Example sentences of "he [verb] him [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Angry Brian Reatus , 44 , allegedly foamed at the mouth as he pinned him to the wall . |
| 2 | Mr Woodcock , 47 , of Holgate , York , grabbed the weapon with one hand and it went off , blasting a wall with pellets , but he hung on , dragging the raider into the car park outside the restaurant , where he pinned him to the ground until armed police arrived . |
| 3 | When he met him in the office , or on the stairs , his habitually offensive glance seemed to have a new dimension of thoughtfulness . |
| 4 | Pulling Mickey away gently , he led him through the front of the shop and out into the street . |
| 5 | Unfortunately he phoned him in the middle of the night . |
| 6 | He found him in the station buffet slouched against the counter eating toasted tea-cakes . |
| 7 | The scene of crime officer kept looking at him , as if he found him in the way but did not know how to say so . |
| 8 | He caught him by the shirt . |
| 9 | ‘ He created him as the person who could do all the things that grown ups are not allowed to do . |
| 10 | Hudson , who had played the most fluently for his 30 from 54 balls , was caught behind trying to cut Harper , who was also rewarded with the wicket of Rushmere when he beat him in the flight . |
| 11 | Hilbert leant towards Lewis when he told him about the will and gave him a pat on the knee . |
| 12 | He told him of the goal that has held him through three years in the University of the North — a campus from which student riots have spread through the country . |
| 13 | Or he grabs him by the hair , drags back the head , makes the first deep cut . |
| 14 | ‘ He blames him for the press not being here , ’ Celia said . |
| 15 | He had noticed the same man several times during the day , culminating about 5.40pm when he noticed him on the corner of Cross Street and Friar Street . |
| 16 | He showed him into the living room where Sammy greeted him , wagging his tail . |
| 17 | Then Kragan kicked him in the stomach and , as Adam doubled forward , he kneed him in the cheek , sending him sprawling backwards , banging his head against the wall . |
| 18 | In a violent struggle , the policeman found it necessary to unscrew the man 's wooden leg as he wrestled him to the ground , striking him across the head with his truncheon . |
| 19 | In July 1908 he recruited him to the Board of Trade with the responsibility of making the proposals a reality . |
| 20 | So he walked him round the beat until the sergeant found him . |
| 21 | But Blain-Thomson will be able to tell you more then he gets him on the table . |
| 22 | Sometimes he fancied him in the room , and said , ‘ I must just speak to John Bunyan ; he 's over there … |
| 23 | Then walking to where Grierson was cowering against the wall , he grabbed him around the throat . |
| 24 | Finally he grabbed him by the collar , and with a spasmodic effort tipped him off the wharf into the canal . |
| 25 | He commends him for the wit and wisdom of things he has n't said . |
| 26 | ‘ Several people who were present say he was n't , and a cabby says he delivered him to the Post on Friday afternoon . |
| 27 | Though he reassured him about the boy 's future , his calling Isaac his ‘ only son ’ when he commands him to go to the land of Moriah might well suggest those assurances were empty and meant nothing . |
| 28 | The shooting gallery was open to members of the public , and was the scene of a spectacular feat of arms by Horace Hunter , who hit the target ‘ in the second buttonhole of the waistcoat , five times out of every six , and when he did n't hit there , he hit him in the head ’ . |
| 29 | Last night at our gig in Cardiff there was a bouncer at the front and he caught a youngster and he hit him in the throat , and he could have killed him . |
| 30 | He did not qualify him for income support , he supported him on to the back of his ass , he took him to the inn . |