Example sentences of "[to-vb] he [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | At a PEN Canada benefit event in Toronto last month , Salman Rushdie was cordially embraced by the Ontario Premier Bob Rae , the first government leader to meet him publicly since the Iranian fatwa . |
2 | His petty-bourgeois family background , his status as an intellectual conversant with the rites of bourgeois education , values and culture , his sophisticated literary and critical talents as a writer , all conspired to set him apart from the communist party leadership and rank and file members alike . |
3 | His family could n't afford to set him up as an independent farmer . |
4 | It sets out , by example as well as by direct command , the differences between right and wrong , so that the man who measures his conduct by Bible standards gains from it both " reproof " when he is in the wrong and " correction " to set him back on a right course . |
5 | His head bent towards her and once again Jenna lifted her hands to ward him off in a panic-stricken way , but her fingers felt useless . |
6 | We 're going to put him up for a few days . |
7 | If he improves over the next 3–4 years and lasts until he 's 30 , then you will have to put him up alongside the other 2 . |
8 | I offered , once again , to put him up in the spare room for the night , but , once again , he would n't hear of it . |
9 | Her mind worried the problem of where would he find lodgings , how could she summon the strength to put him out of the only refuge he had ? |
10 | But Travis had been marvellously patient for months and months now — could n't she find a way to put him out of the private hell he was in ? |
11 | And Steve obediently went off , taking with him a jar of Marmite in a garden trowel as a substitute for coal in a shovel , and he stood out there on the front porch in the cold listening to the silence and looking at the stars , waiting for them to let him in on the last stroke of Big Ben on the radio : a faint , feeble echo of some once meaningful ritual , though what it had meant or now could mean nobody there knew or had ever known . |
12 | The oriental had released them from their cells a short time before , and ordered them to precede him down through an open trapdoor into a secret escape tunnel . |
13 | For all that , had she been right just to abandon him pitilessly for the first dashing knight to Pass her way ? |
14 | I was lucky enough to knock him out in the first round . |
15 | Even if it was n't quite enough finesse to keep him out of the loony bin . |
16 | The Goblins wait until the enemy are close by , and then push the Fanatic out towards the foe , giving him a good shove to start him off in the right direction . |
17 | Although the DIA clearly had plans for him , it was evidently in no hurry to send him back to the Middle East . |
18 | If there was no work there , the tramping artisan was fed , given a bed for the night and a few pence to see him on to the next town on the official tramping route . |
19 | She tried to see him dispassionately as a grey-haired solicitor rather too well endowed with easy charm ; indeed , she saw him thus , but she also saw him otherwise , and could not help herself . |
20 | ‘ Gazza has always been brilliant on the football field and it will be great to see him back after the long haul he 's had . ’ |
21 | There were hundreds of screaming women outside and we had to whisk him down to the underground car park and shut the gates behind him . |
22 | Lance Buckmaster , our esteemed Minister for External Security has asked me to attend him down at the ancestral home , Tavey Grange on Dartmoor . ’ |
23 | He hoped the Frenchmen would be content to drive him away from the high road rather than pursue and capture him , but as he quickened the mare 's pace , so the Frenchman spurred their own horses . |
24 | he played once more before the Lord 's show-piece and was called six times for throwing in the Hampshire match , but the selectors decided to risk him again in the second Test , where he was to meet his fate at the most famous ground in cricket . |
25 | At the last he was in front , but he was dead tired and Winter could do nothing to hold him together for the final desperate few yards to the line . |
26 | It took all three of them to lift him out of the reeking waterlogged shelter through an opening just big enough for one of them at a time . |
27 | Despite great pressure to allow a rescue plan to airlift him back to a natural habitat in cold Arctic waters , the Turkish authorities decided to let Russian experts take charge of him . |
28 | She was still trying to get him off with a nice society type . |
29 | We worked very hard to get him out of the Soviet Union — well , you know all that , Mr Carpenter will have told you , and he will have told you what went wrong … ’ |
30 | It wo n't have escaped anybody 's attention that the Indian spinner Anil Kumble rose to the dizzy heights of No 3 in the world thanks to the vain attempts of Robin Smith and Co to fathom him out during the disastrous tour of the subcontinent . |