Example sentences of "[verb] he [verb] [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this extract Roddy 's parents want him to take up a useful hobby : |
| 2 | Kendo then took the prey from Fitz , having let him tear out a large piece of the monkey 's intestines . |
| 3 | When she saw a test of it she was extremely pleased and told him to run off a few hundred yards . |
| 4 | ‘ We feel we should fight Mr Butters and let him take on a white elephant while we play elsewhere for a year and maybe we can return to Belle Vue . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I sometimes wonder what people must think to hear him haggling over a few dollars . |
| 6 | It would be placing too heavy a burden on an employer to require him to carry out a formal medical investigation and , even if he did , such an investigation would rarely be fruitful because of the transient nature of the employee 's symptoms and complaints . |
| 7 | As it happened he pulled up a shattered Kersil seven from home . |
| 8 | Now , £100 000 from the Department of Industry has enabled him to set up a full-time commercial unit to analyse samples sent from Europe as well as Britain . |
| 9 | Chaplin invited Mayer to land one on him , and L B promptly obliged by punching Chaplin in the face , sending him sprawling over a potted plant . |
| 10 | The improvements keep coming and have inspired him to draw up a four-point plan for Vets : |
| 11 | They thrust him stumbling up a winding stairway cut in the rock , and along another passage into a large , smoky room , blackened and bare but for certain engines and implements that stood against the walls , and a low brazier in the centre . |
| 12 | In the weeks that followed he built up a regular round of customers and boasted that it was better than going to work , especially on cold winter mornings . |
| 13 | She watched him draw out a hot dog , place it on a bun . |
| 14 | Even if I allow him to scribble down a few paragraphs of his own fiction ( and I do not see why I should ) it still follows that any words he might write must in the first instance be composed by me . |
| 15 | The prince had asked him to take over a small present ; Simon had stuck it in a pocket and thought no more about it , only when he saw Constanza he decided to deliver it in person . |
| 16 | She heard Ben come into the market-room , but when the kitchen door did not immediately open , she went over to it and saw him throwing off a wet sack that he had been wearing over his head and shoulders like a cape . |
| 17 | She saw him pick up a long strip of heavy material . |
| 18 | When he was certain they were not being followed he darted down a narrow , stinking court and knocked at a door . |
| 19 | But French officials were initially suspicious and the Soviet KGB security police forced him to turn down a French passport . |
| 20 | Seldom , indeed , had he drawn up a preliminary bibliography before his attention was distracted by some new or revived interest in something entirely different . |
| 21 | Venables , who freely admits he took on a huge financial burden for his 22 per cent stake , is alleged to want more say on the financial side , but Sugar prefers him to concentrate on coaching . |
| 22 | You said he turned up a few hours after the event , so it seems likely he left London at short notice . |
| 23 | However , before she herself was dismissed so that Dorothy could rest , her sister extracted a promise from her that she would set about finding out the boy 's address and , moreover , that Cynthia would contact her own solicitor and have him draw up a new will making Dorothy 's son her sole beneficiary . |
| 24 | And then , of course , the other five coins would help him set up a useful practice at some safe distance , say two hundred miles . |