Example sentences of "[subord] the [noun] [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the jury acquitted him on one murder charge , it was deadlocked over a second and a riot charge , and a retrial was arranged for Sept. 17 . |
| 2 | Although the show elevated him from struggling stand-up comic to greeting card icon in two short series , last spring Damon bailed out of In Living Color to devote his energies to writing and starring in films . |
| 3 | But if he was going to carry the coffin he had to go to the funeral service , so the Church had him by the balls again , as it had , more or less , since he was born . |
| 4 | The buyer exercised the option , but then did not complete the contract , so the seller took him to court . |
| 5 | After prosecutors presented evidence that he had money stashed away in overseas accounts , it was ruled that Mr Dixon must stay in jail until the judge sentences him in February . |
| 6 | The carpenter looked at him , then at Benedicta and , throwing back his head , laughed hysterically until the porter struck him across the face . |
| 7 | They watched until the cloud hid him from view . |
| 8 | If a secured creditor omits to disclose his security in his proof of debt , he must surrender it for the general benefit of creditors unless the court relieves him on the ground that omission was inadvertent or the result of honest mistake ( r 6.116 ) . |
| 9 | An elderly gent wandering the streets talking to himself about his secret wedding to his ward tomorrow ( because the plot requires him to be overheard so she 'll find out ) is the sort of thing you can only get away with in opera . |
| 10 | The owner of a firearm is none the less owner because the law prohibits him from discharging it in a public highway ; the owner of a field does not cease to be owner because the public or a neighbour has the right to use a footpath across it . |
| 11 | With military-style precision , one gunman stayed to guard the man 's family , while the other took him to the Banque de France where at least four others were waiting . |
| 12 | One gunman stayed to guard the man 's family , while the other took him to the Banque de France in Toulon , France , where four others were waiting . |
| 13 | With one hand Taheb did the same , while the other guided him into her . |
| 14 | He 's gone to ground since The Sun named him as the man who passed on a tape of a telephone call allegedly made by the Princess of Wales to an admirer on New Year 's Eve 1989 . |
| 15 | Andrew Chubb , prosecuting , claimed Blissett elbowed Uzzell after the defender beat him to the ball and headed it away . |
| 16 | Probably Rossi was suggested by the Barberini brothers on account of the preponderantly spectacular nature of his earlier Palazzo incantato , but in Orfeo he revealed genuine expressive power , above all in Euridice 's arias in the second scene of Act II , the exquisite trio of dryads ‘ Dormite , begliocchi ’ ( are working of a movement from the serenata , ‘ Horche in notturna pace ’ ) , the chorus of nymphs ‘ Ah ! piangete ’ following her death , and Orfeo 's great lament in Act II before the Bacchantes tear him to pieces . |
| 17 | When Dustin heard news of the ensuing blaze , he rushed back to the scene , and was able to push through the gaping crowds to pull three of his modern paintings and a Tiffany lampshade from the smoke-filled Federal-style building , before the police prevented him from re-entering the house . |
| 18 | He was still turning when the cosh struck him behind the ear . |
| 19 | He then turns onto his hemiplegic side when the carer tells him to , and the carer guides the movement with one hand on the patient 's shoulder , the other on his pelvis . |
| 20 | When the jury robbed him of justice , they took it personally . |
| 21 | Wilson , more respectfully treated at Lord 's , where he recently stood down as MCC coach , than in his native county , offered Carrick wise counsel when the youngster replaced him in the Yorkshire side . |
| 22 | ‘ When the judge sentenced him to five years I felt like shouting out ‘ thank you ’ , ’ said Kate Connolly . |
| 23 | Pease had been taking part in a march through the capital , Lima , when the officer shot him at close range with bird shot . |
| 24 | Brutus also says that he will also kill himself with the same sword as he killed Caesar with , when the country wishes him to . |
| 25 | But when the RSPCA found him in January , he was in a starved condition , his ribs and hip bones showing through , and his back legs hardly able to support him . |
| 26 | He had actually succeeded in drifting forward and downward again , when the voice drew him to a stop once more . |
| 27 | He was surprised when the girl asked him for threepence . |
| 28 | The pensioner tackled him but was overpowered when the raider threatened him with a 6in kitchen knife , before escaping . |
| 29 | When the Mirror confronted him over the damning documents , he said : ‘ Somebody could easily falsify records . ’ |
| 30 | The ruling means that Newall will be a step closer to freedom when the hearing to extradite him to Jersey re-opens on Wednesday . |