Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] him [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 A branch whipped him in the face .
2 During the two shorts months that it took to draft the White Paper , opposition could be quelled , using the new powers and wholehearted support given him by the Prime Minister .
3 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 .
4 The Minotaur was finally slain by Theseus , who found his way out of the labyrinth by trailing a skein of thread given him by the king 's daughter , ARIADNE .
5 No baptism has been traced , though his marriage certificate records him as the son of John Crockford , schoolmaster .
6 Bridhe and Seamus Ban consulted him about the amount of drink that would be needed , and were told to double it .
7 I have today won a concession from the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , in as much as he is going to give a delegation from the Southampton and district licensed victuallers an opportunity to see him at the Department to talk over some of these matters .
8 On 26 March , back in Chicago , Coleman applied for a US passport in the name of Thomas J. Leavy , using the birth certificate given him by the CIA in 1982 and the documents issued in Washington .
9 Ferdinand believed Godoy was scheming for a regency to exclude him from the throne ; Godoy knew that Ferdinand was intriguing against him with the French ambassador .
10 The gang assaulted him during the drive to Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire , then threw him out of the car .
11 When Thomas tried to grab the child away , the lash caught him in the eye .
12 One group dismissed the Prime Minister 's offer as an attempt to co-opt him into the ruling Chart Thai party and thus disarm his independent political ambitions .
13 Part of the confusion came from the unworthy pleasure given him by the prospect of holding onto his ward a little longer .
14 In 1911 , aged twenty-nine , the Crown Prince was sent off to Danzig to command a Hussar Regiment ( it was a fairly transparent form of exile to preserve him from the temptations of political and amorous indiscretion in Berlin ) , but he showed himself singularly adept at escaping from the tedium of regimental duties .
15 An ad in the Sevenoaks Chronicle led him to the white 1988 Sierra Sapphire 1.8 LX , advertised at £3750 .
16 Andrew Chubb , prosecuting , claimed Blissett elbowed Uzzell after the defender beat him to the ball and headed it away .
17 The second lorry ran into the car 's side sandwiching him in the wreckage .
18 The blow came at a meeting on Saturday when members voted not to let him stand as an election candidate — despite a recommendation to accept him by the executive committee .
19 The handlebar caught him in the groin .
20 The President drove him to the station . ’
21 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 .
22 It was an attempt to lead him to the realization that this was something that would n't work …
23 The League ruled that the striking off of Grima from the Widnes register and an attempt to replace him with the Tongan forward , Boblyn Tuavao , was ‘ unacceptable ’ .
24 His Italian blood attracted him to the most powerful Latins in America , and nobody who knew about his Mafioso connections messed with him .
25 His 60-year-old wife called in police , claiming he had punched her during the early hours after the ceremony to install him as the 18th civic leader at Stockton .
26 Perhaps he walks on the right side , with just the metal grid fence separating him from the rolling fields of graves — in no hurry , since there is no class for him to make .
27 A ceremony to swear him into the post was to have been held tomorrow .
28 The President called him into the room .
29 " Frith could have killed El-ahrairah at once , but he had a mind to keep him in the world , because he needed him to sport and jest and play tricks .
30 He marries Julia Maplesone , whose extravagance lands him in the Fleet Prison , and who deserts him whilst he is there .
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