Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [vb past] [to-vb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The college failed to elect him to the Bye-Fellowship . |
| 2 | The wind threatened to pluck him like a ripe orange off a tree . |
| 3 | When the council sought to evict him for non-payment of the extra rent he pleaded in defence that the resolution was invalid . |
| 4 | And with Earl Robert the saint condescended to tease him with a paradox ! |
| 5 | The question seemed to amuse him in some way . |
| 6 | Cranston sat on the bed just staring at the corpse as if the man was alive and the coroner wished to draw him into friendly conversation . |
| 7 | The tentacle started to pull him across the floor . |
| 8 | 1156 followed its own decision in Rex v. Sheridan and applied it to facts which differed from those in Rex v. Sheridan only in that the defendant had there consented to be tried by a stipendiary magistrate and had pleaded guilty before the magistrate decided to commit him for trial on indictment . |
| 9 | The clerk of the court refused to supply him with the names of the lay justices who had decided it , pursuant to a policy which was being adopted by an increasing number of magistrates courts of declining to identify justices to the public or the press . |
| 10 | The name seemed to halt him for a moment , but when his hands were again moving over her , the scream she let out crying , ‘ Mother ! |
| 11 | The international winger Sergeant George Wall of the 11th Black Watch and Manchester United offered to play for City but the taxi sent to collect him from the station waited in vain . |
| 12 | The tribunal had to discharge him from hospital . |
| 13 | The glass was bullet-proof , sky-proof , sea-proof , plant-proof , stone-proof , everything-proof and he refused to come out of it , not even when the Headmaster threatened to throw him to the giant eel for being so cowardly . |
| 14 | In view of the complaints of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the virulence of Leese 's propaganda , the government tried to silence him through recourse to the law . |
| 15 | Pronouncing the word seemed to bring him to his senses . |
| 16 | Vega went ahead with his set , playing material from his recent ‘ Deuce Avenue ’ album , while the audience began to shower him with beer and spit . |
| 17 | Vega went ahead with his set , playing material from his recent ‘ Deuce Avenue ’ album , while the audience began to shower him with beer and spit . |
| 18 | There was one occasion when he went into a café and asked for tea and then while he waited he suddenly saw a solution to a theological argument which he had with Leslie Owen the warden , and his waving of hands was so convulsive that the café refused to serve him with the tea . |
| 19 | Mr McTear , a former 60-a-day smoker , is suing Imperial Tobacco for damages , claiming that the company failed to warn him of health hazards when he took up smoking in the mid 1960s . |
| 20 | The activity seemed to rouse him from his stupor . |
| 21 | Their theme was simplicity itself : the precentor wished to become a monk ; the bishop wished to retain him in the service of the cathedral . |
| 22 | I am sure that the House wished to join him in sending its sympathy to the many victims , some of whom may have suffered irreparable damage . |
| 23 | Far from resenting Lucien 's new-found favour , the other vibrancers in the house began to treat him with a new respect once his alliance with Jeopardy became common knowledge . |