Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] he [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Democratic leadership in Congress has pushed him hard on the issue . |
| 2 | Romany King has done nothing this year but the fact that he ran so well last time at Aintree has kept him short in the market . |
| 3 | ‘ I had known David for quite a long time ; we come from Cambridge and I knew him vaguely in the early days — I remember when he joined the Floyd in fact — and I 'd seen him socially over the years . |
| 4 | It was only that now , having finally admitted that she loved him , that she 'd loved him almost from the moment they 'd met , she was able to admit that it was those very same qualities that made him the man he was . |
| 5 | His weakness for girls from an escort agency run by an old friend of Jack 's had cost him dear over the years . |
| 6 | This and his link with Stevenson 's had served him well over the last few years , and he had become something of an expert in railway funding , especially in European railways . |
| 7 | ‘ You 'd have heard him all over the shop , ’ he said , ‘ and he came off the phone complaining that he 'd just lost 40,000 . |
| 8 | She would have known him anywhere by the very set of his head , the mere shape of him , even so cramped and disabled . |
| 9 | Her family had tried to stop the marriage , but she would have followed him anywhere in the world . |
| 10 | Instead of walking him round the beat , he should have taken him straight to the police station . |
| 11 | Starkisser had to have cost him close to a hundred thousand US dollars , and the Lucaya penthouse apartment , with its private docks and its view towards Silver Point Beach , probably cost ten times as much . |
| 12 | His intellectual and emotional itinerary between 1924 and 1927 is the record of a deepening crisis brought on by a growing realisation of the political and social dimension of his current lifestyle , an awareness that his pursuit of academic excellence and success had implicated him personally in a way of life that contradicted , subverted and emasculated the values and beliefs of his own social origins . |
| 13 | Roman 's early experience had altered him irrevocably from a loving young man to a hard cynic who would never let any other woman near enough to win his love and trust . |
| 14 | Jacques Devraux had not troubled to make him known to the senator , but while his father made a final check of the baggage truck , Paul Devraux had patted him affectionately on the shoulder and introduced him to them as " the great all-purpose Annamese genie Ngo Van Loc , who 's houseboy , camp boy , chauffeur and indispensable general assistant to the humble Devraux family . " |
| 15 | The strip had carried him right to the end of the branch . |
| 16 | He had seen him only in the dense fog . |
| 17 | Rosie had bitten him twice in the past ; once when she managed to free herself by chewing through her tethering-rope , and once when she leaped through the window of Buddie 's jeep and chased him into the pig-yard . |
| 18 | He had met the Shah year before and the Shah had lectured him imperiously on the need for law and order in affairs of state . |
| 19 | He remembered what Foley had told him once about the Carlton Club . |
| 20 | We 've have him , we 've had him ever since the beginning of term ! |
| 21 | Was there a part of his career that had helped him most in the development of My Kinda Town ? |
| 22 | They had tidied him away into the cupboard where nobody would see him . |
| 23 | It was important not to remember how Nuadu had looked in those last moments , defiant and unafraid , his head thrown back as the Robemaker had dragged him forward by the vicious crimson rope-lights . |
| 24 | One night ( this was in the second week after he had arrived , and about nine or ten weeks before The Romance really began ) the man who had driven him away from the Bar had done so in a big , warm , expensive , deep-seated car . |
| 25 | A man calling himself John Haydon had lured him there with a request for advice on pensions . |
| 26 | His Canadian passport was beautifully forged and had brought him effortlessly into the Republic of Ireland and thence on the ferry to England . |
| 27 | He should have been at boarding school , but his mother , who loved him very much , had brought him home for a month or two , because she thought his health was delicate . |
| 28 | By the time that Lothar arrived in Paris , probably in the 1180s , perhaps earlier , the theology taught there was no longer the speculative , probing theology of Peter Abelard ( which was perhaps the reputation that had brought him there in the first place ) , but had become more concerned with practical issues and doctrine . |
| 29 | At his first rehearsal of Peter Pan , almost before Bunny had finished introducing him to the rest of the cast , Dotty had taken him proprietorially by the arm and strolled him into the wings . |
| 30 | He had been met by the Defence Ministry people , who had taken him directly from the aircraft steps , but no one had said a word on the way into the city . |