Example sentences of "he and [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men surged round him and jostled themselves to a standstill . |
| 2 | Of course , at last a train got him and killed him in a horrible way . |
| 3 | ‘ The Scots do n't look very … amusable , ’ drawled Georgie , picking a bit of 1,000-year-old stone off the wall behind him and aiming it at a tent-peg . |
| 4 | The vicar says that a young Larusa , Masai after all , has stabbed him and beaten him with a stick and the whole town is talking about it . |
| 5 | It had been arranged that a trustworthy man would come then to collect him and take him to a safe house . |
| 6 | But in the same split second something like an iron band clamped round his waist , squeezing the breath from him and bringing him to a dead stop . |
| 7 | Never before had she argued so passionately with a man , hating him and wanting him with an intensity that frightened her . |
| 8 | But , as he rode , a terrible curiosity began to rise up in him and prick him like a gimlet . |
| 9 | Well , of course , it did not take very long for people to realize that if someone wanted to sell his company and retire to the country with the proceeds , these provisions could be used to postpone payment of capital gains tax almost indefinitely so long as he was prepared to continue to hold the shares issued to him and to treat them as an investment . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The plaintiff then instituted proceedings against the defendants claiming damages for their breach of duty in failing to disclose material information to him and placing themselves in a position where their duties and interests conflicted . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She looked at him and loved him with a mixture of passion and almost maternal tenderness . |
| 14 | Windeler took the sheet from him and slipped it into a drawer in the desk . |
| 15 | We found him in a night club with his wife , and Flynn went straight up to him and flattened him with a single punch . |
| 16 | Valerie looked cautiously round , then , lowering her voice , said : ‘ Weeks ago our little kitten ran into the wood , and she caught him and turned him into a witch 's cat . ’ |
| 17 | As a result her handsome husband shrank into a shrivelled old man until he was so deformed the gods took pity on him and turned him into a cicada — one of the first creatures to excitedly greet the dawn on a warm summer 's day . |
| 18 | One child referred to in court as child A , finally admitted taking James Bulger to a railway embankment near Walton but he said it was the other boy child B who threw bricks at him and hit him with a stick and a metal bar . |
| 19 | Producer Ken Hyman went in search for him and found him in a bar in Belgravia ‘ as drunk as a skunk ’ . |
| 20 | Mildred hopped next to him and patted him with a half visible arm . |
| 21 | He hat eventually decided to ask Security 's registry and its computers for a trace muddling the trail by getting a colleague to send the request for him and burying it in a list of acronyms as if they had been collected over a period of time . |
| 22 | She liked him and trusted him as a friend who was valuable to her husband . |
| 23 | He and took me on a short sight-seeing trip to the Qutab Minar . |