Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Drawing refreshed him as a long walk refreshed him , and it was part of the art of forgetting slights , frustrations , old wounds , so necessary if he was to survive and stay serene . |
| 32 | The second lorry ran into the car 's side sandwiching him in the wreckage . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | The handlebar caught him in the groin . |
| 35 | That morning , as he galloped along the ride between the trees in the Tiergarten , his horse 's hooves kicked up the powdered snow filling him with a fierce joy . |
| 36 | The President drove him to the station . ’ |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | It was an attempt to lead him to the realization that this was something that would n't work … |
| 39 | A journalist interviewed him for a book about his family , and when The Nielsons appeared , it made no mention at all of his professional life . |
| 40 | 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 ’ . |
| 41 | His Italian blood attracted him to the most powerful Latins in America , and nobody who knew about his Mafioso connections messed with him . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | [ William Golding , The Inheritors ] It requires careful attention to realize that here we are seeing , through the uncomprehending mind of Lok , a man 's attempt to shoot him with an arrow . |
| 44 | Hearts ' defender was in Roxburgh 's original squad and it was always the intention to play him after a worthwhile display against Portugal in October . |
| 45 | Complaining that a recent photograph showed him with an unrecyclable styrofoam coffee cup , he denounced it as ‘ politically incorrect ’ . |
| 46 | The priest measured him with a pitying look . |
| 47 | Scarlatti and Bach reveal his ear for tonal colour , and miniatures as unlike as Beethoven 's Ecossaise in E flat and his own ear-tickling Valse amour confirm him as a charmer of the first order . |
| 48 | It had not been her intention to favour him with a compliment . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | A ceremony to swear him into the post was to have been held tomorrow . |
| 51 | The President called him into the room . |
| 52 | A pale blue light puzzled him for a moment , until he realised that it was the Calor gas stove in the galley . |
| 53 | " 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 . |
| 54 | He marries Julia Maplesone , whose extravagance lands him in the Fleet Prison , and who deserts him whilst he is there . |
| 55 | Sorrel watched him for a few seconds , then snatched it out of his hands and stuck it in her mouth . |
| 56 | Or let him acknowledge that while it is rational doubt for him as a liberal humanist to criticize the Buddhist , the Marxist or the Christian , it might equally be a rational doubt for the Marxist to criticize him as a humanist . |
| 57 | Smith has been dismissed as ‘ presence of mind Smith ’ from his alleged remark on returning without his companion from a disastrous outing on the river : ‘ If I had not with great presence of mind hit him on the head with a boathook both would have been drowned , ’ but the story comes from Reminiscences of Oxford ( 1st edn. 1900 ) by William Tuckwell , who in his second edition ( 1907 ) consigned it to oblivion ; moreover , there was no charge of murder . |
| 58 | It costs a great deal to keep him in the home , as well as your father . ’ |
| 59 | EASTWOOD 'S FIRST American movie finds him as a modern-day Deputy who travels from Arizona to New York and finds his values challenged by a community represented by social workers , hippies and ulcer-ridden cops . |
| 60 | The man with the shotgun hit him with the butt of the weapon , driving it deep into his stomach , doubling him over , dropping him to the floor . |