Example sentences of "[coord] it [verb] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had sailed to Ninfania from Illyria , in a big double bass of a galleon , with a prow carved like a volute , and it brought him to the shore in the harbour he then designated Ribaris , after the peak where the Ark had come to rest , once all the waters of the flood had drained out of the plughole of divine fury . |
| 2 | This meant that he never fought them on his own terms , always theirs , and it blinded him to the realisation that when all else failed , when all the appeals for ‘ fair play ’ fell on stony ground , that he could have utilised his mass following of workers to shake the ground beneath the Empire . |
| 3 | Although he controls other animals — horses and dogs — he is never able to catch the hart alive , and it escapes him in the moment of death . |
| 4 | ‘ Once , against Swindon a couple of seasons ago , there 's this fat cunt and Geoff 's standing outside the ground before the match and this cunt bungs a bit of old dog shit he 's found by a hall at him and it hits him on the arm … |
| 5 | When Endill opened the door they creaked in the draught and it reminded him of the old hanging tree beside the front gate back home at Gibbet Hall . |
| 6 | But it got him in the end . |