Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] he with [art] " in BNC.

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1 Again , if a dog-owner deliberately sets his dog on a peaceable citizen he is guilty of assault and battery in the ordinary way just as if he had flung a stone or hit him with a cudgel .
2 There was a sensuousness about it that filled him with a desire to run shouting across it , to roll in it , to bury his face in it and sniff life out of its roots , to draw up his childhood from the green stems , to lie supine and shade his eyes from the sun and dream himself back into nature .
3 She wanted to say no , to go on treating him and everything that surrounded him with the same nonchalant air she 'd managed thus far .
4 CHELSEA defender Paul Elliott is to sue Dean Saunders and Liverpool over the tackle that left him with a severe knee injury .
5 Shiona twisted round and pierced him with a look .
6 Jitters took careful aim , and got him with a headshot .
7 These replies were highly satisfactory to the King , who summoned Baldwin to the Palace at 3.15 p.m. and charged him with the task of forming a Government .
8 He pounded Benichou to the body and caught him with a right cross to the chin at the end of the first .
9 After a reviving sip of coffee , she took a deep breath , flipped off her dark glasses , and fixed him with a level gaze .
10 She sat down opposite him at the kitchen table and fixed him with the kind of look that usually preceded a full eighteen-round contest .
11 Somebody singled him out and smacked him with a car .
12 The man held up a hand to silence Barak then turned to the guard beside him and dismissed him with a curt nod of the head .
13 However , he fully redeemed himself next time out at Newbury when he gave 2st to Springholm and beat him with a bit in hand .
14 Even so the men who stole a hundred pounds from him at his home in Witney still felt the need to punch and kick him and beat him with a wooden club .
15 When he found the man he threw the acid into his face and beat him with the hammer , fracturing his skull and his thumb .
16 Apart from helping with his wardrobe , LASMO also covered the costs of his tuition , accommodation and books , and provided him with a living allowance .
17 A second group of provincial delegates arrived in St Petersburg just after his appointment and provided him with a sympathetic audience for his opinions .
18 Fonda claimed that this first experience began the halt of a downhill slide into alcoholism , acquisitive , habitual spending on fast cars , Cessna airplanes , fine suits and provided him with the insight to revoke his staunch conservative opinions and adopt a liberalistic , casual , ‘ don't-give-a-fuck approach to life ’ .
19 Earlier he had visited the American Consulate , where an attractive and sympathetic fellow countrywoman from North Carolina had advised him on all the sad yet necessary procedures consequent upon the death of an American national in Britain , and acquainted him with the costs of the transatlantic conveyancing of corpses .
20 My head was full of good things to say — but I just snorted , and erased him with the flat of my hand , and walked on .
21 In the game larder , pheasants and duck and partridge hung by their necks in winter time , and bunches of snipe waited , pin-eyes closed , to be plucked — once Nicandra picked up a little bird , too mangled to hang in the bunch and faced him with a fellow .
22 ( b ) That later on the same night , after Zaidie had reached home , the defendant had driven there with another man and confronted him with a gun and had said that he had come to move out Paulette. ( c ) That after that incident , but still in June 1986 , when Zaidie was driving into a friend 's house , the defendant drove up and , saying that he had heard that Zaidie had hit Paulette , again threatened to kill him if he touched her .
23 He saw Wycliffe and acknowledged him with a timid gesture .
24 Artur Greisser , a Nazi and the Danzig nominee on the Harbour Board , went to the office of one of the Polish engineers on the Board and threatened him with a revolver .
25 They battered him over the head and threatened him with a shotgun .
26 They seemed to know there was cash on the premises and threatened him with a knife .
27 The Doctor caught Francis 's eyes , and beckoned him with a nod of the head .
28 On the one hand , the promise , the expectation , warmed the pit of his stomach and flooded him with a sense of delicious possibilities ; on the other , something in him wondered whether this was n't all too easy , especially since the reins seemed to have been removed from his hands and were being expertly manipulated by someone else .
29 She looked at him and loved him with a mixture of passion and almost maternal tenderness .
30 We found him in a night club with his wife , and Flynn went straight up to him and flattened him with a single punch .
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