Example sentences of "of [pron] [verb] him [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Mosley did find kindred spirits in the Labour movement , some of whom followed him into the New Party and a smaller proportion into fascism , but although the party conference and the Labour movement in general were sympathetic to his practical suggestions , the Labour government rejected his proposals .
2 Here is one example of what the new crime amounted to : ‘ Suddenly set upon by two men , one of whom seized him by the throat and threw him upon the ground , whilst the other thrust a quantity of mud in his mouth ’ ( The Daily News , 15 December 1862 ) .
3 It does not take much to imagine the effect of this on a group of already dispirited players , all of whom held him in the warmest affection .
4 The point dogs catch him and one of them nips him on the leg — take that for being more popular with the boss .
5 George , at one stage , tried to get up , but one of them hit him over the head with his rifle .
6 This one act of his expelled him into the wilderness more forcibly than any other , just as it did the novelist George Gissing in England .
7 Well you see , what Freud had to explain here was how he could have had such a long dream when the dreamer reported that he woke up more or less instantly from the stimulus of something hitting him on the back of the neck .
8 Taken aback by her anger and foreseeing the likelihood of her leaving him on the strength of it , Jeremy switches tactics to conciliation .
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