Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [vb past] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was not at the inn , not in the meadows , and when he finally found a sufficiently oblique way to ask where she might be , his misreading of the directions sent him along the wrong path past the wrong waterfall and up the surprisingly taxing slope of the wrong fell . |
| 2 | His reports on the collections brought him to the notice of the British scientific establishment and led to his appointment as naturalist in HMS Bulldog during a voyage under the command of Sir Leopold M ‘ Clintoch in 1860 to investigate a possible northern route for the proposed north Atlantic telegraph cable . |
| 3 | The gods turned him into the flower that bears his name . |
| 4 | The passengers pulled him onto the rock . |
| 5 | Joseph had been the guardian of the women and children throughout the long march , and though he conferred constantly with the other headmen , the whites regarded him as the figurehead of the Nez Perce resistance . |
| 6 | The players told him after the game that the lights did not trouble them as much as sunlight . |
| 7 | One of the youths slashed him across the nose and he needed eight stitches in the wound . |
| 8 | but , I did hear something , I do n't know whether it 's true , that the doctors took him off the |
| 9 | The police told him of the allegations from three children , but were , in his words , ‘ fairly vague ’ about the questioning . |
| 10 | ‘ The police carried him through the crowd while all the people jumped at him , screaming and trying to attack him . ’ |
| 11 | The others followed him into the darkness . |
| 12 | El-ahrairah allowed himself to be persuaded and the soldiers took him to the king . |
| 13 | On election , however , his refusal as a Congregationalist to take the sacraments debarred him from the House of Commons and caused his removal from the aldermanic bench under the Corporation Act . |
| 14 | The malai shoved him in the chest with his free hand but he pointed the gun at the ground behind him . |
| 15 | The policemen knocked him to the ground and kicked the life out of him . |