Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb past] him with " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Reatus also allegedly jabbed Mr Mounsa in the neck and hit him with a dog chain .
2 They are essentially a form of nonsense verse for which Eliot had great affection and understanding ; he had lectured on the subject while in America in 1933 , and he once told Stravinsky that he considered Edward Lear to be a great poet and compared him with Mallarmé .
3 Len Seager had been conscious throughout the entire rescue operation and as Rachel joined him briefly in the back of the ambulance and covered him with an extra blanket he managed another smile .
4 I had to catch up the axe and hit him with the blunt end , knock him out .
5 The King of England in ancient times , he figures in fairy legends as follows : a mysterious creature covered in hair and cloven-hoofed , paid a visit to King Herla on the occasion of his marriage and showered him with many marvellous gifts .
6 It seemed like a minor miracle when she found herself seated within touching distance of the small group of musicians , until she realised that Rune was well-known here , not only by the management but , as the current number drew to a triumphant close , to the players as well , as they drew him on to the low rostrum and surrounded him with much back-slapping and laughter .
7 The Board accepted his letter of resignation with regret and presented him with a testimonial , a bowl and an album .
8 His parents were keen on the work ethic and equipped him with impeccable manners .
9 Artur Greisser , a Nazi and the Danzig nominee on the Harbour Board , went to the office of one of the Polish engineers on the Board and threatened him with a revolver .
10 Theda took Hector to the kitchen and left him with Mrs Elswick to do what he might in the way of cajolery , for she had several morsels of interest to his ever ready stomach , and Theda was obviously not going to take him outside .
11 They 've taken away the master computer file and charged him with , well , we do n't know exactly what but it involves an awful lot of money .
12 He pounded Benichou to the body and caught him with a right cross to the chin at the end of the first .
13 If she had walked into a room and found him with her bag in his hands , the decision would have been made for her .
14 Well Sir Marquess across the road it was his first wife who died of a brain tumour and left him with three daughters , as we know .
15 Another said that Russell had pulled a brick from out of the passage wall and hit him with it .
16 They battered him over the head and threatened him with a shotgun .
17 When the school children was Solowka boarding the van with the group , they naturally assumed he was off to join the convoy and teased him with shouts of ‘ Hippy . ’
18 The Southampton central defenders left it to Flowers — but Goddard 's challenge won him the ball and left him with a simple chance .
19 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 .
20 A second group of provincial delegates arrived in St Petersburg just after his appointment and provided him with a sympathetic audience for his opinions .
21 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 .
22 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 ?
23 ‘ 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 .
24 The Mutawas offered the father moral support in his strong stance and showered him with accolades for his religious conviction .
25 He made Willie cocoa and left him with Sammy to look at the ‘ straw roofs ’ while he went upstairs to put up more blackouts .
26 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 .
27 He toppled him forward on to the bed and covered him with a sheet .
28 He gently lifted Lachlan 's feet onto the bed and covered him with a plaid .
29 ( 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 .
30 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 .
  Next page