Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] he [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says she did want him out of the house , but she did n't want to kill him as a court was going to evict him anyway . |
| 2 | At the age of sixteen , this writer had slept with an older , married friend of her Father ; she had arranged to meet him in a churchyard after dinner and they made love on a tombstone . |
| 3 | She tried phoning him with a variety of invitations she felt he would n't refuse , but he always made excuses for not meeting her . |
| 4 | He led them into the kitchen , chatting to Blanche and Dexter as if they were house guests rather than police officers who had come to interview him about a murder . |
| 5 | Since someone tried to kill him with a parcel bomb back in Lusaka , he 's moved several times and today still goes in fear of his life . |
| 6 | It proposed bringing him before a tribunal of officers . |
| 7 | Deuce , a pimp , has added him to a clutch of boys he is taking to a hotel . |
| 8 | His General Practitioner was notified by telephone of his impending discharge and promised to visit him within a couple of days . |
| 9 | ‘ His addiction has turned him into a cheat and a liar ’ |
| 10 | He felt hammer blows to his arm before Dean tried to stab him with a screwdriver . |
| 11 | He felt hammer blows to his arm before Dean tried to stab him with a screwdriver . |
| 12 | One research scientist , a friend of mine said that the setting up of a particularly apt experiment has lead him to a sense of the beautiful . |
| 13 | Mr Grainger , who believes that the association could be the first of its kind in the country , has contacted the American Brain Tumour Association which has provided him with a wealth of information . |
| 14 | Mr Grainger , who believes that the association could be the first of its kind in the country , has contacted the American Brain Tumour Association which has provided him with a wealth of information . |
| 15 | ‘ Francis has remembered him in a codicil to his Will drawn up in Nassau . |
| 16 | Shelford was in Wales last October to watch Neath beat Toulouse , a result which has led him to a conclusion similar to Wyllie 's : ‘ From the performance Neath put on that night , Welsh rugby is in pretty healthy hands . ’ |
| 17 | The law of Docherty 's life has taken him on a rollercoaster through football management . |
| 18 | Just turned forty , Frank is married to his job , his wife has left him for a colleague , and when he encounters the sexually predatory Helen ( Ellen Barkin ) he breaks one of the first rules in the book by falling for a suspect . |
| 19 | Lord Dundas was fully aware of Glassford 's importance to his political interest in Clackmannan , and had taken steps to try to oblige him in a matter relating to his West Indian business interests , but Glassford was also conscious of his position in the political sphere , and fully intended to use it to secure his brother-in-law 's reinstatement . |
| 20 | With that deceptively loose-limbed walk , he ambled towards her , and Hilary tried to picture him as a property developer and failed . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd heard him for a bit by then . |
| 22 | It is said that a deputation of quarrymen came to see him with a view to getting a trade union recognised . |
| 23 | ‘ We would expect to see him in a couple of warm-up fights , certainly someone in the top 10 , before he fights Mike Tyson again , if that is to happen , ’ said Morris . |
| 24 | ‘ They seemed to accept him as a father figure . ’ |
| 25 | Nineteen year old Joseph from South London said he 'd been acting in self defence , and he was cleared of murdering Bob who 'd challenging him with a hammer when he found him slashing car tyres . |
| 26 | After four years in the explosives division , his management potential had been spotted and moves were made to launch him on a management development programme of rotation to broaden his experience . |
| 27 | Another of his treasures , the seventh volume of Gaud Maybellome 's Encyclopaedia of Heavenly Signs , originally written in the language of Third Dominion academics but widely translated for the delectation of the proletariat , he 'd bought from a woman in the city of Jassick , who 'd approached him in a gaming room where he was attempting to explain cricket to a group of the locals , and said she recognized him from stories her husband ( who was in the Autarch 's army in Yzordderrex ) had told . |
| 28 | But he made little effort to develop this outside his own definitions of the genealogical method , while his shift into the problematics of power seemed to lead him into a labyrinth from which it was virtually impossible to extract himself . |
| 29 | The name seemed to halt him for a moment , but when his hands were again moving over her , the scream she let out crying , ‘ Mother ! |
| 30 | A SUPERMARKET assistant recognised a man who tried to pay for goods with a stolen credit card — because she 'd seen him as a strippergram . |