Example sentences of "[vb pp] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An interesting example is the Count of Nordland who is the Prince of Marienburg from which the ruling Burgomeisters have forbidden him to return upon pain of death , Marienburg having seceded from the Empire . |
| 2 | The workmen had offered him ear plugs but his commanding officer had forbidden him to wear them . |
| 3 | The doctor has forbidden him to put any weight on it . ’ |
| 4 | He waved at Lee to go away , but Lee climbed from the fence on to the garage roof , something Philip 's Dad had forbidden him to do . |
| 5 | But what if his parents had forbidden him to pray and read his Bible ? |
| 6 | The very reason she had always forbidden him to bring a refrigerator into the house was this fear that , because she was old and no longer so quick of eye and nimble of hand and foot , it might defeat her . |
| 7 | Sadly he rejected this dual instruction and was lost on a low-level marking attack that , had Cochrane been aware that Gibson was not checked out at Warboys , his AOC would have forbidden him to fly that night . |
| 8 | as if someone else had strictly forbidden him to speak . |
| 9 | Sandy had been redecorating the place , had forbidden him to enter . |
| 10 | And then Ida 's rung to say that er our buyers have just rung him to say they 've a , got the cash , agreed and its all sorted out . |
| 11 | This was the second attempt to install the liberal Komissarov in the post : in January Moscow city soviet had nominated him to replace the hardliner Pyotr Bogdanov , but the USSR Interior Ministry had rejected the nomination on the grounds that it had not been consulted , and had ordered Bogdanov to remain in the post . |
| 12 | I had recommended him to say he was considering his position and no more . |
| 13 | Everything in Anselm 's life during the past thirty years had predisposed him to regard obedience as a fundamental rule of conduct for himself and others . |
| 14 | His body was still warm when it was discovered by police after his farm manager had reported him missing . |
| 15 | ‘ Have his parents reported him missing ? ’ asked Gus . |
| 16 | He wished that one of the journalists who 'd interviewed him had expressed the substance of his life and work in such up-market , romantic terms . |
| 17 | Souness said that the Zimbabwean had not approached him to discuss his future despite public grumblings from him that his future lay away from the club . |
| 18 | I should have reminded him to ring Mum . ’ |
| 19 | His support for Iraq has won him backing from all quarters , from western-educated intellectuals to Muslim Brothers . |
| 20 | The new prime minister , a businessman , is not so constrained ; and his moves have won him plaudits from his private-sector friends . |
| 21 | His reputation as a hard man — he had picked up a conviction for GBH — had won him work on the bouncer circuit and the title ‘ King of the Bouncers ’ . |
| 22 | At first she had let him wash their three-month-old child but Fred 's face had become red and perspiration stood out on his forehead as he held the mite as though she were made of china . |
| 23 | He must , for had n't she let him make love to her after just a handful of meetings , when they hardly knew each other ? |
| 24 | This soldier had let him load his pistol and point it empty . |
| 25 | I 've let him go pending further enquiries — he set his solicitor on me . |
| 26 | ‘ You should n't have let him go off by himself ! |
| 27 | If I had let him go to hospital the cost to the country would have been about £500 a week . |
| 28 | They had n't let him go home for nearly a week ; there was no way he could have coped with his freedom or his family . |
| 29 | ‘ I know we should n't have let him go , but I did n't feel we know him well enough to tell him he was too drunk to drive . ’ |
| 30 | Sara wished she had not been so petty when Fairfax had called , and had let him go on thinking it was Matthew 's old family house . |