Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [verb] him [prep] a " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I clearly got up his nose when I asked him about a report which disputed his status as a big box-office draw , ’ says Barry . |
2 | When I detained him by a greeting , he looked up a little puzzled , saying that he thought that we lived in Cornwall Gardens . |
3 | He enjoys it all with equal enthusiasm , and when I visited him in a small hut on Denham airfield where he was instructing ab initio pilots in Cessna 172s I detected the same dedication , pride and affection he has for all his aviation exploits . |
4 | When she attacked him with a 12-inch butcher 's knife , he punched her , and that brought that troubled relationship to a troubled end . |
5 | But he says he was defending himself when she threatened him with a knife . |
6 | A masked man who broke into a woman 's house at Newbiggin , Northumberland , fled empty handed when she threatened him with a walking stick . |
7 | When she kisses him as a woman , he dies : she casts herself into the Fire , taking his body with her : and Holly seems to see her alive and radiant , a woman whose sins have been compounded . |
8 | Charlie , is on his last legs , has been for years and , might as well have him put down , as that Nick keep saying , I think I 'll have to have him put down he , when he takes him for a walk he collapses . |