Example sentences of "[prep] he [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of him hankered after the poetic Victorian times when women died in childbirth at twenty leaving their partner free to get another young girl . |
| 2 | And he er he 'd made all that lace , well then instead of him going in the First World War and making the net which was used you see his lace trade all went . |
| 3 | By forging letters from Walter she , paradoxically , felt she could convey a real image of him to stand against the false one . |
| 4 | He was thus a particular target for the Tories , and according to his own account lost his seat at the 1702 election after a specific campaign against him inspired by the Tory leaders . |
| 5 | I besought him if the decision went against him to return to the Upper House and do his bit there . |
| 6 | Quiss clawed at the wall , tearing the faded , yellowing books away from it , throwing them behind him like a dog digging a hole in the sand , bellowing incoherently and tearing and swiping at the wall , baring the green-black slate beneath as the torn , ripped pages fluttered away behind him falling to the grimy glass floor like some flat , grubby snow . |
| 7 | Melges 's answer was to pin up two crew lists , with him staying with the new Kanza . |
| 8 | There is no way he can focus on the ball properly with him looking over the front shoulder . |
| 9 | Indeed it is a credit to Wilko that the board have been confident enough in him to compete at the highest levels in the transfer market . |
| 10 | Corbett sang the psalms with them , feeling a great deal of the tension within him dissipate with the monotonous , harmonious chant . |
| 11 | It may be said at once that the earlier date , adopted by the the editor of the Istanbul edition of Asikpasazade and Danismend , may safely be ruled out , not only through the evidence of Molla Yegan 's involvement with Molla Gurani but also on the basis of an anecdote about him related in the tenth volume of the history by Kemalpasazade ( d. 940/1534 ) . |
| 12 | After discussions with medical experts , Caolan 's parents , Brendan and Catriona , decided it would be best for the child and family for him to return to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children . |
| 13 | For default summonses , " sufficient time " means sufficient time for the defendant to deliver a defence , admission or counterclaim within fourteen days after delivery of the summons , and sufficient time in the case of fixed date summonses for him to attend on the return day ( Ord 7 , r 18(3) ) . |
| 14 | To his surprise , Molly threw away the dregs of tea in her beaker and held it out for him to fill with the frothing liquor . |
| 15 | Eventually , though , I could no longer manage him at home — he was so weak ; so I arranged for him to go into the residential home , where Miss Prescott and Mrs Whitaker did everything they possibly could to make him happy and comfortable — and succeeded . |
| 16 | It 'll make a change for him to cook in the open instead of the kitchen . ’ |
| 17 | Further work with this family is required as Darren 's weight gain is not yet sufficient for him to thrive in the long term , but it demonstrates the intensity and the long-term nature of the help required . |
| 18 | Punctual arrival at the head of the queue which formed up by 9:15 on the January Monday morning meant for him rising in the small hours and manoeuvring a moped along frozen lanes to catch the milk train from Kingham to Paddington , but he never failed to appear . |
| 19 | They said if we did n't consent for him to claim for the two of us , they 'd summons me and him for aiding and abetting . |
| 20 | He either did n't believe her , or was so unused to accepting answers unquestioningly that it was second nature for him to delve into the nitty-gritty . |
| 21 | His hands were shaking , and it was hard for him to stand in the terrible screaming wind . |
| 22 | between a lot of parked cars and there was a , I was coming down the road and all I needed to do was to actually stop where I was cos there was enough room on his side of the road for him to come past the parked car and round me |
| 23 | A big wad was given to the young man for him to rub on the affected area and Boltwood gave the rest of it to me . |
| 24 | Paul Taylor 's left-arm pace could be valuable at Calcutta , where the ball tends to swing , but for him to play in the first Test after barely a month of his first trip overseas would be a gamble . |
| 25 | The eagerness with which the boy sought for knowledge , however , so impressed his schoolmaster that he continued to teach him without a fee ; then , through Hooker 's uncle who was Chamberlain of Exeter , he persuaded John Jewel , Bishop of Salisbury , to pay for him to study at the latter 's old college of Corpus Christi at Oxford . |
| 26 | His acceptance of what he calls ‘ the doctrine of the manyness of reality ’ , by which he probably means that reality can be conceived of in many different ways , makes it possible for him to approve of the non-creative aspect of God as propounded by the Jains , and the creative aspect of God as propounded by Rāmānuja the foremost exponent of the Viśi ādvaita position . |
| 27 | It 's almost impossible for him to get to the decent matches . ’ |
| 28 | If the Minister is not prepared to shoulder the burden on behalf of the British taxpayer , is the time not right for him to work with the European Community in establishing a Europewide diversification initiative ? |
| 29 | There were some mornings , Monday mornings in particular , when it would have been as quick for him to walk to the main gates and then catch an internal minibus to his office block . |
| 30 | He said it was all right for the pot to come off and for him to walk on the injured foot . |