Example sentences of "[vb past] him [prep] [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | From Tripoli the advance into Tunisia involved him in some of the bitterest fighting of the war : in the Matmata Hills on the outflanking of the Mareth Line ; at Wadi Akarit , where he had a narrow escape when he received ( as he modestly put it , doubtless so as not to worry me unduly ) ‘ a wallop from a piece of spent shell ’ , but was not badly injured ; and at the drive north to Enfidaville . |
| 2 | In January 1950 Averell Harriman , a man whose international experience distinguished him from many of the more parochial critics , protested that the British chancellor of the exchequer 's narrow economic vision was sabotaging Western European integration . |
| 3 | Men are portrayed as being powerless : CB LOLITA , 13 , HAD SEX ON THE SLIDE ( ‘ A girl of 13 had sex on a kiddies ' playground slide with a young man she contacted over CB radio , a court heard yesterday ’ ) ; Bedtime antics of a ‘ latter-day Lolita ’ ( ‘ A 13-year-old girl … described as a ‘ latter-day Lolita ’ went to bed with one man … and then swapped him for another in the same room ’ ) ; Girl , 15 , tempted her mother 's man ( ‘ She had made propositions to him three times which he resisted before succumbing ’ ) ; Sex-case man goes to jail ( Defence counsel claimed ‘ the initiative in the sexual relationship came from the girl ’ ) ; CABBlE 'S TEEN SEX SESSIONS ( ‘ Taxi driver … found the cheeky advances of a teenage Lolita hard to resist ’ ) ; CHOIRMASTER AND GIRL , 15 ( ‘ I was tempted and that 's all ’ ) ; Girl gave rapist sex lesson ( ‘ A 14-year-old girl put out a challenge to a convicted rapist … . |
| 4 | Wally Smott 's mediocrity raised him above many of the managers who guided the club over the years , but Athletico reserved a bottom six position from 1951 to 1955 and Ken Mentle 's dream of League football became a nightmare . |
| 5 | Was n't it about time she put him through some of the agony he 'd caused her ? |
| 6 | The Earl of Argyll , Archibald Campbell , introduced him to many of the Scottish nobles , and he found some of them less objectionable than he 'd expected . |
| 7 | Bob introduced him to some of the usual crowd , and Morris asked Bill Waddy , who was buying , for a Pernod . |