Example sentences of "a [noun] [vb past] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | A branch whipped him in the face . |
2 | A wave slapped him in the mouth . |
3 | But a witness saw him outside the premises . |
4 | Haines fell over and a Corporal kicked him in the stomach , shouting at him to stand up . |
5 | A constable had him by the arm and was turning him about — was that all ? no arguments ? |
6 | On the way out , a policeman told him about the tragedy that was unfolding at the far end of the ground . |
7 | A policeman found him in the river near Waterloo station . |
8 | A chill caught him in the stomach . |
9 | Such a despair seized him at the sound of his own acceptance that he made a half-hearted attempt even then to deliver himself . |
10 | He was seen twice near the village of Langley Park on Saturday night , and yesterday a woman noticed him on the busy A167 dual carriageway on the outskirts of Durham City about 10 miles from Lanchester . |
11 | A dog ate him at the bus stop ! |
12 | Then the unit going to Belfast , and the day a sniper killed him in the Crumlin Road . |
13 | The scraping of a bolt recalled him to the issue in hand . |
14 | Gallagher struggled ; a man cuffed him across the mouth as one would a bucking horse . |
15 | He was threading his way along the side of a steep and thickly wooded declivity when a voice hailed him from the other side . |
16 | In his last years , Gresham 's fame as a magician drew him into the sordid court intrigues surrounding the divorce of Robert Devereux , third Earl of Essex [ q.v . ] . |
17 | A hand took him by the shoulder and shook him awake , and he started up with a cry , for a moment not knowing where he was or what was happening to him . |
18 | A hand seized him by the hair and yanked his head back . |
19 | A squall beat him into the bank . |
20 | Twice a squall bowled him into the water as he followed the shore round . |
21 | A SECURITY guard cheated death when a thug slashed him across the neck with a Stanley knife . |
22 | Robert Harris established his name many years ago as a designer of sound blue water cruising yachts , so it was no surprise when a couple tackled him in the late 1960s to design for them a small yacht that would take them from Canada to New Zealand in both comfort and safety . |
23 | Firemen and a passer-by dragged him to the bank after cutting his trapped legs free from the canoe . |
24 | The Yak banked again , came in fast , cannon shell punching into the Stork and Farber cried out as a bullet caught him in the shoulder . |
25 | He half stood up as Myeloski came towards him , when an aircraft called him over the radio . |
26 | On his journey , fearful and probably suffering from reactionary depression , he slept a night under a broom bush , where he dreamed that an angel touched him on the shoulder and bade him rise and eat . |
27 | President Dawda Jawara pardoned 35 prisoners in an amnesty allowed him by the Gambian Constitution , to mark the 26th anniversary of independence on Feb. 18 . |