Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] he [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Mackintosh had left for the weekend , but Dr Lange , the literary one , would be free to see him in the morning . |
| 2 | She watched as Luke fought his own anger and then half threw him to the ground . |
| 3 | Since Schorne was described in an episcopal record in 1273 as a subdeacon and became an incumbent with cure of souls at that time , it is probably wrong to identify him with the namesake collated by Archbishop John Peckham [ q.v. ] to the rectory of Monks Risborough ( Buckinghamshire ) on 24 September 1289 , a man who had been ordained subdeacon on the title of that benefice just twelve days earlier in Kent . |
| 4 | He had held a greater ambition for some years , however , and this dominated him until the summer of 1952 — he wished to be President of the United States . |
| 5 | Maradona is not the player he was and Gazza would have found it a lot tougher facing him at the height of his powers in the Eighties when Argentina won the World Cup . |
| 6 | When Midland Amalgamated headhunted him for the MD 's job at Pringle 's they offered him a Rover 3500 Vanden Plas , but Vic stuck out for the Jaguar , a car normally reserved for divisional chairmen , and to his great satisfaction he had got one , even though it was n't quite new . |
| 7 | Two trucks overtaking one another brushed him to the side . |
| 8 | She caught hold of him by the hand and half ran , half pulled him across the room to the door . |
| 9 | It gave him four and a half years of power without full responsibility — although he no doubt did not consider that this placed him in the harlot class . |
| 10 | Indeed , many of John 's contemporaries were prepared to regard him as the Messiah . |
| 11 | Well I mean there was an incidence where erm maybe a guy who did n't clean himself very often they would er a whole group of guys would find it funny to take him into the toilet erm fill a bath up with half with water , put bleach in it erm excrete in it , urinate in it and put him in hit , hit him with ba erm brushes , all kinds of stuff like that . |
| 12 | If he put up a scheme , you would be willing to follow him to the ends of the earth to ensure its fulfilment . |
| 13 | Hari half lifted half pushed him through the window and then she waited breathlessly for any sounds that would indicate that Will had been discovered , but when there was nothing , she moved to the door and to her relief , she saw it swing open . |
| 14 | This pushed him into the path of an oncoming vehicle driven by the second defendant . |
| 15 | For another , it was the opportunity to take proper revenge for the discomfort that Private Eye had caused him over the years , a revenge more satisfying than that afforded him by the Music Box April Fool 's joke . |
| 16 | Cos that allows him to the cost ? |
| 17 | ‘ Nobody 's finding it very easy to meet him at the moment , ’ said Charlotte . |
| 18 | The second hit him in the back then travelled upwards for about eight inches before bursting out of his chest . |
| 19 | " My contribution , " he said , perhaps anxiously , to his daughter , who found it almost impossible to kiss him across the barrier made by these objects and her own girth . |
| 20 | There was no indication of any desire on the part of the appellant to change his behaviour , and it was considered unsafe to release him into the community . |
| 21 | It had been impossible to thwart him under the glare of media attention back at the restaurant , and she was still trying to decide how to deal with the situation if he wanted to come in with her when they reached her apartment — and she knew he would want to . |
| 22 | The novice flyer will normally require that the model 's response to the transmitter is at a minimum , to avoid any tendency to overcontrol , while the gyro has as much effect as possible to help him during the learning process . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Charity 's friends were hardly likely to accept him on the strength of a short acquaintance with the nursery slopes at Wengen . |
| 25 | Somehow it was hard to imagine him in the gym . |
| 26 | ‘ It is a pretty distinctive looking donkey and the person who has him is hardly likely to parade him around the countryside . |
| 27 | There is , indeed , so much vigour in the playing that it is hard to credit him with the age the dictionaries seem to agree on ( he was six months short of his 75th birthday when he made these recordings ) . |
| 28 | I thought she was supposed to have him at the beginning of this month . |
| 29 | They were glad to have him in the gang and he was delighted to be among them . |
| 30 | ‘ They 're likely to charge him over the weekend , so Gerry was tipping me the wink there 's no story for us . |