Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb past] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But when Mr Wray punched him , Youngs picked up the hammer and struck him across the cheek . |
| 3 | I struck out feebly in self-defence and hit him across the chest , which increased his rage . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ He went to put his hand inside his jacket , then another passenger jumped out of his seat and threw him through the doors . |
| 6 | She threw her arms round his neck and kissed him on the lips , enveloping him in discreetly expensive perfume . |
| 7 | He grabbed Rodomonte by the scruff of the neck and pushed him towards the light , holding his nose inches away from the crackling fluorescence . |
| 8 | He tried protesting to Selkirk , who simply struck him across the mouth and pushed him through the metal-studded door . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They then bundled him out of the car and left him on the road . |
| 11 | I picked up a marrowbone and hit him on the head . |
| 12 | But Patsy decided she needed a hand with the unpacking and phoned him from the car on the way home . |
| 13 | I had to catch up the axe and hit him with the blunt end , knock him out . |
| 14 | Jane slid on to his lap and kissed him on the mouth . |
| 15 | He crossed to the guard and tapped him on the arm . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She went to the window and watched him into the street , then into his car , then out of sight . |
| 18 | But when he did , a single shot fired from the van shattered the driver 's window and hit him in the back , killing him . |
| 19 | But he would concede nothing , and in the end I gave him a dry little bow and thanked him for the tea . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I remember when Mike was a baby and I went home with my shopping and left him at the check-out in Sainsbury 's . |
| 22 | Somebody shot the undertaker while he sat indoors in his shirt sleeves , stripped him of his remaining clothing and pushed him in the sea at the sewage outfall at or near high water . |
| 23 | If you like I could have a word with the Chief Constable and put him in the picture , should you deem it appropriate . ’ |
| 24 | PCs Thomas McGrath , 45 , and John Milliken , 54 , chased their victim into an alleyway and battered him to the ground . |
| 25 | They followed Fiver up the run and overtook him at the entrance . |
| 26 | He received Mark in the central lobby and took him to the Members ' tea room for a chat over a pot of tea . |
| 27 | He ignored her enquiry so she hauled herself out , slipped on a long T-shirt and followed him into the other room . |
| 28 | The selectors kept faith and picked him for the first Test at Edgbaston , where he bowled 42 overs without trouble , taking four wickets in his maiden Test , which England won , fairly comfortably , but 100 runs . |
| 29 | She got hold of him by the hair and dragged him to the police station , ’ he said . |
| 30 | The shapechanger grabbed Chopra 's hair and pulled him off the ground . |