Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The policeman ‘ assaulted Harold Benn , aged 27 , an amateur boxer , after stopping him in Tooting , south London . |
| 32 | On Nov. 21 the 15-member Security Council had recommended the approval of Boutros Ghali after electing him by 11 votes with four abstentions . |
| 33 | Earlier , driver Geoffrey Wellens had stopped to ask Mr Thompson if he was alright after spotting him on the road . |
| 34 | If , on the other hand , someone had dragged his unconscious body after slugging him with Dora 's missing golf-club , there might be other shreds of cloth lying about . |
| 35 | VERA Daniels , 66 , was reunited yesterday with long-lost brother John Stokes , 63 — last seen in 1942 — after tracing him to a village TEN MILES from her home in Newcastle-under-Lyme , Staffs . |
| 36 | After spying him through the kitchen window with Mrs Files , so much himself , so much not Francis , I thought I did n't want to see him at all . |
| 37 | A WHEELCHAIR-bound man beat his love rival to death after luring him into a field , a court heard yesterday . |
| 38 | A MAN was jailed for six years at the High Court in Glasgow yesterday for his part in attempting to murder a man after luring him into a night of torture . |
| 39 | manager of a City assurance office and the narrator of ‘ Hunted Down ’ , who helps Meltham to entrap Julius Slinkton after discovering him to be a murderer . |
| 40 | Paul Keywood , 13 , and his 11-year-old brother Nathan saved the little boy 's life after discovering him in freezing conditions wrapped in only a towel . |
| 41 | After leaving him on the bedroom floor , he returned to throw a jug of water in his father 's face . |
| 42 | Five months ago I found out that my husband was having an affair and , after confronting him about it , he decided to move out . |
| 43 | A GAMES player shot his lodger after beating him at chess . |
| 44 | CUSTOMERS who spent four hours haggling with a double glazing salesman may sue after beating him at his own game . |
| 45 | After missing him during his stay in Geneva ( he 'd been presiding over Berlioz 's Benvenuto Cellini at the Grand Théâtre there ) , I finally succeeded in making contact with him in Rome , where he was conducting the orchestra of the Academia di Santa Cecilia in music by Schubert , Nino Rota and , not unexpectedly , Berlioz — the Symphonie fantastique . |
| 46 | Mr Sergei Shakhrai , a key Yeltsin adviser , said he was instigating legal proceedings against Mr Khasbulatov for insulting him in an interview . |
| 47 | Rodrigo marched into Valencia in triumph , only to learn that his old adversary Berenguer of Barcelona — who had never forgiven the Cid for capturing him in an earlier campaign — had formed an alliance with the Moorish lord of Lerida and El Cid 's own sometime ally Mostain of Saragossa . |
| 48 | There is an overwhelming case for giving the D.O. , the most important unit in the whole machine , more responsibility , and for saving him from dancing attendance on Residents who notoriously dodge responsibility . |
| 49 | DAVE BASSETT last night thanked old pal Bobby Gould for saving him from a possible FA rap . |
| 50 | IPSWICH TOWN general-manager John Lyall will thank Terry Venables tomorrow for saving him from the wilderness . |
| 51 | He cried for put him on the bed , could n't do no college work so I just went to bed and left him . |
| 52 | He slipped away to the great palace of King Darzin and begged to be rewarded for warning him against his enemies . |
| 53 | Yeah , of course you ca n't sort of cuddle him like that cos he 's too heavy , I rock him you know for a , a couple of minutes , not that long , he 's taken his braces off as well still do , do n't ya ? |
| 54 | But last night , his angry wife accused the Government of using him as a scapegoat . |
| 55 | He wants to talk about The Miser , so you persist with that line of questioning in the hope of drawing him on other aspects of his career . |
| 56 | It is just that I am trying to find ways of helping him through the first bad spell of his career . |
| 57 | He had the faculty of meeting everyone on the level , and Father had a story of seeing him at a political meeting , which he was probably chairing , walking arm in arm with the Grand Old Man himself , both talking . |
| 58 | ‘ It was n't so much the shock of seeing him in a metal cage , it was the atmosphere of the place . |
| 59 | The climax of his tale is to profess to excuse Cassio — ‘ But men are men ; the best sometimes forget ’ ( 237 ) — an extremely effective way of indicting him in the eyes of those present . |
| 60 | She thought of ringing him on the off chance of catching him at the flat , but shelved the possibility as unlikely . |