Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She watched as Luke fought his own anger and then half threw him to the ground . |
| 2 | He had held a greater ambition for some years , however , and this dominated him until the summer of 1952 — he wished to be President of the United States . |
| 3 | When Midland Amalgamated headhunted him for the MD 's job at Pringle 's they offered him a Rover 3500 Vanden Plas , but Vic stuck out for the Jaguar , a car normally reserved for divisional chairmen , and to his great satisfaction he had got one , even though it was n't quite new . |
| 4 | Two trucks overtaking one another brushed him to the side . |
| 5 | She caught hold of him by the hand and half ran , half pulled him across the room to the door . |
| 6 | It gave him four and a half years of power without full responsibility — although he no doubt did not consider that this placed him in the harlot class . |
| 7 | He grabbed hold of Steve by the scruff of the neck , half lifted , half dragged him to the front door . |
| 8 | Hari half lifted half pushed him through the window and then she waited breathlessly for any sounds that would indicate that Will had been discovered , but when there was nothing , she moved to the door and to her relief , she saw it swing open . |
| 9 | This pushed him into the path of an oncoming vehicle driven by the second defendant . |
| 10 | For another , it was the opportunity to take proper revenge for the discomfort that Private Eye had caused him over the years , a revenge more satisfying than that afforded him by the Music Box April Fool 's joke . |
| 11 | The second hit him in the back then travelled upwards for about eight inches before bursting out of his chest . |
| 12 | The second hit him in the right shoulder , the impact lifting him off his feet and sending him toppling towards the head of the stairs . |
| 13 | His provision of seventy hides of land for Benedict 's new foundation in Wearmouth in 674 and a further forty hides for his parallel foundation in Jarrow in 681 associated him with the two houses , which were to become pre-eminent in Northumbrian monastic culture and scholarship . |
| 14 | Murchison recognized the boy 's ability , arranged for his entry to the Royal School of Mines , where he studied under Thomas Huxley and ( Sir ) Andrew Ramsay [ qq.v. ] , and in 1862 recruited him to the Geological Survey of Scotland . |
| 15 | The latter provided him with the income needed to purchase a house beside the bowling green at Whitehall , and York also secured his election as MP for New Romney in 1661 . |
| 16 | The obituaries published in Britain , on the Continent and in America all acknowledged him as the originator of military precision dancing and reported how he had dominated a whole era of show business . |
| 17 | It all swung him towards the burning reality of Kee . |
| 18 | Something enormous hit him on the nose . |
| 19 | That formed him in the womb ; |
| 20 | I first met him during the early 1950s and I became editor of what I believe was the second journal in the now enormous Pergamon Press stable . |
| 21 | They first met him on the platform at Liverpool Street station during one of their regular Friday shuttles between Norfolk and London . |
| 22 | The unsatisfactoriness of the competing claims of various philosophers first led him to the belief that scientific knowledge of nature was unattainable by the human mind . |
| 23 | His sense of the ridiculous helped him through the myriad indignities which he and Lindsay underwent . |
| 24 | The first hit him on the bridge of the nose , almost severing the appendage and taking out an eye as it exited . |
| 25 | I had been horrified at his scarecrow appearance when I first saw him at the clinic , and when I met him by chance in Tala-Tala I felt so sorry for him that I asked him if he would like to come for dinner . |
| 26 | He was wearing the crumpled suit he had been wearing on the day Robert first saw him in the pub . |
| 27 | ‘ When I first saw him in the orphanage , he had a swollen head and a tiny little starved body with a pot belly . |
| 28 | John 's route first took him along the south coast of England during a heatwave then around the south west peninsula and Wales to Holyhead where he crossed to Dublin in November . |
| 29 | And no one saw him in the street ; that little turning is almost entirely occupied by people who are out at work all day . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ But no one saw him near the flat that afternoon . |