Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] him with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | English economics provided him with the two antinomies he needed , proletariat and bourgeoisie , as the polarised , opposites of the dialectic . |
| 3 | perhaps the truth is that in the field of economic policy , Keynes 's preference for a managed economy aligned him with the new Liberals : hence the handsome tribute he paid to J. A. Hobson , in spite of the fact that he regarded him as mistaken . |
| 4 | Educational success provided him with the means of breaching the barrier of his lowly birth and enabled him to gain access to the lower echelons of the petty bourgeoisie as an engineer in the French railway system . |
| 5 | The Council of the society rewarded him with the much coveted Copley medal for his work on airs and soda water . |
| 6 | When Putiatin rapidly proved a dismal failure at the Ministry of Education , the tsar replaced him with the much more enlightened Aleksandr Golovnin . |
| 7 | Quakers breathed a sigh of relief when Fashanu 's right-foot blast took a wicked deflection and floated just past the post when Prudhoe was diving the other way , but he was laughing after 39 minutes when the Darlington defence presented him with the most embarrassing gift of the season . |
| 8 | A gun barrel thrust into the fireplace provided him with the means of heating substances to high temperatures . |
| 9 | Seeing that Teclis could not be dissuaded , the High Loremaster gifted him with the War Crown of Saphery and let him go . |
| 10 | Freddie Head , rider of Pistol Packer , opined that ‘ Mill Reef was the best horse I 've ever seen ’ , and the French press compared him with the horse whose stunning victory in the Arc six years earlier had marked him out as the very best horse of the era : ‘ Comme Sea Bird II — mais plus vite ’ , raved Paris-Turf He was indeed plus vite , for his Arc time of 2 minutes 28.3 seconds set a new course record . |
| 11 | The raider threatened him with the gun , and a quantity of cash and cigarettes were handed over . |
| 12 | The master hit him with the serving spoon , then seized Oliver 's arms and shouted for the beadle . |
| 13 | Again fortune favoured him with the death of the Empress in November 1198 and his wardship of the young Frederick II which allowed him advantages denied to his predecessors , not the least of which was the opportunity to build a stronger Papal State . |
| 14 | He received one notable fillip when , at the 10th , an elderly couple exhorted him with the idea that his would be a fine win to set alongside Antonio Pinto 's success in the London Marathon . |
| 15 | The company of women was by no means disagreeable — he had , after all , been brought up in a similar household — and the Mirrlees family provided him with the kind of comfort and security which his life otherwise lacked . |
| 16 | Next came the rinsing , then the part he liked best of all … standing naked before the warm fire , while his mammy dried him with the soft towel that wrapped round him like a cloak . |
| 17 | Just after Nicholas had completed the subjugation of the Poles , the Ottoman Empire threatened him with the need for further military action . |