Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] he [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Or she might drown him in the bath or push him under a train .
2 We had n't heard or seen him for a while so my father suggested I go round and check I 'm really horrified .
3 Or delivered him to a house in that vicinity ?
4 The final goal of all the Waldens , Dimblebys , and Days is to hit the headlines on the news broadcasts ( or in the next day 's papers ) by tripping up their interviewee or extorting an apology from him , or convicting him of a contradiction .
5 Again , if a dog-owner deliberately sets his dog on a peaceable citizen he is guilty of assault and battery in the ordinary way just as if he had flung a stone or hit him with a cudgel .
6 Yeltsin had said at a press conference after the Alma Ata meeting that " we do not want to follow the tradition which has taken shape since 1917 of burying each [ former ] head and leader of the state and subsequently reburying him or regarding him as a criminal " .
7 He would quite willingly lay aside his own business in order to take Hayward to a party , or wheel him in a park .
8 I then saw the other soldier standing behind him — either going to hit , or hitting him with a rifle on the leg , ’ he told the court .
9 Humility is to orient our lives towards God , so that we understand and obey him in a greater and greater sense .
10 According to Antony the Devil came to tempt and torture him in a variety of fantastical forms from lascivious women to wild beasts .
11 Then they peeled back the bedcovers and laid him on a crisp sheet , covering him from the waist down with another sheet .
12 And she brought forth her first-born son , and wrapped him in swaddling clothes , and laid him in a manger ; because there was no room for them in the inn .
13 And she brought forth her first born son , and wrapped him in swaddling clothes , and laid him in a manger. because there was no room for them in the inn .
14 " And she brought forth her first-born child , and laid him in a manger , because there was no place for them in the inn . "
15 I contrived to get Martinho beside Goreng 's jeep and laid him against a wheel .
16 She took Mungo 's case , hung up his mac and led him to a fire as lively as the one in the waiting-room .
17 Someone grabbed his arm , and led him to a waiting horse on which he galloped away leaving behind his winnings .
18 Despite the quality of mind which had won him his first-class honours degree and led him to a study of modern philosophical and psychological theory , he rode like a conqueror over the rules of logic and morality .
19 Sylvie wrapped her hand round Thomas 's arm and led him towards a far corner .
20 I told him this and asked him for a prescription for a warm , dry home .
21 So with this going on we found our company would get on better if I had collateral so I wrote to this boy and asked him for a million and put it in a trust fund that I would get after his death , and we that way so okay .
22 What I did n't mention to him was Gilbert 's phone call where he said she rang him on Saturday evening and asked him about a box . ’
23 He was unexpectedly a man of great gaiety and to see him at a dance was an absolute delight .
24 I made contact with Sheringham through an agent and met him at a hotel .
25 Dana ran after him , catching his arm and bringing him to a standstill .
26 But in the same split second something like an iron band clamped round his waist , squeezing the breath from him and bringing him to a dead stop .
27 Cameron wondered if it would be possible to raise the matter with him again , and bring him into a more realistic frame of mind , before the soldiers came .
28 But , as he rode , a terrible curiosity began to rise up in him and prick him like a gimlet .
29 Cecilia did not dislike Jarvis , she did not dislike anybody , but she feared and distrusted him as a bachelor with no regular job , no real income and a home which she was convinced would be sold to the property developers .
30 Shiona twisted round and pierced him with a look .
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