Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] he [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alison met him in the same bar . |
| 2 | When Pauline Kael reviewed him as the bloated Jake La Motta in Raging Bull , she said that what De Niro was doing was certainly something , but she 'd hesitate to call it acting . |
| 3 | Britain 's golden boy who lost his shine when newcomer David Grindley beat him for the final place in today 's 400 metres final is ready to take a year off from the track if it means he can beat the trouble . |
| 4 | Mountbatten 's task was not simplified when General MacArthur saddled him with the additional responsibility of taking over Indonesia and Indo-China , previously within the American sphere . |
| 5 | An ad in the Sevenoaks Chronicle led him to the white 1988 Sierra Sapphire 1.8 LX , advertised at £3750 . |
| 6 | Ramsey had moved out of the Barthian influence which via Hoskyns attracted him during the earlier 1930s . |
| 7 | Late that evening , Corbett was found by a servant sent by Selkirk , who announced in broad Scots that the knight would be grateful if Corbett joined him in the outer bailey near the main gate . |
| 8 | Grimma followed him across the chilly floor as more nomes filed into the shed and huddled apprehensively along the walls . |
| 9 | ( Paradoxically the release of tension enabled him in the next week to run up , turn out , patch together , a poetical melodrama about Cabestainh with which the house-guests had some civilised fun . ) |
| 10 | Foreigners viewed him as the typical Englishman , a bit of a dandy . |
| 11 | Grey eyes questioned him with the full seriousness of her young being . |
| 12 | That many of his clients saw him in the former category is suggested by the fact that they frequently passed to him details of their restless and unsuitable executives in the hope that he would redeploy them . |
| 13 | The whole interview reminded him of the English card game in which you not only had to guess what cards your opponent held , but decide what he thought yours were , and so on . |
| 14 | Winter had to aim Mandarin for the middle course but his mount started wandering off to the left before pressure from the vice-like grip of the jockey 's thighs pointed him in the right direction . |
| 15 | Woolley chased him to the nearest bomb-crater . |
| 16 | Ward told him about the two diversions below Chilete and the need to switch to the old road that ran along the lip of the gorge . |
| 17 | Jane met him at the front door . |
| 18 | Sheffield went ahead after 30 minutes when Gage knocked the ball past Allen as he burst into the goalmouth and , though Walker parried both his shot and Deane 's follow-up , Deane beat him at the third attempt . |
| 19 | A ragged laugh escaped him at the startled look in her eyes . |
| 20 | She was not at the inn , not in the meadows , and when he finally found a sufficiently oblique way to ask where she might be , his misreading of the directions sent him along the wrong path past the wrong waterfall and up the surprisingly taxing slope of the wrong fell . |
| 21 | Because McKenzie know little or nothing about rugby , the coach tossed him into the front row . |
| 22 | Again , Brian Harley hit a less-than-perfect drive , but his two-iron across the angle of the dogleg put him on the front edge of the green . |
| 23 | Hugh liked him from the first ; and so do I like him , I like him very well . |
| 24 | The vicar of St Giles introduced him to the little religious group called the Oratory of the Good Shepherd , and one of those priests , Gordon Day , became a friend of Ramsey and adviser in religion . |
| 25 | The rye hid him from the French rankers , and only those officers on horseback could see the Rifleman over the tall crop . |
| 26 | Padding the streets and prying into the window of a man 's life , and the trail turned him towards the second-floor flat of Mrs Angela Holly ( née Wells ) , two miles from the home of her former husband and parents-in-law . |
| 27 | ‘ Not before time , ’ Stevie remarked , as Patrick joined him on the 17th tee . |
| 28 | It was in 1977 and ‘ 78 that McEvoy won this title before Ronan Rafferty beat him for the first ( and only ) time in nearly 30 matches for England . |
| 29 | Another band encircled him from the left , two massive arms had him from behind , his feet were lifted from the ground . |
| 30 | ‘ Rodney Martin beat him in the 1991 World Championship and I 've beaten Martin , so anything is possible , ’ he said . |