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Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] him [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
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	She 'd heard him at the glass door — a double knock , very light .
3	She had the fleeting impression that she 'd caught him on the raw .
4	He went to where he 'd seen him by the fence and looked down towards the woodpile .
5	Lucy reckoned that , for the man in charge , he had some staggeringly dull tasks to handle ; she 'd seen him in the stockroom once , counting every bottle in every crate of tonic water .
6	Almost inaudible in the crush , he thanked everyone who 'd helped him in the case .
7	I 'd known him from the start of punk .
8	He could n't help wondering if he 'd interrupted him in the act of copulation .
9	Perhaps if I 'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle , he might have sold .
10	We 'd entered him in the Novice section , but he 'd been upgraded in the meantime .
11	Miranda thought of M. Apéritif last night , and decided she would let him go further when she next saw him , in spite of the lizard darting of his small and oddly hard tongue in the kiss she 'd allowed him at the door of the hotel .
12	Vernon was arrested for leading an armed attack on the then Branch Davidian leader one George who 'd thrown him off the property .
13	She 'd taken him from the town and the friends that he knew and she 'd brought him to this great , dusty mausoleum of a place where he did n't even like to run around because the echo of his footsteps sounded too much like someone faceless who was following too close .
14	He had needed to wind down after the spiralling tensions of the day , and once again he felt the company warmth and support that had sustained him through the day .
15	The householder claimed that the burglar had jumped him in the dark and so he had stabbed him .
16	She had taught him with the thrashing that he would be punished if he was caught !
17	And then Viola Angotti had taken one more step , and with a faint sigh she had socked him in the stomach so hard that he had doubled over and lost his lunch .
18	In September 1960 Blake and his family arrived in Beirut where MI6 had enrolled him at the language school known as the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies .
19	And the Cid sent for all his friends and his kinsmen and vassals , and told them how King Don Alfonso had banished him from the land , and asked for them who would follow him into banishment , and who would remain at home .
20	Sitting on the ground in front of it were the two constables who had delayed him at the dovecot during the arms search .
21	It was also believed that Menelik visited his father Solomon , and on his departure contrived to substitute a copy of the Ark of the Covenant that his father had given him for the original , which he then carried off to Aksum .
22	780 Ealdhun also gave lands which Ecgberht had given him to the familia of Christ Church ( CS 293 : S 155 ; cf. , CS 319 , 320 : S 1259 and CS 332 : S 1264 ) .
23	He did not fit the description of Jim Lancaster that Blanche had given him in the car that morning .
24	A few of his followers had joined him on the dais .
25	He looked behind confirming that his body had joined him from the ground .
26	It had been Intelligence 's own Self Inflicted Wound that had lifted him from the status of a policeman to that of a ranking diplomat .
27	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 .
28	After he 'd been coaxed out of the cart in the yard , three serving women had carried him into the house .
29	The man had approached him on the street while he was walking home , head down against the wind .
30	He could see that whatever was agitating his friend had pushed him to the limit but he judged it better to let him get it off his chest than keep it bottled up .