Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [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 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 ?
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 But when Mr Wray punched him , Youngs picked up the hammer and struck him across the cheek .
6 I struck out feebly in self-defence and hit him across the chest , which increased his rage .
7 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 .
8 ‘ He went to put his hand inside his jacket , then another passenger jumped out of his seat and threw him through the doors .
9 Alyssia wished that it would somehow whip around his neck and strangle him on the spot .
10 She threw her arms round his neck and kissed him on the lips , enveloping him in discreetly expensive perfume .
11 He grabbed Rodomonte by the scruff of the neck and pushed him towards the light , holding his nose inches away from the crackling fluorescence .
12 Not with the shaft of a golf club driven through his neck and pinning him to the wooden floor .
13 He tried protesting to Selkirk , who simply struck him across the mouth and pushed him through the metal-studded door .
14 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 .
15 They then bundled him out of the car and left him on the road .
16 Then when he stops , get out the car and grab him by the neck then throw then I .
17 I picked up a marrowbone and hit him on the head .
18 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 .
19 Brian had not merely hated the cockerel but feared it since it had got through the fence and bitten him on the leg .
20 But Patsy decided she needed a hand with the unpacking and phoned him from the car on the way home .
21 Knowing how the crowd was on Tony 's side and treating him as the hero only seemed to make Lee more determined .
22 I had to catch up the axe and hit him with the blunt end , knock him out .
23 Jane slid on to his lap and kissed him on the mouth .
24 He crossed to the guard and tapped him on the arm .
25 I 'd been caddying for Ralph Moffatt on the pro circuit and got him through the pre-qualifier at Fairhaven , so I told him I 'd be caddying for him in the Open as I 'd heard nothing from Jack .
26 She went to the window and watched him into the street , then into his car , then out of sight .
27 But when he did , a single shot fired from the van shattered the driver 's window and hit him in the back , killing him .
28 But he would concede nothing , and in the end I gave him a dry little bow and thanked him for the tea .
29 Mason meanwhile attacked one Messerschmitt which at once went straight down , but the others attacked him and one got three hits on his aircraft , which shattered the windscreen and wounded him in the hand as he broke away .
30 I remember when Mike was a baby and I went home with my shopping and left him at the check-out in Sainsbury 's .
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