Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [verb] he [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He never was — which was just as well since fate brought him a series of posts whose functions were not calculated to endear him to the public or the party . |
| 2 | It was clear that she had not expected to find him in the room . |
| 3 | To save his neck and protect his family was perhaps not the noblest of motives for coming forward as a witness , but if the DEA had not sought to frame him under the misapprehension that he was feeding information to Pan Am and the media , and if the DIA had not lacked the will to protect him behind the scenes , the idea of coming forward would never have crossed his mind at all — indeed , he might never even have known that he had a contribution to make to the Lockerbie investigation . |
| 4 | The Sheffield Star , in a piece not destined to endear him to the average Brightside voter , wrote of his ‘ ministerial pin stripes and patrician smooth accent . ’ |
| 5 | John McVurich , alledged diviner , being summond and not compared recommended him to the session of Kilarrow to processe him for the same . |
| 6 | John McVurich , alledged diviner , being summond and not compared recommended him to the session of Kilarrow to processe him for the same . |
| 7 | Smallfry always threatened to lock him in the toolshed with Rosie if ever he dared tell her secrets to anyone else . |
| 8 | I 'll tell you this , I 've always had to like him on the job . |
| 9 | Far from moderating his condemnation of Mansell 's start-line performance in Estoril the previous week , the world champion stuck to his allegation that Mansell had deliberately tried to push him off the track . |
| 10 | A daunting background for the growing boy even though his parents wisely sought to cushion him from the realities . |
| 11 | She had n't really expected to see him at the funeral , though she had looked forward to the possibility with unseemly excitement considering the solemnity of the occasion . |
| 12 | What influence I had with S.B. was now used to persuade him of the wisdom of this course . |
| 13 | None of the agencies involved in the official investigation of the Flight 103 bombing , either British or American , had even attempted to question him about the activities he had observed on Cyprus , despite all the rumours of the DEA 's involvement . |
| 14 | She lived in Paris , he at Croisset ; he would n't come to the capital , she was n't allowed to visit him in the country . |
| 15 | This time Holy Foley faces the John Upson-trained course and distance winner Some Obligation and will be hard pressed to overturn him in the Ludlow Hunters ' Chase today . |
| 16 | They had almost stopped resuscitating him on the grounds that the doctor had n't remembered his diagnosis . |
| 17 | His wife was again allowed to visit him about the same time on the following ( or third ) day of custody . |
| 18 | Touch wood , I 've never had to dope him on the lorry . |