Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb past] him [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ That Finn , Mauno Sarin , you asked me to handle when he arrived here , said Ed had been garrotted before someone threw him into the harbour , ’ Carver commented .
2 The friar turned as someone tapped him on the shoulder .
3 He gave me a self-conscious grin and then yelped as someone thumped him in the back .
4 Someone bashed him on the back of the head with a heavy smooth object .
5 At Birkdale in 1976 for instance , somebody asked him in the press tent if he was worried about playing with Johnny Miller ( the eventual champion ) .
6 I 'll tell you this too , and this is for nothing , somebody dumped that boy right in the shit , somebody dropped him in the shit from a great old height .
7 As a former winner at Dornoch ( 1985 ) , where nobody took him beyond the 16th green , Garth has the right credentials for a marathon week 's work — sound legs and wind , a good nerve , great concentration , and all the shots for a course that will test the strong and mock the timid .
8 Nobody knew him among the caddies except me .
9 ‘ We also want to know exactly how Garland spent his time from Saturday afternoon when his father died to last night when somebody shot him on the wharf .
10 Somebody shot him by the scaffolding behind Benson 's just after ten last night . ’
11 While I was away , somebody shot him in the neck .
12 No-one heard him above the shouts and screams .
13 But , before he was able to put a name to it , something hit him on the back of the head , and for a long time he knew no more .
14 In Bath last Wednesday , one hit him on the back of the neck and a woman was arrested .
15 He was about to move on when something tapped him on the shoulder .
16 He 's had to be kept apart from the hamsters ever since one bit him on the nose .
17 At one stage , one seized him by the neck and nearly chocked him .
18 ‘ He behaved very much like the character he was playing , and everybody treated him like the character , the young kid , ’ recalled Chuck Julian , an actor in the film who has since become a theatrical agent .
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