Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] he [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second lorry ran into the car 's side sandwiching him in the wreckage . |
| 2 | He chose a place between two snoring servants and laid down to sleep , oblivious to the figure watching him from the shadows . |
| 3 | I ca n't see any horse beating him in the Kentucky Derby . |
| 4 | At one point they fell out and Schine chased Cohn through a hotel lobby swatting him over the head with a rolled-up magazine , to the delight of the large Press corps , who wrote stories headlined after the dialogue of the famous duo , ‘ Positively , Mr Cohn ! ’ and ‘ Absolutely , Mr Schine ! ’ |
| 5 | It had ended when he knocked her to the ground and slammed out of the room , hearing her laughter following him down the corridor . |
| 6 | When the goods have been dispatched , the manufacturer sends an advice note to the retailer informing him of the date and time of dispatch . |
| 7 | Maltote slumped down on the stool , his long sword catching him between the legs and nearly tipping him over on his face . |
| 8 | After making the running for the first circuit , he let Royal Cedar take a breather going down the back for the last time , with Seagram and Durham Edition leading him down the hill . |
| 9 | Rebecca West , representing the polite world of letters at this proletarian scene of retribution , was being told by an elderly man how he had come back from viewing his grandchildren 's bodies at the public mortuary and heard the voice of the condemned criminal mocking him over the radio . |
| 10 | One was a middle-aged man , rather corpulent , who sent a message into the depths behind his recess which finally produced an abashed female servant : and one was a spare man in young middle age who had his wife helping him in the shop . |
| 11 | I always knew I would be apprenticed to Joe as soon as I was old enough , and so I used to spend most of the day helping him in the forge . |
| 12 | The detectives who were not detectives after all stepped forward to meet him , one of them shaking hands , the other slapping him on the back . |
| 13 | Then , there was a mile of deep treacherous water separating him from the Forest of Dean . |
| 14 | This looked promising : 3 He is produced by fusion , there is an excessive abundance of the substance in volcanic gases so maybe here was the evidence staring him in the face that fusion is taking place among the volcanic rocks . |
| 15 | It 's only a matter of time now before they find some forensic evidence linking him to the scene of the crime . ’ |
| 16 | They do n't have any evidence linking him to the murder but you can be sure they 'll be watching his every move . |
| 17 | Steven Paterson denies helping Bailey try to destroy evidence linking him to the crime and the trial is continuing . |
| 18 | Last year the Republic refused to extradite Mr Ryan to Britain to face terrorism charges , including conspiracy to murder and cause explosions , on the grounds that allegations in the Press and Parliament linking him with the IRA meant he would not receive a fair trial in Britain . |
| 19 | When Willis came out , England were 197 ahead with 151 minutes and twenty overs left and there can not have been many who doubted West Indies would win , but with Willis lunging his left leg forward and Willey protecting him from the strike as much as possible , they began to put together a remarkable stand . |
| 20 | A male is caged on one side of a barrier separating him from the females in the same cage for 2 days . |
| 21 | Irony was to the fore when in 1925 he wrote of the Russian Revolution , but behind it was a more important urge leading him to the poem ‘ Le Voyage ’ of his favourite Baudelaire . |
| 22 | The Woman smashing him to the ground and beating at his face . |
| 23 | As he did he drove a fist hard into Connelly 's face , the impact propelling him across the kitchen . |
| 24 | In dreams he 'd drifted through these rooms , and heard the Maestro 's voice summoning him up the stairs , up ! up ! , to the room at the top where Sartori had worked his work . |
| 25 | The letter informing him of the sentence pronounced upon him was headed derisively : ‘ The Holy Synod to Nestorius the new Jew . ’ |
| 26 | Now it was a pillar of darkness covering him from the eyes of the watch as he stepped out from the trees and walked steadily across the open space of grass . |
| 27 | I cleared the gun and fired at the Corporal , the burst hitting him in the chest and knocking him backwards into a line of sheets which he brought winding down around him . |
| 28 | And then as they passed the Odeon cinema the man lunged at him with his walking stick beating him over the head and arms . |
| 29 | Once , he had sensed a presence following him on the trail . |
| 30 | ( 1 ) Before any third party is registered as the transferee of shares he will be asked to execute a deed of adherence binding him to the terms of the subscription and shareholders ' agreement . |