Example sentences of "[vb past] him [adv] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the police found him later his head was almost severed from his neck , lolled through the fractured opening in a macabre way , the dead cigarette still tucked in the corner of the dead man 's mouth . |
| 2 | The wind hit him the moment he left the vehicle , a ferocious gust off the nearby sea which nearly lifted him off his feet . |
| 3 | Plummer bellowed , watching gloomily as a body punch brought down his fighter 's guard and a thunderous uppercut lifted him off his feet and sent him crashing to the canvas . |
| 4 | Howard addressed him over his shoulder , still ascending the steps . |
| 5 | Stories that she lightheartedly tipped him off his surfboard do not ring true of Diana who was totally in awe of him . |
| 6 | Bones lifted his head and gave Hoomey an affectionate nudge , which nearly knocked him off his feet . |
| 7 | In a 1951 case , a Mr Gregory was injured when a lorry driven by a Mr Hill knocked him off his motorbike . |
| 8 | Roger was a keen walker , cyclist and backpacker before a sleepy driver knocked him off his bike and confined him to a wheelchair for the rest of his life . |
| 9 | That slap knocked him off his chair . |
| 10 | He was pursued by the customer who had been threatened , who caught up with him and knocked him off his motorcycle ; the offender then threatened him with the gun . |
| 11 | The blast took the oriental in the right shoulder , knocked him off his feet and hurled him clear across the room , where he crashed to a stop with his head and shoulders propped against the far wall . |
| 12 | Mr Wheelhouse , of Roseberry Crescent , Norton , Stockton , asked him where his money was then hit him on the head with the hammer , knocking him unconscious . |
| 13 | I was talking , yesterday as it happened , to the chairman of another very large children 's charity and I asked him how his , the spend , the annual spend of that charity was distributed between the work of the charity , the purpose of the charity and the support functions and he said about eighty twenty . |
| 14 | She brought him back his drink , and then noticed with some relief that the crowd seemed to be thinning , and there was only an hour of work left . |
| 15 | Later , Roland noticed , as he himself had his successes , Val said less and less , and when she argued , offered him increasingly his own ideas , sometimes the reverse side of the knitting , but essentially his . |
| 16 | It put him off his stroke and the chopper slipped , cutting his finger . |
| 17 | Morris 's presence also put him off his stroke on the phone . |
| 18 | But he wo n't let that put him off his work . |
| 19 | As the youth in the crash-helmet doubled over , Quinn hoisted him off his machine , swung his own right leg over it , engaged gear and gunned the engine . |
| 20 | They placed a lavatory chain around his neck and hoisted him off his feet . |
| 21 | Her tact always and ever gave him back his freedom . |
| 22 | Then , in a further foray , Bothwell encountered Little Jock Elliot of the Park , one of the most savage of that reiving family , and shot him off his horse . |
| 23 | I know , some teacher , some boy kicked him up his arse . |
| 24 | She swept him off his feet as the forward momentum of her lunge carried her upright , shedding Perks left and right with a shake of her shoulders . |