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

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1 When , a long time ago now , Stephen had tried to call him Dad or Father and drop the babyish name , he had shouted that Stephen was all he had in the world and could n't he have a little bit of kindness and call him by the one name that meant something ?
2 If you put your Orc Shaman on a wyvern and fly him to the other end of the battlefield he wo n't be able to use his Waaagh magic .
3 Rosie had bitten him twice in the past ; once when she managed to free herself by chewing through her tethering-rope , and once when she leaped through the window of Buddie 's jeep and chased him into the pig-yard .
4 Then suddenly he thrust his head between his owner 's legs and hoisted him into the trough with a resounding splash !
5 But when Mr Wray punched him , Youngs picked up the hammer and struck him across the cheek .
6 Selkirk stood , looked down at Corbett and patted him on the head .
7 I struck out feebly in self-defence and hit him across the chest , which increased his rage .
8 And finally two Ayr police officers said that a shelved 1969 report showed they had picked up a man ‘ of slight build and a Glasgow accent who said his name was McGuigan or McGuinness ’ some 600 yards from the Ross bungalow in the early hours of the morning of the murder and dropped him at the bus station ; and they now declared from photographs recently shown to them that the man was William McGuinness .
9 On Dec. 4 Kaunda dismissed his Defence Minister , Lt. Gen. Hannaniah Lungu and replaced him with the former Deputy Defence Minister , Dodson Siatalimi .
10 ‘ He went to put his hand inside his jacket , then another passenger jumped out of his seat and threw him through the doors .
11 Alyssia wished that it would somehow whip around his neck and strangle him on the spot .
12 She threw her arms round his neck and kissed him on the lips , enveloping him in discreetly expensive perfume .
13 He grabbed Rodomonte by the scruff of the neck and pushed him towards the light , holding his nose inches away from the crackling fluorescence .
14 Not with the shaft of a golf club driven through his neck and pinning him to the wooden floor .
15 He tried protesting to Selkirk , who simply struck him across the mouth and pushed him through the metal-studded door .
16 She had n't told him much except that she did not like her neighbour Fireman Mosse and blamed him for the death of his wife .
17 He let in the estate agent and took him over the house , into the drawing room and the dining room , upstairs to the Pincushion Room , the Centaur Room , the Room of Astonishment , the Deathbed Room , the Room Without a Name , and then back down the back stairs to that jumble of kitchens and scullery and washhouse and coal-store , most of it a nineteenth century addition .
18 A crowd of eager customers would be awaiting his arrival outside the shops and attack him for the particular colour , size or style of dress they had been waiting for .
19 They then bundled him out of the car and left him on the road .
20 Then when he stops , get out the car and grab him by the neck then throw then I .
21 I picked up a marrowbone and hit him on the head .
22 His business licenses him to fraternise with the enemy and casts him in the role of a Microsoft independent software developer-come-OEM , complete with an early access copy of Microsoft NT .
23 Mr Kendall , you came through the hole , found Mr Goodhaven and brought him to the surface .
24 Josh Gifford wheeled Honey End round , took him back a few paces and put him at the fence a second time .
25 Brian had not merely hated the cockerel but feared it since it had got through the fence and bitten him on the leg .
26 But Patsy decided she needed a hand with the unpacking and phoned him from the car on the way home .
27 Alan wrapped one of his cot blankets round his shoulders and took him to the kitchen to make a drink .
28 She laid her hands on Peter 's shoulders and kissed him on the cheek .
29 He was very nearly as tall as her , but she put an arm under his shoulders and supported him to the untidy room which served as the stable office , calling to one of the stable girls to take over the class .
30 Absolutely , ’ he said , hooking an arm around the man 's shoulders and leading him from the porch .
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