Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] him [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A branch whipped him in the face . |
| 2 | His talents , his wealth , and the changing times raised him to the court of assistants of the Levant Company from 1644 to 1648 , and in 1645 Parliament appointed him to the Goldsmiths ' Hall committee , through which Royalists redeemed their sequestrated estates by paying compositions . |
| 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 | No baptism has been traced , though his marriage certificate records him as the son of John Crockford , schoolmaster . |
| 5 | Bridhe and Seamus Ban consulted him about the amount of drink that would be needed , and were told to double it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | On 26 March , back in Chicago , Coleman applied for a US passport in the name of Thomas J. Leavy , using the birth certificate given him by the CIA in 1982 and the documents issued in Washington . |
| 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 | The gang assaulted him during the drive to Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire , then threw him out of the car . |
| 10 | When Thomas tried to grab the child away , the lash caught him in the eye . |
| 11 | Part of the confusion came from the unworthy pleasure given him by the prospect of holding onto his ward a little longer . |
| 12 | In 1911 , aged twenty-nine , the Crown Prince was sent off to Danzig to command a Hussar Regiment ( it was a fairly transparent form of exile to preserve him from the temptations of political and amorous indiscretion in Berlin ) , but he showed himself singularly adept at escaping from the tedium of regimental duties . |
| 13 | Andrew Chubb , prosecuting , claimed Blissett elbowed Uzzell after the defender beat him to the ball and headed it away . |
| 14 | The second lorry ran into the car 's side sandwiching him in the wreckage . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The handlebar caught him in the groin . |
| 17 | The President drove him to the station . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It was an attempt to lead him to the realization that this was something that would n't work … |
| 20 | The League ruled that the striking off of Grima from the Widnes register and an attempt to replace him with the Tongan forward , Boblyn Tuavao , was ‘ unacceptable ’ . |
| 21 | A ceremony to swear him into the post was to have been held tomorrow . |
| 22 | The President called him into the room . |
| 23 | " Frith could have killed El-ahrairah at once , but he had a mind to keep him in the world , because he needed him to sport and jest and play tricks . |
| 24 | He marries Julia Maplesone , whose extravagance lands him in the Fleet Prison , and who deserts him whilst he is there . |
| 25 | Smith has been dismissed as ‘ presence of mind Smith ’ from his alleged remark on returning without his companion from a disastrous outing on the river : ‘ If I had not with great presence of mind hit him on the head with a boathook both would have been drowned , ’ but the story comes from Reminiscences of Oxford ( 1st edn. 1900 ) by William Tuckwell , who in his second edition ( 1907 ) consigned it to oblivion ; moreover , there was no charge of murder . |
| 26 | It costs a great deal to keep him in the home , as well as your father . ’ |
| 27 | The man with the shotgun hit him with the butt of the weapon , driving it deep into his stomach , doubling him over , dropping him to the floor . |
| 28 | Last night Graveney confirmed that he 'd made the allegation but was ‘ obviously very disappointed ’ at the bid to veto him by the Pakistan Board . |
| 29 | He said he needed me to pretend to be his girlfriend to protect him from the bimbos . ’ |
| 30 | The wind grabbed him under the arms and flipped him outwards and back as it had the torn raven banner already . |