Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the council sought to evict him for non-payment of the extra rent he pleaded in defence that the resolution was invalid . |
| 2 | First , top scorer Dalien Atkinson missed the starting line-up after revolutionary oxygen chamber treatment failed to heal him in time to face his old club . |
| 3 | I 'ad to hit him with an ornament , and when his fam'ly got back from church 'is wife asked him what 'ad happened to his face . |
| 4 | Finally she agreed to meet him for lunch the following week , and they agreed a time and a place . |
| 5 | And I hardly got to know him at all . |
| 6 | WIELDING a meat chopper , a man slashed and injured two government workers and a policeman yesterday as they tried to evict him from his home in Kowloon Walled City , which the Hong Kong government says is a slum and should be demolished . |
| 7 | In view of the complaints of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the virulence of Leese 's propaganda , the government tried to silence him through recourse to the law . |
| 8 | Since someone tried to kill him with a parcel bomb back in Lusaka , he 's moved several times and today still goes in fear of his life . |
| 9 | They tried to eject him from the podium . |
| 10 | ‘ Have you … tried to see him in hospital ? ’ |
| 11 | But then I tried to seduce him with poetry . |
| 12 | I have n't spoken to Mr Boldwood since the autumn , when I promised to see him at Christmas , so I 'll have to go . |
| 13 | ‘ You are naughty , wicked and bad , ’ she cried as she pretended to hit him over the head . |
| 14 | As he passed Garry he pretended to punch him in the arm . |
| 15 | Italian club Torino tried to tempt him to the land of loads of lira , but Nigel 's mother put the block on that move . |
| 16 | Marc got up , face like a thunder-cloud , the look he gave Peter designed to shrivel him on the spot . |
| 17 | ERIC Butler , a charity worker , fought back with his swordstick when a mugger tried to strangle him on the London Underground in 1987 . |
| 18 | Mr Craxi , who had been unchallenged party leader for 16 years , four of them as prime minister , resigned on Thursday as judges moved to prosecute him in connection with a corruption scandal . |
| 19 | I dived towards the scarlet streaks and touched him at once , but there was no movement in him , and when I tried to pull him to the surface , I could n't . |
| 20 | And so that Ven should know how truly sorry she was , she held on to him with both arms and tried to pull him to her . |
| 21 | She walked two paces backwards to the bed , only in her shirt , and tried to pull him on her as she fell . |
| 22 | I bent down and turned him until I had my hands under his arms , his back towards me , and I floated him along in the water to the steps and there strained to pull him up them and out onto the grass . |
| 23 | The 30-year-old man , who has not been named , died despite the efforts of coastguards and ambulancemen , who tried to revive him after a failed rescue attempt by surfers . |
| 24 | Always the perfect aide , Serrigny tried to distract him with Rabelaisian reminiscences from army life of twenty years ago . |
| 25 | Lambert tried to douse him with wine . |
| 26 | An ambulance crew tried to resuscitate him before taking him to Arrowe Park Hospital where he died soon afterwards . |
| 27 | Our men tried to shoot him in the water , but it was dark , there was no moon — and we lost him . |
| 28 | Gloucester Crown Court heard that 24 year old Michael Jones headbutted and punched PC Kevin Frost as he tried to arrest him on suspicion of damaging a burger bar in Cheltenham . |
| 29 | His General Practitioner was notified by telephone of his impending discharge and promised to visit him within a couple of days . |
| 30 | When American writer Lester Bangs toured England with The Clash , Bernie Rhodes tried to set him on fire . |