Example sentences of "[num ord] [vb past] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | The second hit him in the back then travelled upwards for about eight inches before bursting out of his chest . |
2 | The second hit him in the right shoulder , the impact lifting him off his feet and sending him toppling towards the head of the stairs . |
3 | I first met him during the early 1950s and I became editor of what I believe was the second journal in the now enormous Pergamon Press stable . |
4 | They first met him on the platform at Liverpool Street station during one of their regular Friday shuttles between Norfolk and London . |
5 | The unsatisfactoriness of the competing claims of various philosophers first led him to the belief that scientific knowledge of nature was unattainable by the human mind . |
6 | The first hit him on the bridge of the nose , almost severing the appendage and taking out an eye as it exited . |
7 | I had been horrified at his scarecrow appearance when I first saw him at the clinic , and when I met him by chance in Tala-Tala I felt so sorry for him that I asked him if he would like to come for dinner . |
8 | He was wearing the crumpled suit he had been wearing on the day Robert first saw him in the pub . |
9 | ‘ When I first saw him in the orphanage , he had a swollen head and a tiny little starved body with a pot belly . |
10 | John 's route first took him along the south coast of England during a heatwave then around the south west peninsula and Wales to Holyhead where he crossed to Dublin in November . |
11 | His interests include outdoor activities of fishing , climbing and walking which first introduced him to the area and DIY and cookery . |
12 | It was his own early instincts as a risk taker which first put him on the path that was ultimately to lead to him becoming chairman and chief executive of Hilton International . |
13 | The 18th found him in the custody of two Maidenhead cavalry officers who took him back to Reading . |
14 | Missing from Linda Finnie 's highly charged Eboli was the vein of capricious elegance that is an integral part of her character , and Jonathan Summers 's powerful , dignified Rodrigo has coarsened in tone since I last heard him in the role . |
15 | A third took him into the garden where he looked at the neat undisturbed flower-beds . |