Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] him [prep] [art] " 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 | I contrived to get Martinho beside Goreng 's jeep and laid him against a wheel . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But when Mr Wray punched him , Youngs picked up the hammer and struck him across the cheek . |
| 6 | The Chinese believe that to stand on one leg while kicking with the other unbalances the practitioner and places him at a disadvantage . |
| 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 | ‘ Socrates was the first man who thought about thinking , ’ she said , sitting on the window seat and surprising him in every way . |
| 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 | Reatus also allegedly jabbed Mr Mounsa in the neck and hit him with a dog chain . |
| 14 | He grabbed Rodomonte by the scruff of the neck and pushed him towards the light , holding his nose inches away from the crackling fluorescence . |
| 15 | Not with the shaft of a golf club driven through his neck and pinning him to the wooden floor . |
| 16 | He tried protesting to Selkirk , who simply struck him across the mouth and pushed him through the metal-studded door . |
| 17 | I made contact with Sheringham through an agent and met him at a hotel . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They then bundled him out of the car and left him on the road . |
| 20 | They insisted that Derek enter their car and drove him to a quiet layby a short distance away . |
| 21 | They bundled him into a car and drove him to a car park at the rear of Dysart Police Headquarters and afterwards to an isolated road . |
| 22 | Then when he stops , get out the car and grab him by the neck then throw then I . |
| 23 | I picked up a marrowbone and hit him on the head . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Then Pettit took a photograph and , he claimed , Enos attacked him — throwing him over a fence and punching him in a headlock . |
| 26 | Brian had not merely hated the cockerel but feared it since it had got through the fence and bitten him on the leg . |
| 27 | But Patsy decided she needed a hand with the unpacking and phoned him from the car on the way home . |
| 28 | Radical deputies pointed to Yanayev 's credentials as a bureaucrat and denounced him as an " old-style leader " , and regrets were also expressed that a non-Russian had not been nominated . |
| 29 | He also realised that this was a situation far beyond his metier and summoned the duty staff officer , who arrived resplendent in full ceremonials , pantaloons , highly polished knee-length riding boots , and regulation yellow walking stick , and visited Shaw in his billet and confronted him in a corner , where he held court . |
| 30 | Knowing how the crowd was on Tony 's side and treating him as the hero only seemed to make Lee more determined . |