the thigh , with the bat some inches away , and was taken by Dujon . |
| 3 | A vast impenetrable openness which froze him to the spot where he was as if he was caught in ice . |
| 4 | Honest enquirers , like the lawyer who asked him about the greatest commandment , were impressed and attracted by his Bible-based teaching ( though , as with the rich young ruler , they did not all respond to it positively ) . |
| 5 | But Durie still feels uncomfortable at the club who backed him to the hilt in wiping out the damaging ‘ cheat ’ slur . |
| 6 | They then wrapped it in linen and concealed it about their person : to jade a horse they touched him in the pit of the shoulder with the frog 's bone : to release the horse they touched him on the rump . |
| 7 | They then wrapped it in linen and concealed it about their person : to jade a horse they touched him in the pit of the shoulder with the frog 's bone : to release the horse they touched him on the rump . |
| 8 | They bound the restaurant owner , who moaned feebly and thrashed about a bit ; then with Lambert 's aid they hoisted him to the high seat . |
| 9 | In the spring he took him to the house in Normandy . |
| 10 | Mr. Russell lost out when he received a 6p rise which put him above the income support level . |
| 11 | He walked back by a different route which took him along the waterfront . |
| 12 | It was an experience which steeled him for the future task of having as many as a dozen major country houses under construction in any one year . |
| 13 | The famous trip to Europe , which Lear had constantly referred to in his letters as if it were an experience which united him with the great ornithologist , became the bitter disappointment of a friendship manqué . |
| 14 | Plainly Henry Ward Beecher , the great New York preacher of puritanism , should either have avoided having tumultuous extra-marital love-affairs or chosen a career which did not require him to be quite such a prominent advocate of sexual restraint ; though one can not entirely fail to sympathise with the bad luck which linked him in the mid-1870s with the beautiful feminist and advocate of free love , Victoria Woodhull , a lady whose convictions made privacy difficult . |
| 15 | Outside in the corridor I grabbed him by the elbow . |
| 16 | Mark turned , just as the dogs took off together in a huge leap which struck him in the chest , knocking him backwards into the boot where he sat , legs dangling , with both arms wrapped around the excited dogs . |
| 17 | As he walked down the stairs it was the old lady who met him in the hall . |
| 18 | Out in the dark cold hall she stopped him at the foot of the stairs . |
| 19 | Then , with a girl who loved him on the seat of his bike , he came to a bridge he was never to cross . |
| 20 | Without hesitation she kicked him under the chin , the full weight of the kick throwing him flat on the floor . |
| 21 | One day , however , walking by the seashore he met an elderly Christian who told him about the Hebrew prophets , undermined his naïve confidence in the moral guidance of philosophers , and converted him to Christianity . |
| 22 | But for Ilsa 's sake I asked him about the gleaming star and discs on their rainbowed ribbons and he became almost talkative . |
| 23 | I , when , when we go down to playschool I walk but because it takes what fifteen minutes to walk into town I put him in the pushchair |
| 24 | Ironically , Gough 's rash challenge on Ferguson at Tannadice resulted in a booking which carries him over the disciplinary points threshold and costs Rangers the services of their captain when they visit Arbroath for the Scottish Cup , quarter-final tie on 6 March . |
| 25 | If the truth be told , it was Norman 's putter which kept him in the hunt down the stretch . |
| 26 | She watched him dive , slicing into the water like a knife , and then continue in a powerful crawl which took him towards the centre of the lake . |
| 27 | She expects him to be an untidy swimmer , but is irritated to find that he has a smooth powerful crawl which takes him through the water swiftly and seriously . |
| 28 | ARMY veteran Tom Clarkson had a special date yesterday with part of a bomb which hit him in the head during World War Two . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , the Australian is still likely to preside over the punishment of the opponent who beat him in the World Open final . |
| 30 | Edgar , on the other hand , has his father 's nature who saves him in the disguise of ‘ poor Tom ’ . |