Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] him with " in BNC.
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| 31 | He 'd been there first , waiting , and I 'd walked up to the carefully prominent bait and presented him with a perfect target , a broad back in a scarlet sweater , an absolute cinch . |
| 32 | He wanted to marry her , but she laughed at him too , and said she had already made her choices and they did not include giving up her God and replacing him with a somewhat vulgar and certainly brutal man . |
| 33 | The sergeant instructed him to take him into the police station and charge him with taking a vehicle without consent — the offence as complete by moving it thirty yards . |
| 34 | In theory , it is a simple matter to overthrow a wilting strongman and replace him with a civilian president conveniently waiting in the wings . |
| 35 | Literally , Vitelli will kill her father and replace him with a son born of her . |
| 36 | A second group of provincial delegates arrived in St Petersburg just after his appointment and provided him with a sympathetic audience for his opinions . |
| 37 | She writes : ‘ We can not simply shift Jesus from center-stage and replace him with humanity or God by wishing it were so . ’ |
| 38 | The boy had not spoken since they thrust him into this sandstone cell under the ground and left him with his single candle and his narrow bed . |
| 39 | Then cake , the soft lemony Madeira cake Pilade and Pen loved , she could bake that and sprinkle it with sugar and tempt him with that . |
| 40 | It is all too easy to attribute changes in mood to drug therapy when in fact they have been the result of removing the patient from a stressful environment and providing him with support . |
| 41 | Will my hon. Friend join me in paying tribute to Mr. Martyn Rands , chairman of Basildon commuters ' club — and to his hard-working committee — who met my hon. Friend this morning and presented him with a petition , signed by 5,000 people in my constituency , complaining about the disgraceful service that they receive on the Fenchurch Street line ? |
| 42 | ‘ We got rid of an old woman and replaced him with a younger one , ’ Fergus said , mouth turned down at the corners , staring over his whisky tumbler and across the room to where his wife was talking to Antonia . |
| 43 | It 's highly unlikely , he argued , that people will unload their rubbish and leave him with games no-one wants . |
| 44 | The Mutawas offered the father moral support in his strong stance and showered him with accolades for his religious conviction . |
| 45 | She felt that if only she could reach her father-in-law and confront him with her fears for George 's safety , he would somehow make everything all right . |
| 46 | He made Willie cocoa and left him with Sammy to look at the ‘ straw roofs ’ while he went upstairs to put up more blackouts . |
| 47 | Jennie told Katharine to keep pushing with her inside leg and holding him with the outside rein to stop him walking forward . |
| 48 | If the accusation receive official confirmation , a messenger is sent to confront the witch and to ask him with all due civility to cease his evil influence . |
| 49 | If you believe the Thames Valley CID — not the account they gave at the inquest , when the events were still fresh in everyone 's minds , but the one they came up with in the months following my return to this country — then having lured Dennis on to the river and dosed him with draughts of spiked bubbly , Karen and I went ‘ One , two , three ’ and heaved him overboard . |
| 50 | Lee was behind him , holding on to the back of his anorak and bumping him with the torch . |
| 51 | B — can not get loose and seems to be choking and the crowd are on their feet yelling and waving their hands — the referee helped by both seconds manages to extricate B — but P — grabs him , a quick aeroplane spin , gets him with his left hand round the shoulder , right hand through his left , swings him three times round in the air and pins him with his shoulders on the floor for the count of three . |
| 52 | He toppled him forward on to the bed and covered him with a sheet . |
| 53 | He gently lifted Lachlan 's feet onto the bed and covered him with a plaid . |
| 54 | The ruling that there should be no prosecutions destroyed the hope that such court proceedings might uncover enough information to stir a public demand for a wider and more thorough inquiry into the background to the conspiracy to murder an innocent man and to frame him with stolen goods . |
| 55 | ( b ) That later on the same night , after Zaidie had reached home , the defendant had driven there with another man and confronted him with a gun and had said that he had come to move out Paulette. ( c ) That after that incident , but still in June 1986 , when Zaidie was driving into a friend 's house , the defendant drove up and , saying that he had heard that Zaidie had hit Paulette , again threatened to kill him if he touched her . |
| 56 | He thinks of previous reviews , of the drums beating , of the waving standards , of his generals covered with gold lace and saluting him with their swords , and of his guard shouting , ‘ Vive l'Empereur ! ’ |
| 57 | Gregory of Tours could at last write a coherent narrative of a barbarian ruler and provide him with a chronology . |
| 58 | On the one hand , the promise , the expectation , warmed the pit of his stomach and flooded him with a sense of delicious possibilities ; on the other , something in him wondered whether this was n't all too easy , especially since the reins seemed to have been removed from his hands and were being expertly manipulated by someone else . |
| 59 | But watch the Prince working a crowd and compare him with a politician in the same situation . |
| 60 | ‘ I floored the car into reverse and dragged him with me until he finally got smart and let go . |