Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] 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 | Bridhe and Seamus Ban consulted him about the amount of drink that would be needed , and were told to double it . |
| 4 | The gang assaulted him during the drive to Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire , then threw him out of the car . |
| 5 | When Thomas tried to grab the child away , the lash caught him in the eye . |
| 6 | Andrew Chubb , prosecuting , claimed Blissett elbowed Uzzell after the defender beat him to the ball and headed it away . |
| 7 | The handlebar caught him in the groin . |
| 8 | The President drove him to the station . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The wind grabbed him under the arms and flipped him outwards and back as it had the torn raven banner already . |
| 13 | Even though he had a job to go to with Birmingham Repertory Company , his agent sent him to the Rank interview for the experience . |
| 14 | But a witness saw him outside the premises . |
| 15 | As he raised his binoculars to scan the coast , the wind struck him in the face . |
| 16 | Got killed when that horse kicked him in the head . ’ |
| 17 | Haines fell over and a Corporal kicked him in the stomach , shouting at him to stand up . |
| 18 | The club struck him in the stomach again , dripping him to his knees , and there was a sudden crack that seemed unnaturally loud in the silence . |
| 19 | He felt nothing as the angel bore him to the grave below , no pain as the solid granite drove shattered ribs deep into his lungs . |
| 20 | He gasped with pain as the head of the smaller boy caught him in the stomach . |
| 21 | Outside , the sun lashed him across the forehead with a warning of another headache to come , and he wished he had n't had a drink with lunch at paderborn . |
| 22 | Her vacuum cleaner drove him into the street , in search of a coffee shop . |
| 23 | Four photographs of the wearer showed him in the act of jumping from an aircraft . |
| 24 | Alistair Campbell , prosecuting , said : ‘ Mr Friel shouted : ‘ Do n't come near me , ’ but the youths kept coming and the 15-year-old boy knocked him to the ground . ’ |
| 25 | On his journey , fearful and probably suffering from reactionary depression , he slept a night under a broom bush , where he dreamed that an angel touched him on the shoulder and bade him rise and eat . |
| 26 | ( 6 ) An empathetic question asks the pupil to become involved personally with the evidence , e.g. " If you had been the soldier standing behind Harold , say what you might have thought , felt and done at the moment the arrow hit him in the eye . " |
| 27 | He 's gone to ground since The Sun named him as the man who passed on a tape of a telephone call allegedly made by the Princess of Wales to an admirer on New Year 's Eve 1989 . |
| 28 | Her arm caught in the mesh and her fist hit him on the side of the head . |
| 29 | Even now the recollection seized him in the abdomen , and a kind of sick longing made him tremble . |
| 30 | When he moved to Battersea his route to work took him past the factory every day . |