Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So this afternoon I had him on the settee |
| 2 | Perhaps it was just the times I saw him in the Div II Championship year and the season after that . |
| 3 | He had reached six when he played at a ball down the leg side which hit him on the thigh , with the bat some inches away , and was taken by Dujon . |
| 4 | A vast impenetrable openness which froze him to the spot where he was as if he was caught in ice . |
| 5 | BIG Dave Beasant hit back at the Chelsea fans who booed him off the pitch and blasted : ‘ You 're out of order . ’ |
| 6 | Honest enquirers , like the lawyer who asked him about the greatest commandment , were impressed and attracted by his Bible-based teaching ( though , as with the rich young ruler , they did not all respond to it positively ) . |
| 7 | . Thought better by Jewry itself to withdraw him from the public gaze . |
| 8 | Reid 's star began to rise with a vengeance last year when he became associated with the stable of Peter Chapple-Hyam who provided him with the horse every jockey wants to have — a Derby winner . |
| 9 | Bond is still despised by Burnley supporters who blame him for the club 's demise after his season in charge eight years ago . |
| 10 | Taskopruzade 's grandfather , for example , studied under Molla Yegan , probably at some time alter 839/1435–6 , and it was Molla Yegan who recommended him for the post at Taskopru . |
| 11 | But Durie still feels uncomfortable at the club who backed him to the hilt in wiping out the damaging ‘ cheat ’ slur . |
| 12 | They then wrapped it in linen and concealed it about their person : to jade a horse they touched him in the pit of the shoulder with the frog 's bone : to release the horse they touched him on the rump . |
| 13 | They then wrapped it in linen and concealed it about their person : to jade a horse they touched him in the pit of the shoulder with the frog 's bone : to release the horse they touched him on the rump . |
| 14 | They bound the restaurant owner , who moaned feebly and thrashed about a bit ; then with Lambert 's aid they hoisted him to the high seat . |
| 15 | In the spring he took him to the house in Normandy . |
| 16 | Mr. Russell lost out when he received a 6p rise which put him above the income support level . |
| 17 | One of the best known names in football has been teaching a group of schoolchildren some of the skills which took him to the top of the game . |
| 18 | He walked back by a different route which took him along the waterfront . |
| 19 | It was an experience which steeled him for the future task of having as many as a dozen major country houses under construction in any one year . |
| 20 | The famous trip to Europe , which Lear had constantly referred to in his letters as if it were an experience which united him with the great ornithologist , became the bitter disappointment of a friendship manqué . |
| 21 | Plainly Henry Ward Beecher , the great New York preacher of puritanism , should either have avoided having tumultuous extra-marital love-affairs or chosen a career which did not require him to be quite such a prominent advocate of sexual restraint ; though one can not entirely fail to sympathise with the bad luck which linked him in the mid-1870s with the beautiful feminist and advocate of free love , Victoria Woodhull , a lady whose convictions made privacy difficult . |
| 22 | Outside in the corridor I grabbed him by the elbow . |
| 23 | Mark turned , just as the dogs took off together in a huge leap which struck him in the chest , knocking him backwards into the boot where he sat , legs dangling , with both arms wrapped around the excited dogs . |
| 24 | He had been to Sweden in 1911 and Norway in 1913 , experiences which encouraged him in the use of a looser technique and a thicker impasto . |
| 25 | As he walked down the stairs it was the old lady who met him in the hall . |
| 26 | Out in the dark cold hall she stopped him at the foot of the stairs . |
| 27 | Then , with a girl who loved him on the seat of his bike , he came to a bridge he was never to cross . |
| 28 | With cords and pitons they anchored him to the rock . |
| 29 | Without hesitation she kicked him under the chin , the full weight of the kick throwing him flat on the floor . |
| 30 | One day , however , walking by the seashore he met an elderly Christian who told him about the Hebrew prophets , undermined his naïve confidence in the moral guidance of philosophers , and converted him to Christianity . |