Example sentences of "[noun] of [verb] he [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who had this kind of machine behind them must be important , so it had the effect of presenting him to the public as this bigger than life pop star which , if you look at his record sales at the time , he was n't , but he was becoming a media myth , some of this due to his own talent and some of it due to the MainMan hype machine . |
| 2 | And perhaps Van Dyck does n't flatter him in quite the way , flatter 's the wrong word , sort of transmutes him in the way that he often does in his very elegant and sophisticated portraits . |
| 3 | I sort of pummelled him on the chest , that was all . |
| 4 | Harbour , having scanned the field for Geoffrey — he had some notion of rushing him from the rear and felling him with a rabbit-chop — ran off to compare notes with Dotty and the others . |
| 5 | She thought of ringing him on the off chance of catching him at the flat , but shelved the possibility as unlikely . |
| 6 | If your foe stoops on a ground unit and is locked in combat you 'll have a good chance of catching him in the flanks . |
| 7 | Because if we turn back , said her mind , then you will be going away from Nuadu , you will be losing what might be the only chance of rescuing him from the Robemaker . |
| 8 | Lewis added : ‘ Bowe 's stripping has robbed me of the chance of beating him in the ring . |
| 9 | Now that her son had taken over , she showed every sign of treating him in the same way , much to his discomfort . |
| 10 | It is just that I am trying to find ways of helping him through the first bad spell of his career . |
| 11 | Having seen herself properly dressed again , she could not bear the thought of confronting him in the skimpy , shabby , ready-made clothes of wartime London . |
| 12 | The strain of having him in the club practically all the time had been hard enough . |
| 13 | The climax of his tale is to profess to excuse Cassio — ‘ But men are men ; the best sometimes forget ’ ( 237 ) — an extremely effective way of indicting him in the eyes of those present . |
| 14 | Miss Thorne suddenly hit upon the idea of casting him as the ghost of Marley , Scrooge 's ex-partner . |
| 15 | A loss would give momentum to the idea of dumping him at the party convention in July . |
| 16 | Sharing Gladstone 's high churchmanship , he was well qualified for the difficult task of reconciling him to the policy of Welsh disestablishment . |