Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [vb past] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if you do n't want to hear it … ’ he made as if to go but Herr Nordern took him by the elbow . |
| 2 | Patrick Devlin regarded him as the most effective speaker of his time : |
| 3 | Mountbatten 's task was not simplified when General MacArthur saddled him with the additional responsibility of taking over Indonesia and Indo-China , previously within the American sphere . |
| 4 | Britain 's golden boy who lost his shine when newcomer David Grindley beat him for the final place in today 's 400 metres final is ready to take a year off from the track if it means he can beat the trouble . |
| 5 | David Beaton clapped him on the shoulder . |
| 6 | Lucy Lane told him about the journal . |
| 7 | Oh yeah , he told me afterwards right , that he , the only reason he was angry was because Friday night reminded him of the time in his past or something ! |
| 8 | The man was disabled eight months after the soldiers died when UVF men shot him in the back . |
| 9 | In 1979 Serjeant 's former employer Richard Sheppard recommended him for the post of Surveyor to the Royal Academy . |
| 10 | Hundreds of people were expected to attend the service for Mr Peacock , who died in his teenage daughter 's arms minutes after UVF gunmen shot him in the back at his north Belfast house . |
| 11 | When Dr Henry approached him , Dr Williams hit him on the side of the head and sent his glasses flying . |
| 12 | Dr Tariq told him of the death of Professor Khan , of the defection of the two French engineers , and of the Italian laboratory engineers , of a letter bomb that had been received , correctly addressed , to the same complex , to the very building alongside the one in which he now sat . |
| 13 | ‘ Rodney Martin beat him in the 1991 World Championship and I 've beaten Martin , so anything is possible , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Fenella Fielding saw him in the play there . |
| 15 | Sergeant Bird followed him into the parkland at a leisurely pace , then watched from behind a tree as the fugitive made three attempts at the lowest portion of the wall . |
| 16 | The man they called The Fat One — Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering — was enjoying himself when Karlheinz Pintsch rang him with the news . |
| 17 | All these sights and sounds alone would have fascinated Joseph 's young mind , but the murmured talk of deities and devils beyond his imaginings coming from the grave-faced little mandarin pacing at his side established the walled city of palaces lastingly in his mind as a place of deep mystery and enchantment , and by the time Tran Van Hieu delivered him to the governor 's aide outside the Palace of Perfect Concord he was almost ready to believe he would see a live white tiger curled up contentedly with a blue dragon around the emperor 's feet . |
| 18 | Sister Cooney took him by the arm and he went with her , unresisting . |
| 19 | After the Labour victory of 1929 , Ramsay MacDonald considered him for the post of Foreign Secretary . |
| 20 | Ahmad Soungui , hitherto Foreign Minister , became Minister of Information and Culture , and the former Minister of Information , Culture and Tourism , Mahamat Saleh Ahmat replaced him at the Foreign Ministry . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | When Mr Heath sacked him from the Shadow Cabinet in 1968 after he had paraphrased Virgil 's Aeneid and with foreboding claimed to see ‘ the River Tiber foaming with much blood ’ he began a journey into the wilderness . |
| 24 | The boy showed little talent for the business and hardly earned the £2 10s Mr Marshall paid him at the end of the week . |
| 25 | Dean has worked with the company for many years , and general manager Alun Williams presented him with the gift of his choice — an electric drill . |
| 26 | Mr. Gilbert hit him on the head several times with the bottle and they were both kicked . |
| 27 | Igor Stravinsky met him for the first time in this year , and recalled how shy he seemed . |
| 28 | Mr Utterson led him to the address on Mr Hyde 's visiting card . |
| 29 | When the meal was over , Sir Charles escorted him into the library . |
| 30 | A week later , Warren Beatty grabbed him for the role of Clyde 's brother Buck in Bonnie and Clyde , for which he would gain an Oscar nomination . |