Example sentences of "[to-vb] he [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , after a lively meeting with directors , Reg was persuaded to carry on as coach by three men in a hearse who asked to meet him outside during a beer break . |
| 2 | Although this was an extremely delicate operation for Nizan to perform , given that in 1934 he had carried out the rather complex act of ideological rehabilitation designed to demonstrate that Gide 's intellectual itinerary was such as to lead him inevitably to a commitment to communism , he none the less succeeded in combining professional respect for Gide 's qualities as a writer with penetrating criticism of what he considered to be Gide 's superficial analysis and hasty dismissal of the Soviet state . |
| 3 | Her husband became an alcoholic and they had to put him away in a clinic . ’ |
| 4 | Told me to keep him still for a couple of days . ’ |
| 5 | Brampton may have been a quiet man but I can not imagine him allowing anyone to hustle him upstairs in a house full of people , tie a noose round his neck and hang him . |
| 6 | I have worked for him for more than three years and have come to admire him both as a doctor and a man . |
| 7 | He wondered if they had come to take him away to a Home for ungrateful and unwanted children . |
| 8 | Had to take him home in a taxi and we had to book out for him . |