Example sentences of "beat him [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Then the orderly beats him over the head , pumps a couple of .38 's into Mahoney with a silenced gun , turns round and walks out .
2 Then they beat him with the pipes once again , but when they realized that he had managed to keep his secrets from them , that this small Englishman was not for talking , they turned on him in their fury and kicked and beat him until they feared they had killed him .
3 When he found the man he threw the acid into his face and beat him with the hammer , fracturing his skull and his thumb .
4 Andrew Chubb , prosecuting , claimed Blissett elbowed Uzzell after the defender beat him to the ball and headed it away .
5 Hell , I beat him to the handshake and it 's on camera . ’
6 A squall beat him into the bank .
7 But except for a brief interval , Blaize ruled for 10 unmemorable years until Gairy decisively beat him at the polls a few months after Britain granted the island wide autonomy in 1967 .
8 A former inmate at Gloucester jail has been telling a jury how a senior prison officer beat him across the back .
9 Wimbledon champion Edberg lasted until Courier beat him in the quarter finals .
10 Clarke 's corner caused a goalmouth melée and although the Prince goalkeeper parried a shot , Lee McAlonen 's right-foot drive beat him in the end .
11 Nevertheless , the Australian is still likely to preside over the punishment of the opponent who beat him in the World Open final .
12 Corsie 's semi-final opponent tomorrow will be Gary Smith who beat him in the final of the UK Championship five years ago .
13 Corsie 's semi-final opponent tomorrow will be Gary Smith who beat him in the final of the UK Championship five years ago .
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 But Davis , now with 65 tournament wins worldwide to his credit , has enormous respect for Doherty , who also beat him in the quarter-finals of October 's Rothmans Grand Prix .
16 However , if Europeans were exasperated with Carter , many had little liking either for the man who beat him in the November presidential elections .
17 When Cruz , a substitute opponent , beat him in the Nevada desert , the Ulsterman could never have guessed that six years later , from a Belfast court room , he would receive a bigger blow than the Texan ever dealt him .
18 Today I took on the world No 1 , and that 's not easy , and beat him from the back of the court .
19 ‘ If someone broke into your house and you caught him , you 'd beat him over the head , would n't you ? ’
20 She 'd beat him in the kitchen !
21 And they spat on him , and took the reed and began to beat him on the head , and after they had mocked him they took his robe off and put his garments on them and led him away to be , to crucify him .
22 We have , therefore , beaten him about the head with Eric Partridge 's unimpeachable Dictionary of Slang , which defines a gricer as an ‘ engine spotter . ’
23 Not only had we beaten him on the ridge , but without cars we had unwittingly beaten him back to the hotel .
24 There was something in her voice that reminded Tug that she was the one who had beaten him round the face .
25 And then as they passed the Odeon cinema the man lunged at him with his walking stick beating him over the head and arms .
26 I ca n't see any horse beating him in the Kentucky Derby .
27 Lewis added : ‘ Bowe 's stripping has robbed me of the chance of beating him in the ring .
28 I was beating him in the storyline , but he was , in reality , desperate to win all the races .
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