Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb past] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The carpenter looked at him , then at Benedicta and , throwing back his head , laughed hysterically until the porter struck him across the face . |
| 2 | The Prince patted him on the back . |
| 3 | The rye hid him from the French rankers , and only those officers on horseback could see the Rifleman over the tall crop . |
| 4 | Suddenly , to the Collector 's astonishment , the Padre gripped him by the throat and shouted : " A matter of opinion ! |
| 5 | Nieto was walking alongside the touchline when a ball kicked from within the field hit him in the face , breaking his glasses . |
| 6 | The gang assaulted him during the drive to Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire , then threw him out of the car . |
| 7 | Padding the streets and prying into the window of a man 's life , and the trail turned him towards the second-floor flat of Mrs Angela Holly ( née Wells ) , two miles from the home of her former husband and parents-in-law . |
| 8 | He did n't want to run into Ballater again ; his wish to purchase the cottage put him in the enemy camp and threatened his peace . |
| 9 | There was a vicious crack like a pistol-shot and the lash struck him across the back , splitting open the shirt , tearing the skin . |
| 10 | When Thomas tried to grab the child away , the lash caught him in the eye . |
| 11 | Andrew Chubb , prosecuting , claimed Blissett elbowed Uzzell after the defender beat him to the ball and headed it away . |
| 12 | The man with the shotgun hit him with the butt of the weapon , driving it deep into his stomach , doubling him over , dropping him to the floor . |
| 13 | The President drove him to the station . ’ |
| 14 | The handlebar caught him in the groin . |
| 15 | As he raised his binoculars to scan the coast , the wind struck him in the face . |
| 16 | The wind grabbed him under the arms and flipped him outwards and back as it had the torn raven banner already . |
| 17 | Davide had turned up a coin , one afternoon , when he was mooning around ; it was a common enough type , the professor told him in the museum at Riba , where he took it for an opinion . |
| 18 | The club struck him in the stomach again , dripping him to his knees , and there was a sudden crack that seemed unnaturally loud in the silence . |
| 19 | Wilson , more respectfully treated at Lord 's , where he recently stood down as MCC coach , than in his native county , offered Carrick wise counsel when the youngster replaced him in the Yorkshire side . |
| 20 | Again , Brian Harley hit a less-than-perfect drive , but his two-iron across the angle of the dogleg put him on the front edge of the green . |
| 21 | Four photographs of the wearer showed him in the act of jumping from an aircraft . |
| 22 | The ceiling reminded him about the church , the roof had been mended but really it was little more than a pig sty . |
| 23 | He felt nothing as the angel bore him to the grave below , no pain as the solid granite drove shattered ribs deep into his lungs . |
| 24 | Outside , the sun lashed him across the forehead with a warning of another headache to come , and he wished he had n't had a drink with lunch at paderborn . |
| 25 | He 's gone to ground since The Sun named him as the man who passed on a tape of a telephone call allegedly made by the Princess of Wales to an admirer on New Year 's Eve 1989 . |
| 26 | Because McKenzie know little or nothing about rugby , the coach tossed him into the front row . |
| 27 | ( 6 ) An empathetic question asks the pupil to become involved personally with the evidence , e.g. " If you had been the soldier standing behind Harold , say what you might have thought , felt and done at the moment the arrow hit him in the eye . " |
| 28 | She was not at the inn , not in the meadows , and when he finally found a sufficiently oblique way to ask where she might be , his misreading of the directions sent him along the wrong path past the wrong waterfall and up the surprisingly taxing slope of the wrong fell . |
| 29 | Even now the recollection seized him in the abdomen , and a kind of sick longing made him tremble . |
| 30 | The African told him of the anger in the hearts of his generation . |