Example sentences of "men [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He said the two men attacked him with a tyre lever , hammer and a craft knife . |
| 3 | A pensioner 's training in the SAS saved him from serious injury when two men attacked him with a knife . |
| 4 | Coetzee 's men lured him across the South African border and shot him . |
| 5 | ‘ My men found him in the garden , not in the house . |
| 6 | In other classes learned men told him about the economic infrastructure of the Low Countries and Germany , and the Burmese rubber nexus . |
| 7 | The smaller man writhed on the ground in authentic agony , screaming and calling for help as the two bigger men pounded him with their feet and fists — an expert job , I must say . |
| 8 | While three men scrubbed him with a stiff yard broom , the rest of us stood to attention in front of the trough and sang ‘ Képi Blanc ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Men love him for his hearty back-slapping and hand-shaking , for his habit of bear-hugging his male aides when things are going well . |
| 11 | Only a small number of men accompanied him into the forest . |
| 12 | The man was disabled eight months after the soldiers died when UVF men shot him in the back . |