Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] him [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inevitably , his steps led him in the end to the Corso , where the evening promenade was in progress . |
| 2 | He told various stories when journalists interviewed him about the book and pryed into his background . |
| 3 | Her eyes beseeched him for the truth . |
| 4 | But as he made his getaway , shoppers wrestled him to the ground forcing him to drop the stolen loot — along with £200 he had stashed in a pocket — and he fled empty-handed . |
| 5 | And we would have seen how her eyes followed him to the door . |
| 6 | A white dog with torn ears followed him into the room . |
| 7 | We had climbed together a couple of weeks before at Goat Crag , where I was once again reminded how suited Fanshawe is to upward progress ; a powerful frame and seemingly hydraulic legs brought him to the crag aeons before I arrived . |
| 8 | One of Nogai 's brothers slapped him on the shoulder , but Burun shouted , ‘ Which target were you aiming at , Nogai ? ’ |
| 9 | In the 1470s the closest parallel is to be found in the north midlands , where Hastings ' possession of the key duchy of Lancaster offices put him at the head of the royal connection in the region . |
| 10 | In the 1470s the closest parallel is to be found in the north midlands , where Hastings ' possession of the key duchy of Lancaster offices put him at the head of the royal connection in the region . |
| 11 | A shower of jeers greeted him from the queue and , as he passed the last boy , who was just out of sight of Mr Gillis , a foot shot out , caught him on the ankle and down he went , sprawling on the wooden floor . |
| 12 | Rebels stopped him at the airport but his whereabouts were not known last night . |
| 13 | ‘ What am I supposed to do ? ’ he said in an aggrieved tone but ( fortunately , Nutty thought ) a misguided girl in puce trousers hit him over the head with a handbag and he launched himself instantly at his aggressor , being no respecter of the female sex , and thereby deflected a fair amount of Jazz 's opposition on to himself , the girl 's screaming indignation making her plight quite plain . |
| 14 | His reports on the collections brought him to the notice of the British scientific establishment and led to his appointment as naturalist in HMS Bulldog during a voyage under the command of Sir Leopold M ‘ Clintoch in 1860 to investigate a possible northern route for the proposed north Atlantic telegraph cable . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | We will provide evidence that these qualities and critical observations led him to the conclusion that wheat products contained the factor responsible for the severe clinical symptoms of coeliac disease , at that time also called Gee-Herter 's disease , long before this thesis in 1950 . |
| 17 | Taking advantage of the discretionary powers granted him by the tsar , he asked for a treaty guaranteeing Russia 's right to a protectorate over the Orthodox Christians of the Ottoman Empire . |
| 18 | The gods turned him into the flower that bears his name . |
| 19 | Webb , 28 , who played for Northern until his medical studies took him to the west country , said : ‘ You 're a long time retired . |
| 20 | John Browne 's neighbours buried him at the gable-end of his humble cottage . |
| 21 | The passengers pulled him onto the rock . |
| 22 | The farmers ' wives indulged him in the harshness of his religious practices , never minding that he brought his own delph and cutlery and would eat only boiled eggs and bread . |
| 23 | Conflicts with his superiors deprived him of the prospect of promotion , and at the age of twenty-five he found himself on the retired list , reduced to half pay in 1812 . |
| 24 | Joseph had been the guardian of the women and children throughout the long march , and though he conferred constantly with the other headmen , the whites regarded him as the figurehead of the Nez Perce resistance . |
| 25 | The players told him after the game that the lights did not trouble them as much as sunlight . |
| 26 | One of the youths slashed him across the nose and he needed eight stitches in the wound . |
| 27 | Some bullets hit him in the air and more bullets hit him as he lay on the ground . |
| 28 | Everyone at the Palace was pleased when Mel won an FA Cup winner 's medal with Southampton in 1976 , but he re-appeared briefly in our colours on loan in the winter of 1977–78 and his extra half-dozen games took him into the elite group of those who have played over 250 first class matches for our club . |
| 29 | A few easy moves brought him to the sanctuary of the belay ledge . |
| 30 | In recognition of his enormous contribution to world tennis , fellow ITF members presented him during the World Champions Dinner in the elegant Pavilion Gabriel in Paris , during the French Open , with a specially commissioned bust , complete with that pugnacious chin which perfectly reflects the determined response he has always presented to any potentially damaging challenge . |