Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [v-ing] he [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Providing the valuer had been honest and diligent , the court should be cautious before convicting him of professional negligence merely because he had failed to be the first to spot a ‘ sleeper ’ . |
| 2 | The office gossip had been quite useful in reassuring him on that point , and he had been able to view the uncomfortable ride in the lift with them in an encouraging new light . |
| 3 | Whatever their differences , could Huy hold himself responsible for sending him to such an end ? |
| 4 | She had no intention of saying anything else ; in fact she had been quite undecided about answering him at all , but he looked just a bit too angry for outright defiance and he was decidedly bigger than she was . |
| 5 | A Greek court sentenced Muhammad Rashid , a Palestinian , to 18 years in prison on Jan. 8 after convicting him of premeditated manslaughter for his role in the 1982 mid-air bombing of a US Pan-Am airliner over Hawaii in which one person died [ see pp. 36563 ; 36667 ] . |
| 6 | Experience had taught Stirling that the RAF were generally much more co-operative about supplying him with reliable intelligence . |
| 7 | He should neither do damage to Mr. Jones , nor be slow in warning him of any impending danger ; fornication , marriage , gambling and the haunting of taverns or playhouses was strictly proscribed , and generally a monastic restraint was to be observed in all things . |