Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [vb past] him [prep] [art] " 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 journalist interviewed him for a book about his family , and when The Nielsons appeared , it made no mention at all of his professional life . |
| 6 | A PEER with a distinguished war record who became a Conservative minister , Warden of Winchester College and businessman , yesterday described to a High Court jury his horror when he realised a pamphlet described him as a war criminal . |
| 7 | A constable had him by the arm and was turning him about — was that all ? no arguments ? |
| 8 | A friend told him about an ex-demonstration model available at a heavily discounted price . |
| 9 | A friend described him as a charming rogue ‘ always on the make ’ . |
| 10 | A policeman took him to a chair near Anna . |
| 11 | On the way out , a policeman told him about the tragedy that was unfolding at the far end of the ground . |
| 12 | A policeman found him in the river near Waterloo station . |
| 13 | A chill caught him in the stomach . |
| 14 | Such a despair seized him at the sound of his own acceptance that he made a half-hearted attempt even then to deliver himself . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A dog ate him at the bus stop ! |
| 17 | Then the unit going to Belfast , and the day a sniper killed him in the Crumlin Road . |
| 18 | The scraping of a bolt recalled him to the issue in hand . |
| 19 | Gallagher struggled ; a man cuffed him across the mouth as one would a bucking horse . |
| 20 | A voice hailed him from a grille above the door . |
| 21 | He was threading his way along the side of a steep and thickly wooded declivity when a voice hailed him from the other side . |
| 22 | 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 . ] . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A hand seized him by the hair and yanked his head back . |
| 25 | A squall beat him into the bank . |
| 26 | Twice a squall bowled him into the water as he followed the shore round . |
| 27 | A SECURITY guard cheated death when a thug slashed him across the neck with a Stanley knife . |
| 28 | If a member crossed him on a policy issue , as Callaghan did on trade-union reform in the spring of 1969 , he would be expelled , even if , like Callaghan as Home Secretary , he was a pillar of the administration . |
| 29 | His bedclothes were changed and a nurse helped him into a theatre gown . |
| 30 | 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 . |