Example sentences of "[to-vb] him [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 | For all that , had she been right just to abandon him pitilessly for the first dashing knight to Pass her way ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Thanks very much indeed Pat , and erm that brings me to the end of the lunch time phone in , in fact , the end of my stint on the lunch time phone in , because on Monday Bill will be back ; Bill Heine , so you 'll be able to join him just after the twelve o'clock news . |
| 9 | Now , what Darwin 's reflections on Malthus did was to move him away from a prenatal , maturational sorting of adaptive from maladaptive variation . |
| 10 | ‘ He 's been my guardian spirit for years and it 's interesting to be forced to suppress all my own creativity in order to copy him slavishly to the last detail . |
| 11 | If he loses he still wo n't quit but the FA could be forced to throw him overboard in a latter-day Boston tea party . |