Example sentences of "[verb] he [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would have liked to order him from the kingdom , send him trussed across the border with a curt note to his arrogant king . |
| 2 | Er , I mean , we have met him , once or twice , but that 's as much as I can say , and it 's been er su such a span of time , that I do n't even know now , whether I would recognise him walking along the street . |
| 3 | Happily , my finally getting to meet him coincides with the release of one of Morrissey 's great records ( they seem to alternate quite evenly with duff ones ) , so there 's no awkward rub between the fan 's loyalty and the critic 's ‘ responsibility ’ to the ‘ truth ’ . |
| 4 | he continued to teach at Chelsea School of Art , and has also taught at the Royal Academy Schools since 1975 when Peter Greenham invited him to teach in the Life Room . |
| 5 | Friends invited him to apply for the Readership in Geometry at Gresham 's College , and a wealthy London merchant offered him £10,000 to take his daughter in marriage . |
| 6 | He invited him to come into the cottage out of the wet . |
| 7 | But if I was going to have to disillusion the boy , I thought it kinder to do it personally than by letter , and I invited him to come to the studios to see the programme and have a drink . |
| 8 | And he invited him to come to the Mayday parade to see for himself . |
| 9 | ‘ They went out looking for him and reported him missing to the police at 3.30am . |
| 10 | Keen mountaineer Thomas Hargreaves , 39 , left to go on a day 's hiking in an area frequented by grizzly bears last Thursday , but friends only reported him missing at the weekend . |
| 11 | I urge him to go to the railway stations each weekend and to get the newspapers that are handed out free of charge . |
| 12 | He had to report to the headmaster at four o'clock , and was taken there by force by Foggerty who caught him racing for the school gates when the bell went . |
| 13 | Paul looks better , I seen him rushing down the road at great speed to catch the train , not looking as white as he was a few months ago . |
| 14 | Terry Terry we 've been keeping him waiting on the line a long time good morning Terry . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | Many expect him to emerge from the rubble as the undisputed leader of the French greens . |
| 17 | They found him slumped against the steering wheel |
| 18 | We found him huddled on the floor of a makeshift hospital in Bardera . |
| 19 | In the morning Tom found him huddled under the bed . |
| 20 | The workhouse master was called to Connolly 's cell and found him lying on the floor . |
| 21 | Christine called out to him and found him crying with the bottle of poisonous carbolic acid still in his hands . |
| 22 | I came down when she called me and found him standing in the living-room with a look of distaste on his face as he looked round at the overflowing ash trays , the dirty grate , the pile of chair cushions tumbled in the middle of the floor . |
| 23 | There was one terrible day when she came into his surgery and found him sitting beside the gramophone playing Soldiers of the Queen with tears pouring down his face . |
| 24 | I found him sitting on the bench to the side of the house gazing out over Backyards . |
| 25 | He was that one , of course , and the night found him sitting in the back of a purring car being driven around the frosty streets of London in search of somebody to help him finish the story . |
| 26 | The MPs , leaders of Britain 's cross-party peace group New Consensus , wrote to Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams challenging him to appeal to the IRA to halt its campaign of violence . |
| 27 | Many of his suggestions were taken up , including pushing back the 17th tee boxes and steeply bunkering the green so as to oblige the player to pitch his second ‘ enabling him to stay on the green ’ , already notoriously difficult to stay on once reached . |
| 28 | She had never even expected him to help with the dishes when she had fed him here . |
| 29 | It wants him to go beyond the landscaping of degraded industrial sites as a means of attracting new investment , to embrace the concept of ‘ sustainable development ’ which was backed by the UK government at the recent Earth Summit . |
| 30 | Isay helped him dress for the banquet that evening , showing no resentment at having to double as valet as well as bodyguard . |