Example sentences of "in the [noun] [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to him Beatrice was so jealous that she locked Modi up in the cottage to keep him from going off with other women . |
| 2 | On his return Geoffrey should have been waiting in the wings to assist him into his pirate coat — the hook attached to the sleeve rendered it cumbersome . |
| 3 | The lamp outside in the yard bathed him in grey light , leaving his eyes in deep shadow so that his face resembled that of a corpse . |
| 4 | Quickly I hurled two magical fireballs , both hit the creature of the night square in the chest reducing him to a pile of smouldering bones . |
| 5 | Quickly I hurled two magical fireballs , both hit the creature of the night square in the chest reducing him to a pile of smouldering bones . |
| 6 | At Tannadice yesterday , Booth fell just one short of that total , revelling in the assistance offered him by Ferguson 's undoubted physical threat amid a nervous-looking Maltese defence . |
| 7 | People in the village knew him by his dourness , by the distance he put between himself and them . |
| 8 | Often he would send for Cranmer in the night to reassure him in his religious doubts and difficulties . |
| 9 | Kick him in the bollocks kick him in the head . |
| 10 | A pensioner 's training in the SAS saved him from serious injury when two men attacked him with a knife . |
| 11 | A bend in the path brought him to a stile at the entrance to Lulling Woods . |
| 12 | The right hon. Gentleman has done a great deal during his period in the House for disabled people and everyone in the House admires him for what he has done , but he must know that there have been dramatic improvements in recent years in the scope , range and value of benefits and in the number of disabled people who receive them . |
| 13 | A five minute rough walk in the moonlight took him to the top of the shingle ridge . |
| 14 | Political leaders in the Congress accused him of adopting an autocratic style , and critics also alleged that the government was both inefficient and corrupt . |
| 15 | My father was taken from his clerking job at Flatford Mill to go to London and look after his brother , a local merchant with interests in the City providing him with a post . |
| 16 | ‘ Some folk in the city see him in a different light . |
| 17 | In 1935 Louis Aragon proudly proclaimed to the world that his encounter with communism and the revolutionary society of the Soviet Union had transformed him into an entirely new man , had rejuvenated him , re-educated him , and in the process cured him of the social disease of his bourgeois class origins . |
| 18 | She was one of the few people who rose early in the morning to greet him on his release from prison in 1897 . |
| 19 | The hospital would ring him in the morning to warn him of what they had discovered of Mrs Popple 's death upon doing the post-mortem . |
| 20 | However , he was mindful of his limitations and , after some time , he was able to arrange for a ‘ godly , diligent physician ’ to come and set up a practice in the town to relieve him of this burden . |
| 21 | The man in the dock watched him in silence as he sat down heavily in his chair . |
| 22 | As a result , Mr Vafa , who was living in France at the time , says that allegations of violence made against him by his former wife and her family went unchallenged and resulted in the interdict preventing him from molesting and attacking his wife or members of her family . |