Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [verb] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | BARNET chairman Stan Flashman has vowed he will ban any fans caught criticising him on the terraces . |
| 2 | In a daring helicopter operation supporters had freed him from the prison on Naos Island , off Panama City , on Dec. 4 . |
| 3 | Beryl 's words had impressed him at the time because they summed up his own vague feeling that what had happened and what was happening might be consequences of the old man 's cynical , even malicious contrivings . |
| 4 | It was not until the oriental had addressed the armed newcomer with the blackened face , that the two youngsters had recognised him as the private detective Brett Grant . |
| 5 | He first acquired a great deal of Gilbert and Sullivan , because his father was keen on the Savoy operas , but eventually John turned to ballet music because of the tales his parents had told him about the Diaghilev Ballet . |
| 6 | He kept glancing north to make certain no enemy troops appeared to pin him against the river . |
| 7 | Quick wit and cleverness at school had shifted him quickly from his roots in the Belfast underclass , and his natural proclivities had led him to the theatre set , a wee bit of acting and extra-work from time to time , usually as a gunman or a thug and once , memorably , as a rather well-fed hungerstriker . |
| 8 | Iain reported that Tim Moulds had informed him about the present situation . |
| 9 | Doctors fought to save him in the days afterward . |
| 10 | Anyway , the outcome was that the other members tried to expel him from the branch . |
| 11 | Our men tried to shoot him in the water , but it was dark , there was no moon — and we lost him . |
| 12 | Two men had followed him up the stairs . |
| 13 | Ashi had met him during the height of the oil boom , when the late Shah was pouring the country 's new-found wealth into creating an entire new infrastructure for a land that had hardly changed since biblical times . |
| 14 | One of his wins had qualified him for the National so when he came up for sale at Doncaster , Kempton secured him for 2,000 guineas on behalf of two of his owners who were keen to have a runner in the race . |
| 15 | After he 'd been coaxed out of the cart in the yard , three serving women had carried him into the house . |
| 16 | A few of his followers had joined him on the dais . |