Example sentences of "he [vb past] he [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 I do n't know when he , when he was looking for that old chap , I think one of the girls threw something at him hit him in the eye .
2 The building of the Henry Ford factory on the Marina had been started a few years before ; and Denis , whose regular walks to Blackrock — solitary now that his father was no longer there to accompany him took him past the site , had watched its growth from the first brick .
3 Love reaching out to him took him by the heart and wrung him .
4 Angry Brian Reatus , 44 , allegedly foamed at the mouth as he pinned him to the wall .
5 Mr Woodcock , 47 , of Holgate , York , grabbed the weapon with one hand and it went off , blasting a wall with pellets , but he hung on , dragging the raider into the car park outside the restaurant , where he pinned him to the ground until armed police arrived .
6 When he met him in the office , or on the stairs , his habitually offensive glance seemed to have a new dimension of thoughtfulness .
7 Pulling Mickey away gently , he led him through the front of the shop and out into the street .
8 Unfortunately he phoned him in the middle of the night .
9 He found him in the station buffet slouched against the counter eating toasted tea-cakes .
10 The scene of crime officer kept looking at him , as if he found him in the way but did not know how to say so .
11 He caught him by the shirt .
12 He created him as the person who could do all the things that grown ups are not allowed to do .
13 Hudson , who had played the most fluently for his 30 from 54 balls , was caught behind trying to cut Harper , who was also rewarded with the wicket of Rushmere when he beat him in the flight .
14 Hilbert leant towards Lewis when he told him about the will and gave him a pat on the knee .
15 He told him of the goal that has held him through three years in the University of the North — a campus from which student riots have spread through the country .
16 He had noticed the same man several times during the day , culminating about 5.40pm when he noticed him on the corner of Cross Street and Friar Street .
17 He showed him into the living room where Sammy greeted him , wagging his tail .
18 In a violent struggle , the policeman found it necessary to unscrew the man 's wooden leg as he wrestled him to the ground , striking him across the head with his truncheon .
19 Lord Harris admits Robertson has ‘ some weaknesses that , if not curbed , could totally cancel out his strengths ’ , but he defended him before the academic advisory council , on the grounds that he had not been sufficiently protected by guidelines , and that it would be difficult to find a replacement with his many gifts .
20 In July 1908 he recruited him to the Board of Trade with the responsibility of making the proposals a reality .
21 Then he jabbed him in the ribs again .
22 So he walked him round the beat until the sergeant found him .
23 Sometimes he fancied him in the room , and said , ‘ I must just speak to John Bunyan ; he 's over there …
24 A vet who checked family records discovered he was 17 to 18 years old when he examined him at the Halewood RSPCA shelter yesterday evening .
25 Then walking to where Grierson was cowering against the wall , he grabbed him around the throat .
26 Finally he grabbed him by the collar , and with a spasmodic effort tipped him off the wharf into the canal .
27 ‘ Several people who were present say he was n't , and a cabby says he delivered him to the Post on Friday afternoon .
28 Though he reassured him about the boy 's future , his calling Isaac his ‘ only son ’ when he commands him to go to the land of Moriah might well suggest those assurances were empty and meant nothing .
29 The shooting gallery was open to members of the public , and was the scene of a spectacular feat of arms by Horace Hunter , who hit the target ‘ in the second buttonhole of the waistcoat , five times out of every six , and when he did n't hit there , he hit him in the head ’ .
30 Last night at our gig in Cardiff there was a bouncer at the front and he caught a youngster and he hit him in the throat , and he could have killed him .
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