Example sentences of "it [vb past] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it got him in the end . |
| 2 | Here is a passage of Thoreau which both demonstrates the creative process and also shows that it led him to the peak experience which he termed being charmed . |
| 3 | It oppressed him like the static heat of the big sun — the lion sun — when nothing stirs . |
| 4 | Yanto Gates broke through the blackthorn hedge which separated the Severn bank from the adjacent Berkeley to Gloucester canal towpath , and surveyed the scene before him He loved this river , but tonight , bathed in this unusually bright moonlight , it moved him to the point of goose pimples . |
| 5 | The spirit came upon Jesus at the baptism , upon a man , upon a man and it came upon him It raised him from the dead . |
| 6 | The only advantage of illness , as far as Eliot was concerned , was that it released him from the general round of works and days — it was , he used to say , his body 's way of telling him to stop — and during periods of ill health such as this one he seemed better able to write . |
| 7 | It puzzled him into the New Year of 1961 that no one asked his opinion . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , a wide variety of courts administered a wide variety of laws all over western Europe ; and if one asked a man in any part of Europe to whose law he was subject , he might well have answered ‘ to my law ’ — for law was a personal thing , which a man might carry about with him ; it bound him to the courts to which his ancestors had been subject , to the laws of those courts , and gave him the privileges which those courts provided . |
| 9 | Eating quail 's eggs , he frowned as he reread the letter from Lloyd 's : it warned him of the amount that he would shortly be expected to produce in settlement . |
| 10 | His pot was in his hand still , it preceded him like the torch of justice . |
| 11 | It guided him to the stairs , which were straight ahead . |
| 12 | Luckily , it hit him on the head . |
| 13 | It hit him in the chest . |
| 14 | There was a difference of opinion what happened next — she thought it went in from there , I was convinced it hit him in the head and went in . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I do n't think the Labour 'd know a free vote if it bit him on the leg . |
| 17 | He turned instinctively against the wind , or nearly , for that way was easiest to control and fortunately it took him towards the greatest darkness . |
| 18 | Most important of all , it put him beyond the law . |
| 19 | It put him in the forefront at the Department . |
| 20 | This marriage was advantageous to him in that it introduced him into the local society but it was to last only three years , for in 1573 Jane died of smallpox at the age of 20 . |
| 21 | It introduced him to the human race . |
| 22 | It introduced him to the bizarre situation that Churches treated each other worse than they treated anyone else ; and to the recognition that the reason for this was not religious but racial . |
| 23 | It reminded him of the big shots in the trade union movement having sandwiches at Number 10 all those years ago . |
| 24 | It reminded him of the zombies he had seen in the horror film at the Empire . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It reminded him of the vigorousness of Army life . |
| 27 | Though he was later subtly dismissive of the assembly , he undoubtedly appreciated its value at the time , not least for the good publicity it gave him in the British and American press . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | With painful slowness it carried him to the station a few miles from his home . |