Example sentences of "and [vb past] him [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then they peeled back the bedcovers and laid him on a crisp sheet , covering him from the waist down with another sheet . |
| 2 | Someone grabbed his arm , and led him to a waiting horse on which he galloped away leaving behind his winnings . |
| 3 | Sylvie wrapped her hand round Thomas 's arm and led him towards a far corner . |
| 4 | So with this going on we found our company would get on better if I had collateral so I wrote to this boy and asked him for a million and put it in a trust fund that I would get after his death , and we that way so okay . |
| 5 | He pounded Benichou to the body and caught him with a right cross to the chin at the end of the first . |
| 6 | After a reviving sip of coffee , she took a deep breath , flipped off her dark glasses , and fixed him with a level gaze . |
| 7 | His deputy , Robert Forgan , had satisfactory talks with Neil Francis Hawkins about the amalgamation of the New Party with the British Fascists , but the grand council of the British Fascists voted against a merger by one vote in May 1932 after its founder Rotha Lintorn Orman , who was very suspicious of Mosley and regarded him as a near communist , vigorously opposed the change . |
| 8 | The man held up a hand to silence Barak then turned to the guard beside him and dismissed him with a curt nod of the head . |
| 9 | Even so the men who stole a hundred pounds from him at his home in Witney still felt the need to punch and kick him and beat him with a wooden club . |
| 10 | Apart from helping with his wardrobe , LASMO also covered the costs of his tuition , accommodation and books , and provided him with a living allowance . |
| 11 | A second group of provincial delegates arrived in St Petersburg just after his appointment and provided him with a sympathetic audience for his opinions . |
| 12 | They insisted that Derek enter their car and drove him to a quiet layby a short distance away . |
| 13 | Indeed , to do so would mean the reversal of a process that has , since the sixteenth century , relentlessly parted the commoner from his freehold and common rights , and reduced him to a landless labourer . |
| 14 | Big-punching Wharton is also free of the agony in his right hand that plagued him for months and reduced him to a one-armed fighter when he was held to a draw by Londoner Lou Gent in November . |
| 15 | If Charlie had been a different man , a cultivated man or effeminate or living in a bygone age when tongues were more freely unloosed , he might now have embraced Jack and told him from a full heart how he entered wholly into his joy and would die for his happiness . |
| 16 | Blinked a few times instead and told him in a croaky voice that I 'd met Erica Upton twice and had sat next to her at dinner . |
| 17 | He saw Wycliffe and acknowledged him with a timid gesture . |
| 18 | The FSLN and Antonio Lacayo Oyanguren , the influential presidency minister , both accused Godoy of fomenting political unrest and linked him to a current mobilization of several hundred former contra rebels [ see below ] . |
| 19 | He stood up , long rifle and bayonet pointing , and challenged him in a frightened voice . |
| 20 | Of course , at last a train got him and killed him in a horrible way . |
| 21 | She patted his lapel , straightening the flower , and kissed him like a little girl . |
| 22 | Maxim scouted the cottage to make sure it was empty then helped George over the comer of the dry-stone wall where it seemed strongest and guided him under a face-high clothes-line strung across the little lawn . |
| 23 | John Ferrar knew Little Gidding to be too notorious to be safe , and guided him to a private house nearby . |
| 24 | We found him in a night club with his wife , and Flynn went straight up to him and flattened him with a single punch . |
| 25 | ‘ OK , ’ said Patsy , and hit him with a perfect straight left . |
| 26 | An immediate option for Tottenham was to have stripped the big centre-half of the captaincy at Elland Road and hit him with a hefty fine . |
| 27 | Paul grabbed the bat which Christie was carrying hidden up his sleeve , ran behind Mr Lavender and hit him with a single blow on the back of his unprotected head , said the prosecution . |
| 28 | The regime thus charged him with damage of government property and jailed him for a few months until he was released under a general amnesty . |
| 29 | Miss Polly took his words as a compliment and treated him to a coy smile of invitation , meant to suggest that he should sit beside her ; but Sean had already marked Herbert Fraser for that position of honour , stopping just short of pushing him to the ground . |
| 30 | He spotted McCoist unmarked at the far post , and reached him with a fine cross . |