Example sentences of "[verb] he [prep] the [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then bundle up your husband and boyfriend and send him to the woman whose name appears at the top of the list , you will receive 16,337 men — and one of them is bound to be a hell of a lot better than the one you already have . |
| 2 | Colin Webley ( 36 ) is another newcomer as far as playing is concerned , although many of you will know him as the chap who did sterling work in the tea hut last season . |
| 3 | The pope acknowledges Oswiu 's conversion to orthodoxy and the Roman Easter , thanks him for the gifts he has sent but grieves that the bearer of these gifts had died in Rome , and regrets that he has not been able at the time of writing to find someone suitable to send as Wigheard 's replacement . |
| 4 | The wide formal boulevards of Algiers , the plane-trees with their trunks painted white , the tall graceful white-painted houses with their balconies and shutters , the shade of the square reserved for Europeans : all these reminded him of the France he had loved so much as a child ; the towns of the South — Arles or Nîmes or Avignon , some of the small towns of the Loire . |
| 5 | You can introduce him as the guy you and I appointed some months back to work with Sanders on the preparation of the Business Plan . |
| 6 | ‘ He created him as the person who could do all the things that grown ups are not allowed to do . |
| 7 | For the first time I refused to provide him with the refuge he so obviously wanted and the uncritical comfort that he craved . |
| 8 | Curiously , Branson did not dislike McLaren — Malcolm 's transparently roguish charm made him hard to dislike — but he had never trusted him from the day they had first shaken hands in Leslie Hill 's office and McLaren had failed to arrive at the Virgin offices ; failed to keep his promise . |
| 9 | He has dedicated his entire career to the development of sport in Scotland and I am sure all Council members will want to join me in thanking him for the commitment he has shown over the years . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ We 're all fine , there 's no damage to the building and we 've been able to continue broadcasting without interruption , ’ she assured him , her voice sharp as resentment rose , and she went on to inform him of the decision she had taken . |
| 11 | Various accusations , including that of treason , were thereupon levelled against Stratford and attempts were made to exclude him from the parliament which met subsequently . |
| 12 | In a negligence suit brought against him Mr Hill wanted to sue his employer to indemnify him for the damages he had to pay out to Mr Gregory . |
| 13 | This is the same young man who bit the ear of the governor — and we can only meet and get to know him in the novel itself . |
| 14 | Mr Smith condemned him as the man who ‘ designed and delivered the disaster ’ that has pushed the nation into economic crisis and into the Second Division of Europe . |
| 15 | The American people told him at the polls what they had been screaming from the rooftops for two years . |
| 16 | He learned the truth about the cuttings , closing his eyes when he thought of her sitting in the attic , her long day done , painstakingly writing for O'Connor the articles whose brilliance and feeling told him of the intellect which lay behind her beautiful face and emphasised again what he had thrown away . |
| 17 | I told him about the weekend we spent in Kent where Wendy 's brother was stationed , and how we had visited Canterbury Cathedral on our way to Charing , which meant , I explained pedantically , a ‘ turn ’ on the Pilgrim Way . |
| 18 | That 's it yeah , and erm I was erm Wally and Gordon and he thinks there 's another couple you see , so I said well , you know , and I told him about the heater you see and he know , I said when people sitting on their backsides in committee making decisions , I said , you know , I said it just makes me bloody well annoyed , he said I know he said they do n't , they , they make the decisions and , but they do n't do the nitty gritty , they you know |
| 19 | Then when I told him about the baby he was more definite . |
| 20 | Glancing at him , she was tempted to tease him about the sugar he had borrowed earlier , but if she did that it would amount to a tacit admission that he was right about her behaviour . |
| 21 | His present celebrity is a fairly recent phenomenon , and he insists that it has not really affected him , although he acknowledges that his appearances on television shows and in magazine profiles have somewhat robbed him of the anonymity which still clings to his ‘ invisible ’ friend , Cartier-Bresson . |
| 22 | Nevertheless it is indisputable that all the early church fathers believed in the Devil as the Evil One , although it was never found necessary to define him in the way we must do so about God . |
| 23 | Freddie Head , rider of Pistol Packer , opined that ‘ Mill Reef was the best horse I 've ever seen ’ , and the French press compared him with the horse whose stunning victory in the Arc six years earlier had marked him out as the very best horse of the era : ‘ Comme Sea Bird II — mais plus vite ’ , raved Paris-Turf He was indeed plus vite , for his Arc time of 2 minutes 28.3 seconds set a new course record . |
| 24 | When the White House lawyer first tried to debrief Reagan on what he knew of the affair , the president was said to have told him stories of Hollywood ; when journalists badgered him about the deals he had half-wittingly struck with Israel and Iran in August 1985 , he replied amiably : ‘ Everybody that can remember what they were doing on August 8th 1985 , raise your hand . ’ |
| 25 | At times he would claim that his father had been lashed in front of the town and put in the stocks for poaching a salmon , and told to pray for the soul of Lord I — whose goodness had saved him from the hanging he deserved . |
| 26 | They they put him on the rail they tied him to the railway track so he 'd get run over by a train but I do n't think he did . |
| 27 | ‘ God has already shown him by the lightnings what I do think he already knew in his heart . |
| 28 | If I could see him at the back I 'll er , I 'll just get the question a bit more clearer and I 'm sure I can help . |
| 29 | Would he also look to a change of driver to help him with the draw he will want at Augusta ? |
| 30 | As it was , the week he spent on Mrs Goreng 's tour confirmed him in the ideas he had brought with him . |