Example sentences of "man [verb] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten years ago , when Davey Boy was a mere unknown moving to America and desperate to make a name for himself , the Hit Man helped him on the ladder to success . |
| 2 | Gallagher struggled ; a man cuffed him across the mouth as one would a bucking horse . |
| 3 | The young man followed him into the hall , carefully wiping his feet on the mat . |
| 4 | But erm , the next one went can I have an ice-cream please ? and the the man hit him over the with the head with a baseball bat and he died . |
| 5 | When the boy gave no answer , the old man took him by the arm and propelled him to the far end of the room , down the narrow stairway , through the tiny door and back to the safety of his own bedroom . |
| 6 | Outside the hotel he had fought down misgivings at the idea of allowing an old man to drag him through the streets when he could easily have walked , and he began to wonder if he should dismount . |
| 7 | As William slid the bolts the doors suddenly swung violently outwards , throwing him off balance , and before he could recover two heavily built men pinned him against the office wall . |
| 8 | Coetzee 's men lured him across the South African border and shot him . |
| 9 | ‘ My men found him in the garden , not in the house . |
| 10 | In other classes learned men told him about the economic infrastructure of the Low Countries and Germany , and the Burmese rubber nexus . |
| 11 | He does not claim to offer us some ‘ truth ’ separable from himself , but challenges men to recognise him as the one who is the truth , and the truth into which we too are brought out of our own untruthfulness when we recognise who he is . |
| 12 | Only a small number of men accompanied him into the forest . |
| 13 | The man was disabled eight months after the soldiers died when UVF men shot him in the back . |