Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] he [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I 'ad to hit him with an ornament , and when his fam'ly got back from church 'is wife asked him what 'ad happened to his face .
2 Since someone tried to kill him with a parcel bomb back in Lusaka , he 's moved several times and today still goes in fear of his life .
3 They tried to eject him from the podium .
4 ‘ You are naughty , wicked and bad , ’ she cried as she pretended to hit him over the head .
5 As he passed Garry he pretended to punch him in the arm .
6 Italian club Torino tried to tempt him to the land of loads of lira , but Nigel 's mother put the block on that move .
7 Marc got up , face like a thunder-cloud , the look he gave Peter designed to shrivel him on the spot .
8 ERIC Butler , a charity worker , fought back with his swordstick when a mugger tried to strangle him on the London Underground in 1987 .
9 I dived towards the scarlet streaks and touched him at once , but there was no movement in him , and when I tried to pull him to the surface , I could n't .
10 The 30-year-old man , who has not been named , died despite the efforts of coastguards and ambulancemen , who tried to revive him after a failed rescue attempt by surfers .
11 Our men tried to shoot him in the water , but it was dark , there was no moon — and we lost him .
12 His General Practitioner was notified by telephone of his impending discharge and promised to visit him within a couple of days .
13 He felt hammer blows to his arm before Dean tried to stab him with a screwdriver .
14 He felt hammer blows to his arm before Dean tried to stab him with a screwdriver .
15 Dalgliesh got out of the Jaguar and tried to extricate him from the pushchair , but the anatomy of the chair momentarily defeated him .
16 But the common story , so far as we can tell , was of a prospering contado helping a few of the citizens to be successful merchants , carrying local market goods and some from longer distances ; and if Francis ' father had not been a successful merchant trading into France , the saint would not have borne the name he did , nor suffered the intense reaction to his father 's worldly values which helped to inspire him on the path to poverty and heaven .
17 It was former Dublin manager Kevin Heffernan who , McGilligan reckons , helped to put him on the road to success .
18 But I 've got a lot of time for Tom Clarke , he 's a nice man and it would be absolutely disgusting if anyone tried to dump him at the moment . ’
19 Anyway , the outcome was that the other members tried to expel him from the branch .
20 On one occasion , they tried to interest him in the piano but that finished within three weeks with two surprises .
21 She and Keith 's distraught fiancee Ann Sole desperately tried to save him with the kiss of life and heart massage .
22 Chapman called at Bastin 's home and tried to convince him of the spectacular career he would have at Highbury .
23 In 1657 Crofton tried to bar him from the pulpit , as a heretic and troublemaker .
24 His talent for imaginative lying helped to elect him to the Senate after the war as ‘ Tail Gunner Joe ’ .
25 He then tried to toss him in the air .
26 A paper boy on his morning round was grabbed by a man who then tried to drag him into a waiting car .
27 The boy was deliverying papers in Kingham village just before seven this morning when a man tried to drag him into a waiting estate car .
28 As he approached the water she begged him to come with her and tried to drag him into the sea .
29 With Southampton trailing 2-1 and desperate for an equaliser , he grabbed the fan around the head and tried to drag him from the pitch .
30 A YOUNG Tyrone man has claimed British intelligence officers tried to recruit him as an informer while he was on holiday in Spain .
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