Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] him [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A branch whipped him in the face . |
| 2 | The head of national television , Elemer Hankiss , initiated legal action in December to reverse Antall 's Dec. 9 decision to suspend him pending an investigation of charges of financial misconduct . |
| 3 | The Minotaur was finally slain by Theseus , who found his way out of the labyrinth by trailing a skein of thread given him by the king 's daughter , ARIADNE . |
| 4 | Filaret owed his eminence less to his holy office than to his son 's willingness to treat him as a co-ruler . |
| 5 | No baptism has been traced , though his marriage certificate records him as the son of John Crockford , schoolmaster . |
| 6 | Bridhe and Seamus Ban consulted him about the amount of drink that would be needed , and were told to double it . |
| 7 | I have today won a concession from the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , in as much as he is going to give a delegation from the Southampton and district licensed victuallers an opportunity to see him at the Department to talk over some of these matters . |
| 8 | Ferdinand believed Godoy was scheming for a regency to exclude him from the throne ; Godoy knew that Ferdinand was intriguing against him with the French ambassador . |
| 9 | This week , the ageing lothario was horrified when a cloth-capped pensioner pursued him down a street , wreathed in smiles and waving an autograph book , The Rolling Stone coldly ignored him , appalled at being associated with a gummy grandad and perhaps being all too forcibly reminded of his own advancing years . |
| 10 | The gang assaulted him during the drive to Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire , then threw him out of the car . |
| 11 | that experience changed him in every way . |
| 12 | When Thomas tried to grab the child away , the lash caught him in the eye . |
| 13 | Part of the confusion came from the unworthy pleasure given him by the prospect of holding onto his ward a little longer . |
| 14 | Manitou , ( the Great Spirit ) was so touched by the Indian 's devotion that upon his death Manitou made him into a rock standing off the inlet , and that monument has been called Siwash Rock ever since . |
| 15 | With Dara once more clinging firmly and rather painfully to her arm she was walked back to the small , intimate table they had been sharing on the edge of the small dance-floor , but Ace was quickly on to his feet , side-stepping Dara 's attempt to greet him with a kiss . |
| 16 | Hooks of meat , barrows of vegetables , trays of pies , urns of tea passed him in every direction . |
| 17 | The President regarded him for a moment and Trent thought that the old man might rally . |
| 18 | A PEER with a distinguished war record who became a Conservative minister , Warden of Winchester College and businessman , yesterday described to a High Court jury his horror when he realised a pamphlet described him as a war criminal . |
| 19 | Andrew Chubb , prosecuting , claimed Blissett elbowed Uzzell after the defender beat him to the ball and headed it away . |
| 20 | Defeat entered him like a heart attack , stunning the centre of his system . |
| 21 | Thus in the case referred to by Holt C.J. , in Philips v. Bury , Appleford 's Case ( 1672 ) 1 Mod.Rep. 82 , the plaintiff sought an order directed to the master and fellows of a college to reinstate him as a fellow , the visitor having already adjudicated that he had been rightly removed . |
| 22 | The second lorry ran into the car 's side sandwiching him in the wreckage . |
| 23 | The blow came at a meeting on Saturday when members voted not to let him stand as an election candidate — despite a recommendation to accept him by the executive committee . |
| 24 | The handlebar caught him in the groin . |
| 25 | The President drove him to the station . ’ |
| 26 | Davide had turned up a coin , one afternoon , when he was mooning around ; it was a common enough type , the professor told him in the museum at Riba , where he took it for an opinion . |
| 27 | It was an attempt to lead him to the realization that this was something that would n't work … |
| 28 | A journalist interviewed him for a book about his family , and when The Nielsons appeared , it made no mention at all of his professional life . |
| 29 | [ William Golding , The Inheritors ] It requires careful attention to realize that here we are seeing , through the uncomprehending mind of Lok , a man 's attempt to shoot him with an arrow . |
| 30 | Scarlatti and Bach reveal his ear for tonal colour , and miniatures as unlike as Beethoven 's Ecossaise in E flat and his own ear-tickling Valse amour confirm him as a charmer of the first order . |