Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] him [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Nadirpur spoke to his office in Monaco and left instructions for contacting him at the IAP offices in London .
2 Suspended for a week by the club , fined £2,000 and dropped following misbehaviour at a supporters ' dinner , Merson spoke of the 89th-minute winner that restored Arsenal to the top as a personal thankyou to Arsenal 's players and staff for assisting him on the road to recovery .
3 It is worth reminding him of the fact that Japan 's economy grew by 4.5 per cent. , and ours shrank by 2.5 per cent .
4 BRITISH spy Ian Spiro left bloody fingerprints smeared on his son 's bedroom walls after blasting him in the head twice with a handgun .
5 REFEREE Peter Jevons threw a dictionary , so to speak , at Jeremy Tanner , 21 , after booking him during a match between Derbyshire village side West Hallam and local rivals Alvaston .
6 Rachel Still , 23 — who was living with a boyfriend in Wilmslow , Cheshire — drove off with husband Phillip after meeting him for a talk .
7 Michael Pearson , 19 , of Leeds , battered 19-year-old Dean Fisher to death after meeting him in a pub .
8 LITTLE Miss Bossy Emma Gardner keeps a firm grip on her brother after saving him from the clutches of a child abductor .
9 Young members of Prescot Swimming club gather round Stephen Orford , a member of the British Wheelchair basketball team , after presenting him with a cheque for £750 on behalf of the British Wheelchair Sports Foundation .
10 After approaching him on the street and ushering him into the house he told the boy ; ’ Welcome to the Devil 's Kingdom ’ and threatened to kill him if he did nt co-operate .
11 Josh had to be squeezed into Clare 's tight weekday schedule : after taking him to the babysitter in Pimlico , she caught another bus to the shoe shop where she worked .
12 Earlier , driver Geoffrey Wellens had stopped to ask Mr Thompson if he was alright after spotting him on the road .
13 VERA Daniels , 66 , was reunited yesterday with long-lost brother John Stokes , 63 — last seen in 1942 — after tracing him to a village TEN MILES from her home in Newcastle-under-Lyme , Staffs .
14 After spying him through the kitchen window with Mrs Files , so much himself , so much not Francis , I thought I did n't want to see him at all .
15 A MAN was jailed for six years at the High Court in Glasgow yesterday for his part in attempting to murder a man after luring him into a night of torture .
16 A WHEELCHAIR-bound man beat his love rival to death after luring him into a field , a court heard yesterday .
17 After leaving him on the bedroom floor , he returned to throw a jug of water in his father 's face .
18 Mr Sergei Shakhrai , a key Yeltsin adviser , said he was instigating legal proceedings against Mr Khasbulatov for insulting him in an interview .
19 IPSWICH TOWN general-manager John Lyall will thank Terry Venables tomorrow for saving him from the wilderness .
20 He cried for put him on the bed , could n't do no college work so I just went to bed and left him .
21 But last night , his angry wife accused the Government of using him as a scapegoat .
22 ‘ It was n't so much the shock of seeing him in a metal cage , it was the atmosphere of the place .
23 The climax of his tale is to profess to excuse Cassio — ‘ But men are men ; the best sometimes forget ’ ( 237 ) — an extremely effective way of indicting him in the eyes of those present .
24 She thought of ringing him on the off chance of catching him at the flat , but shelved the possibility as unlikely .
25 If your foe stoops on a ground unit and is locked in combat you 'll have a good chance of catching him in the flanks .
26 Tilson , who 's married and used to be a school cleaner , has n't been seen since the attack 3 weeks ago , and it 's for this reason , police have taken the unsual step of naming him as a suspect .
27 Instead of walking him round the beat , he should have taken him straight to the police station .
28 ‘ Many would subscribe towards sinking him to the ocean bed .
29 Miss Polly took his words as a compliment and treated him to a coy smile of invitation , meant to suggest that he should sit beside her ; but Sean had already marked Herbert Fraser for that position of honour , stopping just short of pushing him to the ground .
30 Anyone who had this kind of machine behind them must be important , so it had the effect of presenting him to the public as this bigger than life pop star which , if you look at his record sales at the time , he was n't , but he was becoming a media myth , some of this due to his own talent and some of it due to the MainMan hype machine .
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