Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keller 's Zurich upbringing made him into a skiier and sculler , and he raced for the Grasshopper club . |
| 2 | A branch whipped him in the face . |
| 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 | Bridhe and Seamus Ban consulted him about the amount of drink that would be needed , and were told to double it . |
| 5 | This week , the ageing lothario was horrified when a cloth-capped pensioner pursued him down a street , wreathed in smiles and waving an autograph book , The Rolling Stone coldly ignored him , appalled at being associated with a gummy grandad and perhaps being all too forcibly reminded of his own advancing years . |
| 6 | The gang assaulted him during the drive to Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire , then threw him out of the car . |
| 7 | that experience changed him in every way . |
| 8 | When Thomas tried to grab the child away , the lash caught him in the eye . |
| 9 | Manitou , ( the Great Spirit ) was so touched by the Indian 's devotion that upon his death Manitou made him into a rock standing off the inlet , and that monument has been called Siwash Rock ever since . |
| 10 | Hooks of meat , barrows of vegetables , trays of pies , urns of tea passed him in every direction . |
| 11 | An ad in the Sevenoaks Chronicle led him to the white 1988 Sierra Sapphire 1.8 LX , advertised at £3750 . |
| 12 | A PEER with a distinguished war record who became a Conservative minister , Warden of Winchester College and businessman , yesterday described to a High Court jury his horror when he realised a pamphlet described him as a war criminal . |
| 13 | Andrew Chubb , prosecuting , claimed Blissett elbowed Uzzell after the defender beat him to the ball and headed it away . |
| 14 | Defeat entered him like a heart attack , stunning the centre of his system . |
| 15 | To flesh out the story , the DIA provided him with a German mailing address , Postfach 1151 , Geilhausen 6460 , from which all correspondence , including anything from the DIA , would be readdressed to Coleman 's maildrop in Barrington , Illinois . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The handlebar caught him in the groin . |
| 18 | The President drove him to the station . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | His Italian blood attracted him to the most powerful Latins in America , and nobody who knew about his Mafioso connections messed with him . |
| 22 | Complaining that a recent photograph showed him with an unrecyclable styrofoam coffee cup , he denounced it as ‘ politically incorrect ’ . |
| 23 | The priest measured him with a pitying look . |
| 24 | A pale blue light puzzled him for a moment , until he realised that it was the Calor gas stove in the galley . |
| 25 | Sorrel watched him for a few seconds , then snatched it out of his hands and stuck it in her mouth . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The wind grabbed him under the arms and flipped him outwards and back as it had the torn raven banner already . |
| 29 | The department sent him on an Assertive Course . |
| 30 | Even though he had a job to go to with Birmingham Repertory Company , his agent sent him to the Rank interview for the experience . |