Example sentences of "[noun sg] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 We 'll blackball him for a start
2 Lewis reached his third Test fifty before edging a flowery drive , and Salisbury recovered from an excruciating blow on the box from Waqar to bang him through the covers and generally give the impression that he might soon be worth a sport higher than No. 9 in the order .
3 He judged Asquith 's sense of probity correctly-meeting him in the Travellers ' Club later , the Liberal leader said ‘ You have done quite right . ’
4 Kennedy immediately called together a special Executive Committee ( the " Ex Comm " ) to advice him on the handling of the crisis .
5 If it is windy Tracey will not risk taking him on the roads , and instead exercises him in the school , but she never jumps him .
6 No one was within earshot , they were miles from anywhere , it seemed , and even if she jumped in the river and swam for it the chance that she would outmanoeuvre him in the water was slim .
7 When a barrister comes to address your University or College law society , you can beard him on the subject .
8 He received from one of those organisations , the Board of Guardians , food , clothing , a little money to tide him over the worst first weeks , and the address of a family who would provide a room and warmth .
9 It was Willans who advised Rolt 's parents to apprentice him as a mechanical engineer , and it was with great enthusiasm that in 1926 the boy left Cheltenham College , which had been a miserable experience for him , to serve as a pupil at Bomfords , an agricultural engineering firm at Pitchill near Evesham .
10 Meanwhile , Texan billionaire Ross Perot , who is predicting a ‘ silent majority ’ will catapult him to the White House , went to rally the faithful in his Dallas home town .
11 Then , waving aloft a sheaf of papers , he uttered the famous lie that was to catapult him into the limelight for four years : ‘ I have here in my hand a list of 205 names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department . ’
12 BERNHARD Langer stands between Ulster 's David Feherty and the victory which could spectacularly catapult him into the Ryder Cup .
13 BERNHARD Langer stands between Ulster 's David Feherty and the victory which could spectacularly catapult him into the Ryder Cup .
14 WORLD champion boxer Chris Eubank fought off Big Breakfast show presenter Paula Yates , above , when she tried to bed him for an interview on screen yesterday .
15 By opening himself , he had forged another bond , which drew Vologsky out of his safe , ordered shell and-exposed him to the ravages of unrestrained speculation .
16 John McVurich , alledged diviner , being summond and not compared recommended him to the session of Kilarrow to processe him for the same .
17 It might be diplomatic to humour him for the moment …
18 Why was it right to train a fellow and you knew , or you felt that , you could not go to the flight commander or the wing commander and say a think this fellow should go down the pits , " or a think we should remuster him to the Army or the Navy " .
19 In his concluding essay , Urwick wrote : The club can catch him , but can not discipline him , the Boys ' Brigade can discipline him to a small extent , but can not catch or keep him when he most needs it ; the voluntary evening school can do neither .
20 Luigi pretended to cuff him across the ear .
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