Example sentences of "[be] [verb] he [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Coleman knew them already — they had been to see him at the University of Alabama while planning the trip — and so it was natural enough that he should now take on the chore of shepherding them around the island during their stay . |
2 | When they met , Burn said that Donaldson had been to see him in the interim . |
3 | ‘ Speaking crossly and rudely although Carrie had only been stewing indoors because she had been helping him in the shop ! |
4 | I had been walking him around the roads for a couple of weeks and could n't wait to have him fit again . |
5 | Short had been saving him for the Ascot race . |
6 | And , Father , he asked — the lord sheriff asked — that I should beg you to have Brother Cadfael informed also , and when the morning comes , if you permit , I am to lead him to the place , to meet the sheriff there . |
7 | Detectives have been hunting him since the discovery of a bomb factory in a London flat shortly before last Christmas . |
8 | I wonder if they 're keeping him in the morgue , by the way ? |
9 | They wo n't take any notice of us , Baptiste said : the ambulance is round the front , I saw it , and they 're carrying him into the downstairs bit . |
10 | His father had been shielding him from the stones coming through . |
11 | Well er by the time I arrived at the doorway to the room erm a male person was lying on the floor , spreadeagled er and my job would have been to cover him with the shot gun er to enable P C to go forward and handcuff the chap . |
12 | We 'd been feeding him from the hand like , oh . |
13 | Dunwoody had in the past won on Norton 's Coin and would have been riding him in the Gold Cup had Desert Orchid been absent . |
14 | It er we are expecting him for the course on that date . |
15 | Our last Letters are dated Hobart Town Feb. 9 up to which time his expedition had been eminently successful ; far more so than he could have anticipated ; the most liberal assistance had been rendered him by the Authorities , everything that could facilitate his views being cheerfully accorded : while nothing could exceed the kindness of Sir John and Lady Franklin in whose house he was then residing : in fact so much were they interested in his pursuits that upon more than one occasion they accompanied him in his exploring parties . |
16 | Even Radio 1 are tipping him as the favourite ! |
17 | Now Becky Blandford , although separated from her husband has been defending him on the daytime television programme , This morning . |
18 | The answer had been staring him in the face . |
19 | Rex had evidently been viewing him through the eyes of a Repo Man . |
20 | ‘ He can operate as a defender , a sweeper or a midfielder , and I 'll be using him in the midfield role . |
21 | I 'll be seeing him before the match . |
22 | Some deep throbbing vibration seemed to be keeping him in the air , and his limbs ached . |
23 | In fact , ’ she added , driven by an unholy desire to be perverse , ‘ I shall be meeting him after the boat ride . |
24 | So I 'm kicking him under the table ! |
25 | Mrs Prentice , had to wait until 2.20am before she knew that she would be joining him in the House , ousting Tory Energy Minister Colin Moynihan , in the process . |
26 | Er , no I think I 'm having him on the Monday cos she 's going to have her hair permed |
27 | I could be putting him on the spot . |
28 | I shall be watching him on the television . ’ |
29 | What might be watching him from the shadows ? |
30 | Towards the end of his playing career when he was with Hibs and contemplating a move to the Orlando Lions , a short lived soccer team in Florida , Rough 's business interests not only brought him appalling bad luck but imposed a series of financial set-backs that were to affect him in the years to come . |