Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] him [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 | 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 | I 'd seen him in the Feathers , surly in his own corner of the Snug , not liked by , not liking , the other villagers . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It did n't hurt that much , but he pretended she 'd got him in the balls , hoping for a little wifely penitence . |
| 8 | She 'd told him about the looks aimed at her by Adam 's teachers . |
| 9 | Almost inaudible in the crush , he thanked everyone who 'd helped him in the case . |
| 10 | I 'd known him from the start of punk . |
| 11 | He could n't help wondering if he 'd interrupted him in the act of copulation . |
| 12 | Perhaps if I 'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle , he might have sold . |
| 13 | We 'd entered him in the Novice section , but he 'd been upgraded in the meantime . |
| 14 | That she 'd introduced him to the Fletchers to keep him there … well , she deserved it . |
| 15 | Through the crowd round the barrels William saw the priest who 'd officiated at the funeral and who 'd asked him about the hymns . |
| 16 | She 'd followed him into the Rockingham public house by the Elephant and Castle . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Vernon was arrested for leading an armed attack on the then Branch Davidian leader one George who 'd thrown him off the property . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The householder claimed that the burglar had jumped him in the dark and so he had stabbed him . |
| 22 | She had taught him with the thrashing that he would be punished if he was caught ! |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Sitting on the ground in front of it were the two constables who had delayed him at the dovecot during the arms search . |
| 27 | He filled the kettle and set it on the hob , then went through to the front room , closed the shutters , and tried radioing on the frequency Caspar had given him for the US Embassy in Belpan City . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | At the slow , jerking speed of city traffic at night , he drove toward the address that Ashdown had given him for the rendezvous . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |