Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] he [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bit o' glass 'ad caught him on the fore'ead , but otherwise we 'ad n't a scratch to show for it between us . |
| 2 | They tried to eject him from the podium . |
| 3 | ‘ You are naughty , wicked and bad , ’ she cried as she pretended to hit him over the head . |
| 4 | As he passed Garry he pretended to punch him in the arm . |
| 5 | Italian club Torino tried to tempt him to the land of loads of lira , but Nigel 's mother put the block on that move . |
| 6 | Marc got up , face like a thunder-cloud , the look he gave Peter designed to shrivel him on the spot . |
| 7 | ERIC Butler , a charity worker , fought back with his swordstick when a mugger tried to strangle him on the London Underground in 1987 . |
| 8 | I dived towards the scarlet streaks and touched him at once , but there was no movement in him , and when I tried to pull him to the surface , I could n't . |
| 9 | I asked if she remembered Old Red , and described meeting him in the subway , but not his current reputation , for that would have been less than tactful , as I hoped one day to marry them off , and unfair , since he had been so pleasant to me . |
| 10 | Our men tried to shoot him in the water , but it was dark , there was no moon — and we lost him . |
| 11 | Dalgliesh got out of the Jaguar and tried to extricate him from the pushchair , but the anatomy of the chair momentarily defeated him . |
| 12 | But the common story , so far as we can tell , was of a prospering contado helping a few of the citizens to be successful merchants , carrying local market goods and some from longer distances ; and if Francis ' father had not been a successful merchant trading into France , the saint would not have borne the name he did , nor suffered the intense reaction to his father 's worldly values which helped to inspire him on the path to poverty and heaven . |
| 13 | It was former Dublin manager Kevin Heffernan who , McGilligan reckons , helped to put him on the road to success . |
| 14 | But I 've got a lot of time for Tom Clarke , he 's a nice man and it would be absolutely disgusting if anyone tried to dump him at the moment . ’ |
| 15 | Anyway , the outcome was that the other members tried to expel him from the branch . |
| 16 | On one occasion , they tried to interest him in the piano but that finished within three weeks with two surprises . |
| 17 | BARNET chairman Stan Flashman has vowed he will ban any fans caught criticising him on the terraces . |
| 18 | She and Keith 's distraught fiancee Ann Sole desperately tried to save him with the kiss of life and heart massage . |
| 19 | In 1657 Crofton tried to bar him from the pulpit , as a heretic and troublemaker . |
| 20 | His talent for imaginative lying helped to elect him to the Senate after the war as ‘ Tail Gunner Joe ’ . |
| 21 | He then tried to toss him in the air . |
| 22 | As he approached the water she begged him to come with her and tried to drag him into the sea . |
| 23 | With Southampton trailing 2-1 and desperate for an equaliser , he grabbed the fan around the head and tried to drag him from the pitch . |
| 24 | ‘ We tried to sign him in the summer that we bought Jim Leighton from Aberdeen , but the money Brondby were asking was out of the question , ’ said Mr Ferguson . |
| 25 | I tried to picture him under the sheet . |
| 26 | She 'd heard him at the glass door — a double knock , very light . |
| 27 | They drove to see him at the Chapel of Repose . |
| 28 | She had the fleeting impression that she 'd caught him on the raw . |
| 29 | It was four hours later when they woke to find him at the foot of the bed saying : ‘ I 've got a gun and I 'm going to shoot you . ’ |
| 30 | He went to where he 'd seen him by the fence and looked down towards the woodpile . |