Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] he [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William Barr , the trainer , departed with him and the new secretary-manager got John Chaplin , his former trainer at Leeds , to come from Bristol Rovers . |
| 2 | And then she knelt over him and the round childish face with its bush of bright hair shut out the sky . |
| 3 | It occurred to him that the small squares and staggered alleys might have a practical as well as an aesthetic function . |
| 4 | Stephen drove south by the main road and as he came through Goughdale it occurred to him that the yellow Volkswagen might still be there . |
| 5 | Mabbott 's reputation as a Leveller , which rests solely on the association which has been made between him and the radical newsbook , the Moderate , has been called into question . |
| 6 | A bus was passing between him and the parked vehicle , and he hesitated … |
| 7 | I thought about how I 'd walked around all those weeks and what I 'd felt about him and the crazy things I had found myself believing . |
| 8 | Spencer was only caught after his victim went scouring the streets of the city looking for him and the other attackers . |
| 9 | Many aspects of the post-conciliar debate seemed simply , and not surprisingly , to have passed him by — they seemed to him but the fashionable irrelevancies of a West that had had it rather too good , yet dangerous temptations too . |
| 10 | It seemed to him that the essential Eileen had already receded from her eyes . |
| 11 | It detected the twin heartbeats around him and the mingled sigh of breath . |
| 12 | The victims are people who stand between him and the desired goal , usually some form of power , and who must be set aside , disbarred , or killed . |
| 13 | The sweat was pouring from him when the ultimate moment arrived . |
| 14 | I 'll never know what happened to him because the bottom part of the paper was missing — and I wonder whether his friend recovered . |
| 15 | She was willing to be used by him and the outrageous request received the obedient , ‘ Let it be to me according to your word ’ ( Luke 1.38 ) . |
| 16 | His doubted claims to have been the greatest mountaineer of his generation have foundation in fact , despite the hostility which existed between him and the English Alpine Club . |
| 17 | Swindon and , by extension , the Jefferies country around Coate won a permanent place in Thomas 's life because of the indissoluble friendship that developed between him and the old man called ‘ Dad ’ Uzzell . |
| 18 | ‘ Midnight , if that 's th'name , the Cap'n says th'must attend to him and the other guests in the drawing-room . |
| 19 | In general , however , the contract of a mentally disordered person is fully binding on him unless the other party was aware that he was so insane as not to understand the nature of the transaction . |
| 20 | I held him with one arm and the other lay between him and the small bump that was the baby . |
| 21 | Nothing now , it seemed , could stand between him and the Huge Reward . |
| 22 | At a further conference , however , on 5 April 1990 , the court ruled against him because the original subpoenas , and the government 's motion to quash , were still outstanding . |
| 23 | PRESIDENT Boris Yeltsin yesterday seized control of the Russian media to stop it falling under the control of hardliners opposed to him as the constitutional crisis deepened . |
| 24 | ‘ I suppose , ' ’ Rab said , but he hardly felt the better ; not , with hobo drinkers , they looked at him and the tattooed barman called him Stick . |
| 25 | I agree with him that the practical objections to taking this course are not sufficient to prevent this House from establishing the law in accordance with both principle and justice . |
| 26 | Now there was nothing left to him but the conflicting passions of his terror and his furious pride , knotted together in inextricable warfare in his bowels . |
| 27 | It was n't long after the conversation about the Ivor Novello Award that he became much more resolved that he did n't need Ken Pitt as manager , so I said to him that the only thing he could do in that case was to get an attorney who would break the contract . |
| 28 | In his younger days his acquaintance with the anarchist Prince Peter Kropotkin had suggested to him that the fundamental principles of social order ( for Radcliffe-Brown , the ‘ structure ’ and ‘ function ’ of social institutions ) might best be discerned in simple self-regulating communities without formalized governmental authority . |