Example sentences of "[noun prp] by [v-ing] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Mr. Pegg was convicted on 25 March 1985 before Caulfield J. and a jury of the murder of one Peter Goddard by stabbing him with a knife .
2 A jury had earlier convicted Duncan of assaulting Andrew Clarkson by punching him on the head and body to his severe injury and permanent disfigurement .
3 The court heard that Mr Farmer , who was shot four times , died saving his father Robert by pushing him to the floor and shouting a warning when he spotted the gunman .
4 On June 15 the military expressed their support for Gen. Chaovalit by appointing him as a special adviser to the Internal Security Command , the Supreme Command , and the combined armed forces .
5 At the end of the opera , Parsifal heals Amfortas by touching him with a spear , and Kundry is able , at last , to die .
6 But it was the unanimous view of the board that it manifested contempt towards the divinity of Christ by presenting him as a living man , not a symbol , and as the object of overt sexual passion .
7 Estella and Miss Havisham reduce the reader 's sympathy towards Pip by turning him into a snob at the beginning and Magwitch helps to redeem Pip at the end by bringing out his loyalty .
8 He had punished Gionesca by putting him in the horse trough and that was it .
9 Diana has helped Charles by bringing him into the modern era , teasing him and leavening his spirits , and keeping him young and abreast of young people 's thinking .
10 All I did was to congratulate Mark by patting him on the thigh , ’ said Roger Hoad .
11 ENGLAND manager Graham Taylor has recognised the outstanding form of Middlesbrough goalkeeper Stephen Pears by including him in a B squad for a friendly in Czechoslovakia next Tuesday .
12 The ANC was strongly opposed to such a meeting on the grounds that it would give undeserved legitimacy to Buthelezi by treating him as a leader of equivalent standing .
13 Despite , realistically , plenty of opportunity , there is no illicit sex between Nicholas and Alison until the pleasure of their union can be enhanced by Nicholas truly having replaced John by tricking him into a contrived " absence " .
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