Example sentences of "he [vb past] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Angry Brian Reatus , 44 , allegedly foamed at the mouth as he pinned him to the wall . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When he met him in the office , or on the stairs , his habitually offensive glance seemed to have a new dimension of thoughtfulness . |
| 4 | Pulling Mickey away gently , he led him through the front of the shop and out into the street . |
| 5 | Unfortunately he phoned him in the middle of the night . |
| 6 | He found him in a comer of the hall , already half-drunk . |
| 7 | In fact , he found him in a state of positive animation , in conversation with Chatterton about the dangers of travelling by public transport . |
| 8 | He found him in a couple of minutes , before he had properly left the house . |
| 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 | The man was toying with him and treating him with contempt , by showing just how little he rated him as an opponent . |
| 12 | He caught him by the shirt . |
| 13 | ‘ He created him as the person who could do all the things that grown ups are not allowed to do . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Hilbert leant towards Lewis when he told him about the will and gave him a pat on the knee . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ You may perhaps gain the kingdom of heaven by your prayers , ’ he told him in an unkind moment , ‘ but never the kingdom of Great Britain . ’ |
| 18 | AN ARMED robber ‘ executed ’ a security guard because he recognised him as a former schoolmate , a court was told yesterday . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He showed him into the living room where Sammy greeted him , wagging his tail . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In July 1908 he recruited him to the Board of Trade with the responsibility of making the proposals a reality . |
| 24 | Then he jabbed him in the ribs again . |
| 25 | Mr Sanchez recalls that on one occasion , Mr Keith Richards , a musician once fond of exotic medication , was so vexed by his hound Caesar 's nocturnal barking that he administered him with a soporific known colloquially as a ‘ mandie ’ . |
| 26 | So he walked him round the beat until the sergeant found him . |
| 27 | Sometimes he fancied him in the room , and said , ‘ I must just speak to John Bunyan ; he 's over there … |
| 28 | ‘ Then he called him in a loud voice , and said to me , ‘ I think John Bunyan must be deaf . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Then walking to where Grierson was cowering against the wall , he grabbed him around the throat . |