Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alison met him in the same bar . |
| 2 | Father Devlin clapped him on the shoulder with a large heavy hand . |
| 3 | Devlin clapped him on the shoulder . |
| 4 | A branch whipped him in the face . |
| 5 | But after three disappointing Five Nations games , Ciaran Fitzgerald drafted him into the side — as well as making him captain — for the game in Paris . |
| 6 | His talents , his wealth , and the changing times raised him to the court of assistants of the Levant Company from 1644 to 1648 , and in 1645 Parliament appointed him to the Goldsmiths ' Hall committee , through which Royalists redeemed their sequestrated estates by paying compositions . |
| 7 | Bridhe and Seamus Ban consulted him about the amount of drink that would be needed , and were told to double it . |
| 8 | Biff lowered him to the ground , and untied the rope . |
| 9 | Two months later Minton visited him in the country , pale from a pub crawl in Ipswich , and seemed to Lehmann ‘ more settled with Rickie [ sic[ off the booze ’ . |
| 10 | The gang assaulted him during the drive to Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire , then threw him out of the car . |
| 11 | When Pauline Kael reviewed him as the bloated Jake La Motta in Raging Bull , she said that what De Niro was doing was certainly something , but she 'd hesitate to call it acting . |
| 12 | Trent caught him by the forearm . |
| 13 | Patrick Devlin regarded him as the most effective speaker of his time : |
| 14 | Britain 's golden boy who lost his shine when newcomer David Grindley beat him for the final place in today 's 400 metres final is ready to take a year off from the track if it means he can beat the trouble . |
| 15 | When Thomas tried to grab the child away , the lash caught him in the eye . |
| 16 | David Beaton clapped him on the shoulder . |
| 17 | Maisie pecked him on the cheek . |
| 18 | Inevitably , his steps led him in the end to the Corso , where the evening promenade was in progress . |
| 19 | Mountbatten 's task was not simplified when General MacArthur saddled him with the additional responsibility of taking over Indonesia and Indo-China , previously within the American sphere . |
| 20 | An ad in the Sevenoaks Chronicle led him to the white 1988 Sierra Sapphire 1.8 LX , advertised at £3750 . |
| 21 | Angie led him through the living room . |
| 22 | Hari led him to the bench and watched as Lewis tied on his apron . |
| 23 | David clapped him on the shoulder and simply said : |
| 24 | Andrew Chubb , prosecuting , claimed Blissett elbowed Uzzell after the defender beat him to the ball and headed it away . |
| 25 | Grimma prodded him in the stomach . |
| 26 | The handlebar caught him in the groin . |
| 27 | The President drove him to the station . ’ |
| 28 | Davide had turned up a coin , one afternoon , when he was mooning around ; it was a common enough type , the professor told him in the museum at Riba , where he took it for an opinion . |
| 29 | One moment of astonishing creativity in the dying seconds on Saturday transported him to the centre of Arsenal 's universe . |
| 30 | He told various stories when journalists interviewed him about the book and pryed into his background . |