Example sentences of "a [noun] [pron] [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One , apprenticed to a shoe maker , recalled not a cruel master but a mistress who turned him into a household drudge . |
| 2 | Chased by the youths , he ran across a dual carriageway and flagged down a driver who rushed him to hospital . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In addition to being a hunchback the painter Toulouse-Lautrec suffered from a condition which endowed him with an oversized penis . |
| 5 | Certainly , the law will not imply a term which prevents him from doing so . |
| 6 | In Routh v Jones [ 1947 ] 1 All ER 758 the Court of Appeal held that a restraint on a medical assistant to a partnership which prevented him from practising " in any department of medicine , surgery or midwifery ( or accepting ) any professional appointment " was unreasonable because it covered , inter alia , practice as a consultant or medical officer of health . |
| 7 | The winner on the day was Francois Lombard — a result which took him to third place overall in the championships . |
| 8 | Then , with a girl who loved him on the seat of his bike , he came to a bridge he was never to cross . |
| 9 | Ironically , Gough 's rash challenge on Ferguson at Tannadice resulted in a booking which carries him over the disciplinary points threshold and costs Rangers the services of their captain when they visit Arbroath for the Scottish Cup , quarter-final tie on 6 March . |
| 10 | ARMY veteran Tom Clarkson had a special date yesterday with part of a bomb which hit him in the head during World War Two . |
| 11 | For a moment she held him like a baby in her arms . |
| 12 | The French master chef , dressed in his long bespattered apron , stood by his post chopping , slicing , stirring and mixing with a vigour which drenched him in sweat whilst he swore at his apprentices for this or that . |
| 13 | No I do n't , no that was just a nickname they give him for years ago , matter of fact I the other day , I was walking up and he called me , so I took me father 's name you see , nickname , that was . |
| 14 | A Malaysian was jailed for five years for biting off the finger of a policeman who stopped him from stealing a motorcycle . |
| 15 | Couples , the US Player of the Year and defending a title which inspired him to glory at Augusta last April , regained his compsure to cover the last seven holes in one under par . |
| 16 | This is a role which provided him with a great deal of satisfaction . |
| 17 | ‘ He was the original tall , dark , handsome boy at school , ’ said a woman who knew him at his senior school . |
| 18 | ‘ I simply meant that if Silas finds himself in love with a woman who loves him in return , he must make her his own . |
| 19 | On his way through the underground roads , he met a miner who told him of having seen heavy machinery being moved along by an unknown force . |
| 20 | Handing him a cigarette I left him with a final warning . |
| 21 | This carefully documented book makes known for the first time a major work executed by Bakst at the end of his life : his seven scenes from the ‘ The Sleeping Beauty ’ , a tale which fascinated him throughout his career . |
| 22 | There was a quiet wistfulness about her , a reticence , a grace which reminded him of one of Leonardo 's Madonnas . |
| 23 | But perhaps you do n't remember how he hated that life , and what a state it got him into . |
| 24 | He put himself into the hands of a psychiatrist who passed him to another psychiatrist , Leonard Browne . |
| 25 | SIMON McCRACKEN , a 21-year-old fullback , has made the jump from fourth division Blackwood to first division Newport in a style which stamps him as a player to watch . |
| 26 | Blessed with a constituency which returned him unopposed throughout his career in the Commons , and a tenantry which presented him at his wedding with a two-foot high gold cup , it was natural that he should suppose the keystone of the political arch to be a benevolent aristocracy . |
| 27 | It 's about a witch who chased him on his mare . |
| 28 | Without a word she followed him into his office . |
| 29 | She 's spent 6 years researching his life and she 's now written a book which describes him as a talented , but essentially ordinary man . |
| 30 | Unfortunately he suffered damage to a knee which left him with a permanent slight limp . |