Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] 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 | If the truth be told , it was Norman 's putter which kept him in the hunt down the stretch . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | ARMY veteran Tom Clarkson had a special date yesterday with part of a bomb which hit him in the head during World War Two . |
26 | Nevertheless , the Australian is still likely to preside over the punishment of the opponent who beat him in the World Open final . |
27 | Next day I shot him in the arm during our fight , thought that was the end of the whole thing , and left France . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | 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 . |