Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | John Browne 's neighbours buried him at the gable-end of his humble cottage . |
| 32 | Just under a hundred yards separated him from the police officers of two nations when he died . |
| 33 | The file of other passengers followed him across the iron-hard snow , to where a queue of strange vehicles waited for them , engines ticking over . |
| 34 | The passengers pulled him onto the rock . |
| 35 | The farmers ' wives indulged him in the harshness of his religious practices , never minding that he brought his own delph and cutlery and would eat only boiled eggs and bread . |
| 36 | Conflicts with his superiors deprived him of the prospect of promotion , and at the age of twenty-five he found himself on the retired list , reduced to half pay in 1812 . |
| 37 | Moran who had been watching as anxiously as the two girls met him at the wooden gate . |
| 38 | But the sight of her in tears disarmed him in the strangest way . |
| 39 | Joseph had been the guardian of the women and children throughout the long march , and though he conferred constantly with the other headmen , the whites regarded him as the figurehead of the Nez Perce resistance . |
| 40 | The players told him after the game that the lights did not trouble them as much as sunlight . |
| 41 | One of the youths slashed him across the nose and he needed eight stitches in the wound . |
| 42 | The family lawyers contacted him in the USA . |
| 43 | Some bullets hit him in the air and more bullets hit him as he lay on the ground . |
| 44 | Two bullets hit him in the left arm , and numerous metal fragments flew into his face , including a piece in his jaw which could never be extracted . |
| 45 | Everyone at the Palace was pleased when Mel won an FA Cup winner 's medal with Southampton in 1976 , but he re-appeared briefly in our colours on loan in the winter of 1977–78 and his extra half-dozen games took him into the elite group of those who have played over 250 first class matches for our club . |
| 46 | but , I did hear something , I do n't know whether it 's true , that the doctors took him off the |
| 47 | Three victories took him into the overall lead with 97 points by Christmas . |
| 48 | These journeys took him to the furthest extent of the colonies , from Lake Ontario to Virginia and into the Carolinas and Florida . |
| 49 | A few easy moves brought him to the sanctuary of the belay ledge . |
| 50 | In recognition of his enormous contribution to world tennis , fellow ITF members presented him during the World Champions Dinner in the elegant Pavilion Gabriel in Paris , during the French Open , with a specially commissioned bust , complete with that pugnacious chin which perfectly reflects the determined response he has always presented to any potentially damaging challenge . |
| 51 | Though fictitious , his ‘ cross-Channel ’ landholdings and family connections put him into the company of Geoffroi de Joinville or Aymer de Valence |
| 52 | Anti-Europeans interrupted him over the failure of the ERM . |
| 53 | As William slid the bolts the doors suddenly swung violently outwards , throwing him off balance , and before he could recover two heavily built men pinned him against the office wall . |
| 54 | The ex-Scots Guardsman claims Thai police framed him over the death of fiancee Pranon Sauychaisri , 30 , who fell from the balcony of their flat . |
| 55 | Coetzee 's men lured him across the South African border and shot him . |
| 56 | ‘ My men found him in the garden , not in the house . |
| 57 | The police told him of the allegations from three children , but were , in his words , ‘ fairly vague ’ about the questioning . |
| 58 | In other classes learned men told him about the economic infrastructure of the Low Countries and Germany , and the Burmese rubber nexus . |
| 59 | The world champion may not be worried about the £500 fine handed out for throwing the last game of his bizarre straight-games loss to Jahangir Khan in the final of last month 's Stuttgart Open , but he should be more concerned at the zero computer points assigned him for the Stuttgart tournament , which may enable Jahangir to overtake him in the New Year rankings , plus the fact that any further misdemeanour will probably mean draconian punishment . |
| 60 | The first two shots took him in the shoulder and the left chest . |