Example sentences of "[v-ing] him [prep] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is his letter of March 1094 to the bishop of Salisbury , instructing him in the name of himself and the king to take action about the case of the daughter of the king of Scotland , who had left the nunnery at Wilton and who — as Anselm and King William had agreed — was to be forced to return . |
| 2 | It is also possible to see Baker as a ‘ lightning rod ’ for the president , protecting him from the ire of conservative ideologues who , by definition , would never be satisfied with less than the whole loaf . |
| 3 | REFEREE Peter Jevons threw a dictionary , so to speak , at Jeremy Tanner , 21 , after booking him during a match between Derbyshire village side West Hallam and local rivals Alvaston . |
| 4 | But he might not always meet her calling or her waiting , for men , too , were bidding him to the sound of axe and plough and sword . ’ |
| 5 | Fat chance , thought Leonora , unable to resist keeping him in the dark about whether Elise was going with her . |
| 6 | The dunnie , or doonie , most especially delights in taking an unsuspecting victim for a wild ride and then tossing him into a pile of mud or manure . |
| 7 | She intended to plead her own nervousness and her desire not to be destined for public exhibition and planned to finish by thanking him for the compliment of his request and wishing him well in finding a more practised model . |
| 8 | At one point they fell out and Schine chased Cohn through a hotel lobby swatting him over the head with a rolled-up magazine , to the delight of the large Press corps , who wrote stories headlined after the dialogue of the famous duo , ‘ Positively , Mr Cohn ! ’ and ‘ Absolutely , Mr Schine ! ’ |
| 9 | He went back for the President , lifting him from behind by both elbows and walking him into the shower with his boxer shorts and his sandals on . |
| 10 | I hated myself for wounding him , and for perhaps driving him to a life of wickedness , or even death . |
| 11 | Jess asked , though she 'd noticed the questions seemed to be driving him like a snail into his shell . |
| 12 | Brown was found guilty after trial of assaulting Mr Kelly , 23 , by punching and kicking him about the head and body , seizing hold of him , stabbing him on the body with a knife and to the danger of his life . |
| 13 | David Anderson has been acquitted on a jury 's not proven verdict of murdering Raymond Mullan three years ago by stabbing him through the heart with a hunting knife . |
| 14 | Examine a scene from the play where one boy creeps up on another and then springs on him stabbing him in the back with his knife . |
| 15 | The narrative maximizes Stepan 's vulnerability , perching him on a platform amid the malcontents and troublemakers and the much larger number of those humble , obscure people who are enduring more or less passively the chaos of the fête . |
| 16 | The man showed his gratitude by recommending him to the Bishop for ordination . |
| 17 | After a while they kidnap and murder a young boy for kicks , bashing him over the head with a blunt instrument . |
| 18 | A win for Akinwande , who beat the much-hyped Herbie Hide for the 1989 ABA title , will elevate him close to a world top-10 rating , if not pushing him into the elite of one of the four organisations . |
| 19 | All her life she had striven to please him , loving him with no proof of any affection given in return . |
| 20 | Hazel sat nibbling and biting , the rich , full taste of the cultivated roots filling him with a wave of pleasure . |
| 21 | You did us a great service in warning him of the threat to his life , Isabel . |
| 22 | ‘ Well … we 're hardly strangers any more , are we ? ’ she demanded , thrusting her hands into her pockets and eyeing him with a trace of annoyance . |
| 23 | Merrill took a sip of her martini , eyeing him over the rim of her glass . |
| 24 | Earlier , a former police consatble , Patrick Stennett , told of stopping Hagans and searching him on a footbridge between the council office and a staff car park , half an hour before Mrs McGurk died . |
| 25 | The ‘ plane bumped , rolling Forster roughly to one side , catapulting him into the bleakness of reality . |
| 26 | Detectives have been hunting him since the discovery of a bomb factory in a London flat shortly before last Christmas . |
| 27 | She had dismissed him quite brutally , relegating him to the status of a passing fancy , or less . |
| 28 | A DUBLIN-BASED policeman has won a legal battle to prevent the Garda Commissioner from dismissing him from the force for allegedly offering a prostitute IR£30 for sex . |
| 29 | When working with the patient who considers himself a consistent failure in a particular area of his life , part of that treatment may well involve regressing him to the time of one of these earlier successes . |
| 30 | He admired Tiller , describing him as a genius at organizing and directing his Girls but also noting that John ordered everyone about in a dictatorial way . |