Example sentences of "he and [verb] he [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , at last a train got him and killed him in a horrible way . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It had been arranged that a trustworthy man would come then to collect him and take him to a safe house . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But , as he rode , a terrible curiosity began to rise up in him and prick him like a gimlet . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She looked at him and loved him with a mixture of passion and almost maternal tenderness . |
| 9 | We found him in a night club with his wife , and Flynn went straight up to him and flattened him with a single punch . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Producer Ken Hyman went in search for him and found him in a bar in Belgravia ‘ as drunk as a skunk ’ . |
| 14 | Mildred hopped next to him and patted him with a half visible arm . |
| 15 | She liked him and trusted him as a friend who was valuable to her husband . |