Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] he [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , after a lively meeting with directors , Reg was persuaded to carry on as coach by three men in a hearse who asked to meet him outside during a beer break . |
| 2 | And , no doubt , if ever John Hall discovers the identity of the anonymous benefactor who spilt the beans , he will want to shake him warmly by the hand and offer him thanks on behalf of his club and the good of all in English rugby . |
| 3 | She tried to see him dispassionately as a grey-haired solicitor rather too well endowed with easy charm ; indeed , she saw him thus , but she also saw him otherwise , and could not help herself . |
| 4 | Either the man she is with is not ready for a long-term commitment , he may be violent and she wants to keep him away from the child . |
| 5 | I have worked for him for more than three years and have come to admire him both as a doctor and a man . |
| 6 | He wondered if they had come to take him away to a Home for ungrateful and unwanted children . |
| 7 | His petty-bourgeois family background , his status as an intellectual conversant with the rites of bourgeois education , values and culture , his sophisticated literary and critical talents as a writer , all conspired to set him apart from the communist party leadership and rank and file members alike . |
| 8 | He conceded that it was hard on Alexander , and later came to respect him greatly for the way in which he gave Worrell his fullest support as vice-captain . |
| 9 | He handed over to poor Sir Alec Douglas-Home a party legacy of dwindling popularity , and although that amiable and resolute character fought with vigour and gallantry to maintain his position , the tide had sufficiently turned to abandon him gently on the beach , leaving Harold Wilson afloat in waters so shallow that the most gentle paddle hit the sand . |
| 10 | It is possible that he contributed to early issues of the newsbook , but there is no evidence that he was responsible for editing it , and nothing in his future career or conduct to link him directly with the Levellers . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , do n't be ridiculous , Giles , calm down , calm down , come and have a nice Perrier water , ’ said Liz , taking his other arm , and , with Kate , attempting to lead him away from the fracas , as one would a child in a playground from its tormentor ( for Giles 's antagonist Paul Hargreaves , pale faced , dark suited , silver-grey tied , was smiling calmly with a horrible amusement at this distressing scene ) : but the desperate Giles was beyond leading , and fell back heavily as he attempted to disengage himself from his two intercessors , crashing into a large fern and some pots of bulbs and sending earth and splashes of champagne over the carpet . |
| 12 | Fully expecting to see him either in the saloon , or in the galley , she was surprised to find both empty . |
| 13 | Trainer Nigel Twiston-Davies had intended to send him straight to the Cheltenham Festival , but the lure of the £25,000-added Cavalier Chase has proved too tempting . |
| 14 | he played once more before the Lord 's show-piece and was called six times for throwing in the Hampshire match , but the selectors decided to risk him again in the second Test , where he was to meet his fate at the most famous ground in cricket . |
| 15 | And though you might not intend to sell him again at the moment , circumstances can change : a horse with a stable vice is always harder to sell than one without , unless he is so fantastically talented that his behaviour can be ignored . |
| 16 | Once when he was at school camp , Shanti and I went to fetch him home at the end of the camp weekend . |
| 17 | Rain had to choose whether to let him pass or lead him into the house and try to steer him away from the kitchen . |
| 18 | If he loses he still wo n't quit but the FA could be forced to throw him overboard in a latter-day Boston tea party . |
| 19 | Her husband became an alcoholic and they had to put him away in a clinic . ’ |
| 20 | My master , of course , ambled along like a child and I had to keep him away from the rufflers , those former soldiers looking for easy pickings , the mad Abraham men who danced naked pretending to be insane , the cappers who begged for money and attached horse-locks to the outstretched arms of people stupid enough to give it . |
| 21 | Had to take him home in a taxi and we had to book out for him . |
| 22 | He wanted to hit him all over the face with his fists , to smash away his stupid smile , to stop him talking . |
| 23 | He wanted to smash William 's teeth in , he wanted to kick him all round the airfield . |
| 24 | It was one which she had been longing to ask him ever since the night on which he had come home so late , just before she had turned off all the gas-lamps . |