Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [to-vb] he [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The college failed to elect him to the Bye-Fellowship . |
| 2 | If our dear departed were not going to speak out against the Berlin talks as seemed altogether likely suppose — I must say suppose — that some deranged mind decided to eliminate him under the guise of a Muscovite attempt on the dear Praident ? |
| 3 | Bernice went to slap him on the back . |
| 4 | The King of Portugal offered to raise him to the title of Count Torre Bella on condition he took Portuguese nationality . |
| 5 | Alec Guinness introduced him to the audience after the first night , although such was his nervousness that Sherek had to push him onto the stage and , when a photographer blew a flash bulb in his face just as he was about to speak , he muttered " Oh my God " . |
| 6 | Jean 's boss decided to bring him into the business as a sales director . |
| 7 | Ossie wanted to ask him about the two gentlemen of Verona . |
| 8 | His talent for imaginative lying helped to elect him to the Senate after the war as ‘ Tail Gunner Joe ’ . |
| 9 | ERIC Butler , a charity worker , fought back with his swordstick when a mugger tried to strangle him on the London Underground in 1987 . |
| 10 | The tentacle started to pull him across the floor . |
| 11 | Mark Kiff went to see him on the day he took his test . |
| 12 | He kept glancing north to make certain no enemy troops appeared to pin him against the river . |
| 13 | The international winger Sergeant George Wall of the 11th Black Watch and Manchester United offered to play for City but the taxi sent to collect him from the station waited in vain . |
| 14 | The clerk of the court refused to supply him with the names of the lay justices who had decided it , pursuant to a policy which was being adopted by an increasing number of magistrates courts of declining to identify justices to the public or the press . |
| 15 | Sir Alec Guinness 's head refused to put him in the school play — thinking he would never make it as an actor . |
| 16 | When Terry succumbed Safi refused to leave him off the chain at night . |
| 17 | In 1657 Crofton tried to bar him from the pulpit , as a heretic and troublemaker . |
| 18 | Moses , for instance , was a whimpering mass of inferiority as God began to commission him at the burning bush . |
| 19 | Doctors fought to save him in the days afterward . |
| 20 | Anyway , the outcome was that the other members tried to expel him from the branch . |
| 21 | Marc got up , face like a thunder-cloud , the look he gave Peter designed to shrivel him on the spot . |
| 22 | The glass was bullet-proof , sky-proof , sea-proof , plant-proof , stone-proof , everything-proof and he refused to come out of it , not even when the Headmaster threatened to throw him to the giant eel for being so cowardly . |
| 23 | More traumatic still , James Prior , with the greatest reluctance , was forced to move from Employment to the exile of Northern Ireland , even though Mrs Thatcher had to keep him on the Cabinet 's main economic forum , the E Committee . |
| 24 | Our men tried to shoot him in the water , but it was dark , there was no moon — and we lost him . |
| 25 | Italian club Torino tried to tempt him to the land of loads of lira , but Nigel 's mother put the block on that move . |
| 26 | A scrawny nationalist in tattered jeans tried to grill him on independence for the benefit of the cameras and a woman in Capaldi 's fish caravan threatened to slap him round the face with one of her fish if he broke any election promises . |
| 27 | There was one occasion when he went into a café and asked for tea and then while he waited he suddenly saw a solution to a theological argument which he had with Leslie Owen the warden , and his waving of hands was so convulsive that the café refused to serve him with the tea . |
| 28 | The Labour MP Dr Jack Cunningham was touring the complex during the nuclear spillage , but the nuclear company failed to notify him of the incident . |
| 29 | This was not a principle calculated to endear him to the Inland Revenue or the men from Customs & Excise . |
| 30 | His mother sought to protect him from the usual customs such as summoning the relatives to his father 's bedside , but the trauma was nevertheless very deeply felt . |