Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when he asked for his toast , a sister told him he would have to eat rolls and jam or go without . |
| 2 | ‘ That guy 's going to need a submarine to scrape him off the bottom . ’ |
| 3 | Success as a pleader eluded him and , like many counsel in that position , Gloag became a law reporter . |
| 4 | In A Corner of Wheat the avaricious speculator is showing his friend through one of his elevators when he receives a cable telling him that he has cornered the world 's supply but then in his exultation he stumbles and ‘ falls to a terrible death in one of his own bins of wheat ’ . |
| 5 | After a very successful tour of West Indies , he took his second team off to Australia , but on the eve of the first Test he received a cable telling him that his widowed mother had died . |
| 6 | He always looked pleased when a case interested him . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , I 've decided to stay on a bit to settle him . ’ |
| 8 | A branch whipped him in the face . |
| 9 | A MOTORIST , who needed a stick to help him walk , left his car parked in a dangerous position at Alton High Street . |
| 10 | Just days after overturning a decision to deselect him , the Labour stalwart has now been rejected by his colleagues at the party 's county level . |
| 11 | A CLEVELAND fireman is appealing against a decision to transfer him from Thornaby fire station to his home town of Billingham . |
| 12 | It ends with her making a decision to kiss him or get out and swim . |
| 13 | The nine-year-old tearaway was arrested when a driver caught him trying to get into his car by sliding through the sunroof . |
| 14 | Whatever the origin of the revolt , by early 1183 it had been transformed into a struggle to make him Duke of Aquitaine in place of the " tyrannical " Richard . |
| 15 | That was the year the city 's deputy was found beaten to death , in a village near Riba ; the landlords had paid a gang to kill him , just as they did in the old days , before Davide left for America . |
| 16 | You pay a forfeit to put him in that race . |
| 17 | I say it 's a trick to persuade him to stay . |
| 18 | Claudia looked at him with resignation ; of course he had … he 'd never let a trick pass him by . |
| 19 | A head and a chest faced him , half-hidden . |
| 20 | Tomorrow is his Feast Day , but little is known about the life of this fourth-century divine ; he was renowned as a preacher and energetic founder of nunneries , and raised the funds to build the basilica in Verona where a statue depicts him holding a fishing-rod . |
| 21 | Rolle 's gifts as a writer enable him to convey the flavour of a variety of levels of religious awareness and all his English writings are worth exploring with this in mind . |
| 22 | I 'm not naive , I know others will make more be back with more bids because he 's such a top -class goal scorer , ’ says the manager , who has just signed a contract keeping him at Hillsborough for the same time as Hirst . |
| 23 | Polls had until recently shown support for Mr Patten but now a majority wants him to back down . |
| 24 | The pony really needs a vet to sort him out . |
| 25 | Get a vet to check him over to be sure . |
| 26 | Could there have been a fight causing him to fall and hit the back of his head on something ? |
| 27 | ALISTAIR Bell , whose wife was found murdered in a sports centre car park , won undisclosed libel damages in the High Court yesterday over a story linking him with her death . |
| 28 | The fact that nobody wrote and said that he was brilliant and was a genius convinced him that it was n't Robert Bolt who was at fault or the director Noel Willman , but himself as an actor . |
| 29 | Ormonde duly did so , but this time a storm drove him back to France , and he got into St Malo just as an English squadron arrived to blockade it . |
| 30 | In 1064 , Harold sailed from Bosham ; a storm cast him up in Normandy where he was apparently tricked into giving his oath on saints ' bones to pledge support for Duke William as the next king of England . |