Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] he [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , in 1983 it was said that ‘ even where the husband had been violent , it would be reasonable for the wife to continue to reside in the matrimonial home but to seek a court order restraining his violence or barring him from the home ’ and in these circumstances the authority 's duty would be ‘ to advise the applicant so to do , not to accommodate her as a homeless person ’ . |
| 2 | This makes me wonder if it is the creative thought that guides the discoverer or whether it is the emotion that is the creative force that impels him to the solution . |
| 3 | That is a talent that followed him to the Foreign Office and to the Department of Health , where he helped Ken Clarke take on hospital doctors attacking their tales of long hours as ‘ fishermen 's stories ’ . |
| 4 | When , a long time ago now , Stephen had tried to call him Dad or Father and drop the babyish name , he had shouted that Stephen was all he had in the world and could n't he have a little bit of kindness and call him by the one name that meant something ? |
| 5 | If you put your Orc Shaman on a wyvern and fly him to the other end of the battlefield he wo n't be able to use his Waaagh magic . |
| 6 | Rosie had bitten him twice in the past ; once when she managed to free herself by chewing through her tethering-rope , and once when she leaped through the window of Buddie 's jeep and chased him into the pig-yard . |
| 7 | But when Mr Wray punched him , Youngs picked up the hammer and struck him across the cheek . |
| 8 | I struck out feebly in self-defence and hit him across the chest , which increased his rage . |
| 9 | And finally two Ayr police officers said that a shelved 1969 report showed they had picked up a man ‘ of slight build and a Glasgow accent who said his name was McGuigan or McGuinness ’ some 600 yards from the Ross bungalow in the early hours of the morning of the murder and dropped him at the bus station ; and they now declared from photographs recently shown to them that the man was William McGuinness . |
| 10 | ‘ He went to put his hand inside his jacket , then another passenger jumped out of his seat and threw him through the doors . |
| 11 | Alyssia wished that it would somehow whip around his neck and strangle him on the spot . |
| 12 | She threw her arms round his neck and kissed him on the lips , enveloping him in discreetly expensive perfume . |
| 13 | He grabbed Rodomonte by the scruff of the neck and pushed him towards the light , holding his nose inches away from the crackling fluorescence . |
| 14 | Not with the shaft of a golf club driven through his neck and pinning him to the wooden floor . |
| 15 | He tried protesting to Selkirk , who simply struck him across the mouth and pushed him through the metal-studded door . |
| 16 | He let in the estate agent and took him over the house , into the drawing room and the dining room , upstairs to the Pincushion Room , the Centaur Room , the Room of Astonishment , the Deathbed Room , the Room Without a Name , and then back down the back stairs to that jumble of kitchens and scullery and washhouse and coal-store , most of it a nineteenth century addition . |
| 17 | They then bundled him out of the car and left him on the road . |
| 18 | Then when he stops , get out the car and grab him by the neck then throw then I . |
| 19 | I picked up a marrowbone and hit him on the head . |
| 20 | His business licenses him to fraternise with the enemy and casts him in the role of a Microsoft independent software developer-come-OEM , complete with an early access copy of Microsoft NT . |
| 21 | Brian had not merely hated the cockerel but feared it since it had got through the fence and bitten him on the leg . |
| 22 | But Patsy decided she needed a hand with the unpacking and phoned him from the car on the way home . |
| 23 | Knowing how the crowd was on Tony 's side and treating him as the hero only seemed to make Lee more determined . |
| 24 | I had to catch up the axe and hit him with the blunt end , knock him out . |
| 25 | As Duncan had already decided not to leave the policeman to his own devices , he had no alternative but to join him on the next available flight to Tobolsk . |
| 26 | His enthusiastic and entrepreneurial promotion of these studies , however , was combined with a political naïvety that blinded him to the problems that can arise from reliance on external sources of funding in politically charged fields of study . |
| 27 | His threat reflected anger at the results of an internal party election that relegated him to the number four spot in the party leadership and his supporters to inferior slots on the party ticket . |
| 28 | He went inside and the kitchen scents hit him then , laying down a trail that drew him across the creaking boards and down the hall . |
| 29 | Philip Tufnell is welcomed back to Test cricket after his appendix operation by a Waqar Younis yorker that hit him on the foot |
| 30 | On leaving school he went as a labourer to Hunts Farm ( visible from the 6th green ) and it was this work that brought him to the course . |