Example sentences of "[verb] he [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John 's wife Clare has to stand outside the stable on a crate with Milton 's tail over the top of the stable door and pull it from there , while John has him twitched at the front end . |
| 2 | Has he applied for the same thing ? |
| 3 | What a recipe for disaster — going back to that Spanish girl who 'd got him sacked in the first place , and then … |
| 4 | The efforts of Rusty Conway , Chief Public Relations Officer at U.V.I. , to minimize the publicity caused by this event get him entangled in the competing empires of television and the press . |
| 5 | Something to keep him occupied through the odd thirty seconds of the week when he 's not actually reading some other report . |
| 6 | That 's probably what got him started in the first place . |
| 7 | Presumably some of those who were still loyal to Richard kept him informed of the deteriorating political situation , and of the contacts between his brothers and the rebels . |
| 8 | She looked over , and saw him sprawled over the inbuilt mini-heater vent . |
| 9 | Suitably indignant this week over the pogrom nonsense , he can address the city 's racial tensions with a transparent decency and integrity that did much to get him elected in the first place — and that have served the city well since 1989 . |
| 10 | He jogged every morning with lead weights slung on his chest , back and thighs to get him used to the extra poundage of the armour . |
| 11 | It snatched at Cardiff and he tried to twist away from it , pain like fire stabbing into his chest where the thing had him gripped with the other claw . |
| 12 | In 1919 , a stroke left him paralysed down the left side , confused , unable to read or dictate , and staring vacantly into space . |
| 13 | Had he written about the great hunt , the rites of the warriors ? |
| 14 | Early in the thirteenth century the aspirations of the knightly class were summed up in the Life of William the Marshal , a great man who , had he lived in the twentieth century , might have made his choice between being a high civil servant and a champion professional boxer . |
| 15 | The charges were eventually dropped after an investigation , but had he stayed with the Scots Guards his career would inevitably have been wrecked . |
| 16 | Had he come to the wrong crossroads ? |
| 17 | What had he meant about the last couple of lines of her notes ? |