Example sentences of "[vb past] him [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His family visited him in the cells before leving the court . |
| 2 | Loretta put down her book , grasped him by the shoulders , and heaved him back into the arms of his tormentors . |
| 3 | One evening , perched in his landing window , he shot towards my wife with an air rifle and I reported him to the police . |
| 4 | Hillier , who 's since served a jail sentence himself in connection with the fiddle , reported him to the police . |
| 5 | Swiftly she caught him under the armpits and heaved until she managed to persuade him from the ground . |
| 6 | He wanted to get back to his lodging house as soon as he could and get out of his suit , these tight-fitting shoes and his new white shirt which was just a little too small and caught him under the arms . |
| 7 | The boy rolled over and came on to one knee in a single lunge , and hurling himself at the man , caught him round the thighs with both arms , and swept him with him through the opening . |
| 8 | ‘ One of the patrol cameras caught him in the Frames making harvest . ’ |
| 9 | Joe started when Harry 's elbow caught him in the ribs as he said , ‘ I wonder if my illustrious brother will be as insufferable as he was during the Christmas holidays ? ’ |
| 10 | Middlemass caught him by the shoulders and felt the weight of his head against his chest . |
| 11 | Here his former pupils , Sandys and Cranmer , found him with the Odes of Horace in his hand , tending his sheep . |
| 12 | I met him at Aunt Alicia 's because he rented half the house , and then I helped him with the horses . |
| 13 | Then they beat him with the pipes once again , but when they realized that he had managed to keep his secrets from them , that this small Englishman was not for talking , they turned on him in their fury and kicked and beat him until they feared they had killed him . |
| 14 | But except for a brief interval , Blaize ruled for 10 unmemorable years until Gairy decisively beat him at the polls a few months after Britain granted the island wide autonomy in 1967 . |
| 15 | But Davis , now with 65 tournament wins worldwide to his credit , has enormous respect for Doherty , who also beat him in the quarter-finals of October 's Rothmans Grand Prix . |
| 16 | The 31-year-old needs an operation on a calf injury which dogged him in the weeks before Saturday 's FA Cup final defeat by Liverpool . |
| 17 | The 31-year-old needs an operation on a calf injury which dogged him in the weeks before Saturday 's FA Cup final defeat by Liverpool . |
| 18 | Earlier he had visited the American Consulate , where an attractive and sympathetic fellow countrywoman from North Carolina had advised him on all the sad yet necessary procedures consequent upon the death of an American national in Britain , and acquainted him with the costs of the transatlantic conveyancing of corpses . |
| 19 | The American people told him at the polls what they had been screaming from the rooftops for two years . |
| 20 | Athelstan told him of the visits to the death house and the gibbet . |
| 21 | When Vivien appeared on the set badly made-up , with her wig perched ridiculously high on her head and refusing to alter a single thing , Asher reluctantly called Olivier and told him of the problems . |
| 22 | The police told him of the allegations from three children , but were , in his words , ‘ fairly vague ’ about the questioning . |
| 23 | Unable to hold his excitement , Clark telephoned Professor Frank Cox of King 's College London and told him of the results . |
| 24 | Strange , I never told him about the horrors of Maubisson . ) |
| 25 | ‘ Gog sent us to prison because we told him about the holes in the AOL . ’ |
| 26 | She told him about the notes , the broken glass and spilled wine that had shaken her so much at the time . |
| 27 | She explained the need for absolute cleanliness , showed him where he could wash , and told him about the masks and gowns . |
| 28 | I told him about the frogs and all he could think of was socks ! ’ |
| 29 | Grimma , in between sobs , told him about the frogs . |
| 30 | I told him about the sunsets , when the Jungfrau had turned pink and I was the only person on the Aletsch . |