Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [vb past] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ And he sacked him on the spot . |
| 32 | And he pushed him into the shed just as light filled the yard again . |
| 33 | Last night at our gig in Cardiff there was a bouncer at the front and he caught a youngster and he hit him in the throat , and he could have killed him . |
| 34 | He had sailed to Ninfania from Illyria , in a big double bass of a galleon , with a prow carved like a volute , and it brought him to the shore in the harbour he then designated Ribaris , after the peak where the Ark had come to rest , once all the waters of the flood had drained out of the plughole of divine fury . |
| 35 | This meant that he never fought them on his own terms , always theirs , and it blinded him to the realisation that when all else failed , when all the appeals for ‘ fair play ’ fell on stony ground , that he could have utilised his mass following of workers to shake the ground beneath the Empire . |
| 36 | When Endill opened the door they creaked in the draught and it reminded him of the old hanging tree beside the front gate back home at Gibbet Hall . |
| 37 | but I saw him on the television last week , breakfast T V , not last week , week before , just before I got into work , and this woman on the television asking this stupid question , she said why do n't you put any opposition up in Parliament , and he hit the roof , but what the television did , they did n't switch off when he played bloody hell with 'em , excuse my French er President , but this is how it went , he could n't give a damn about you bloody lot , he kept the television on , it just showed his frustration . |
| 38 | I do n't think he meant it , looking back , but I believed him at the time . |
| 39 | But I told him about the telly that it 's a bit beyond redemption . |
| 40 | I went to punch him but I caught him with the crowbar instead . ’ |
| 41 | ‘ New-fangled ’ ideas , the farmer said , but I convinced him in the end . |
| 42 | ‘ Go on — it will cheer you up ’ but I dismissed him like the rest , saying I was not thirsty , despising the thought of drinking from the same grimy bottle which a rogue had . |
| 43 | In. , Finally , the boy tried to squirm past her like a silverfish but she had him by the hair and was breaking the rifle over his head and shoulders when my father stopped her . |
| 44 | but she saw him on the way to work in town , had a bloody great barney with him on the market place on the way to work , just say , she was in there about ten minutes and burst into tears |
| 45 | The teenager tried to run away when the youths approached him but they punched him in the face and pushed him to the ground . |
| 46 | He tried to get away in his wheelchair , but they caught him in the hallway . |
| 47 | Nicol gave as good an account of himself as any of us , elder though he may be , and kept the key of the coffer safe , but they threw him off the cart , and coffer and all are gone , for it was there among the coppice wood . |
| 48 | Lord Harris admits Robertson has ‘ some weaknesses that , if not curbed , could totally cancel out his strengths ’ , but he defended him before the academic advisory council , on the grounds that he had not been sufficiently protected by guidelines , and that it would be difficult to find a replacement with his many gifts . |
| 49 | But it got him in the end . |