Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] he [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he had known his man , and cared for what he knew , he could have battered Albany 's son and heir into surrender , instead of hauling his horse off from crushing or smothering him in the mud . |
| 2 | He started keeping Fred and himself to timetables , so that she knew where she was , and cut out eating with Fred after the show or seeing him in the daytime at weekends . |
| 3 | Or she might drown him in the bath or push him under a train . |
| 4 | Or push him off the ball or something |
| 5 | Notes in Winston Churchill 's files suggested that Britain 's options were either to send a " correct " reply to the South , commiserating with him in declining to advise him , or to encourage him along the American line , or to urge him to undertake an all-out campaign against Mossadeq . |
| 6 | If you are at all normal , you bypass the urge to throttle him , or to shake him by the head and shout : ‘ What 's that got to do with anything ? ’ , and find yourself nodding in agreement as if he has just proved something . |
| 7 | In the corner of another carriage there sits , his face screened by a magazine , some lonely soul who has no one to bid him adieu at this end of his journey or welcome him at the other . |
| 8 | If you decide at the end of the day the thing to do is to pick up this kid and run like hell for somewhere you can gain , wave for help , or put him in the car and drive like mad to the hospital , then you might just do that , even though it breaks all the golden rules of first aid |
| 9 | We had n't heard or seen him for a while so my father suggested I go round and check I 'm really horrified . |
| 10 | What the charity groups think of him is hardly going to make or break him in the operatic world . ’ |
| 11 | or tramps him off the kerb and into shit . |
| 12 | While the child is in care no-one may cause him to be known by a new surname or remove him from the United Kingdom without either the written consent of every person who has parental responsibility or the leave of the court ( s33(7) ) . |
| 13 | She would n't help him ; he was weak and unsteady , but she would n't take his arm or guide him to the bed . |
| 14 | The man heard or sensed him at the last moment and turned with his hands coming up to a fighting stance but Maxim feinted through them and hit him low in the stomach . |
| 15 | Two women seemed anxious to provide Tate with an alibi , or to use him as an alibi for themselves . |
| 16 | Or delivered him to a house in that vicinity ? |
| 17 | The final goal of all the Waldens , Dimblebys , and Days is to hit the headlines on the news broadcasts ( or in the next day 's papers ) by tripping up their interviewee or extorting an apology from him , or convicting him of a contradiction . |
| 18 | Zacchaeus became reconciled to God because Jesus , instead of ignoring him or treating him like an outcast , had deliberately gone out of his way to meet and befriend him . |
| 19 | Again , if a dog-owner deliberately sets his dog on a peaceable citizen he is guilty of assault and battery in the ordinary way just as if he had flung a stone or hit him with a cudgel . |
| 20 | Yeltsin had said at a press conference after the Alma Ata meeting that " we do not want to follow the tradition which has taken shape since 1917 of burying each [ former ] head and leader of the state and subsequently reburying him or regarding him as a criminal " . |
| 21 | Rain had to choose whether to let him pass or lead him into the house and try to steer him away from the kitchen . |
| 22 | Each combatant aims to floor his opponent , by knocking him off his feet or biting him behind the elbow . |
| 23 | Moreover , Corbett realised that if de Craon knew he was asking questions it was only a matter of time before the Council of Guardians intervened and either put a stop to his activities or expelled him from the country . |
| 24 | He would quite willingly lay aside his own business in order to take Hayward to a party , or wheel him in a park . |
| 25 | Assaulting a constable , or obstructing or resisting him in the execution of his duty are all specific statutory offences . |
| 26 | For example , in 1983 it was said that ‘ even where the husband had been violent , it would be reasonable for the wife to continue to reside in the matrimonial home but to seek a court order restraining his violence or barring him from the home ’ and in these circumstances the authority 's duty would be ‘ to advise the applicant so to do , not to accommodate her as a homeless person ’ . |
| 27 | He could not obtain compensation from the person who had caused the accident and sued his employer for failing to provide insurance or advising him of the need to take out insurance . |
| 28 | He added : ‘ I never struck him with my fists or kicked him in the face when I was in a standing position . ’ |
| 29 | I then saw the other soldier standing behind him — either going to hit , or hitting him with a rifle on the leg , ’ he told the court . |
| 30 | They think he is a PERFUME … while others suspect they 've seen clothes he designed , or clocked him behind the wheel of a racing car . |