Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] he [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pipe feeding the power steering system came adrift on the climb oil to pump out of the hydraulic system , and Fisher seized the opportunity to start building a lead that was eventually to carry him to a record fourth successive Lakes victory . |
| 2 | Character is calculated exactly to support the theme of hierarchy on shipboard in Trial Trip , where a galley boy discovers that he is not entirely free to resume a schoolboy friendship with Tich , now in the second year of his apprenticeship , and in Out of the Shallows , where a sixteen-year-old apprentice with a decided chip on his shoulder suffers from the complications which friendship with a steward brings , particularly as the steward , a thoroughly shifty individual , is merely using him as a way of furthering his own ends . |
| 3 | She only fought him for a moment or two . |
| 4 | I hated myself for wounding him , and for perhaps driving him to a life of wickedness , or even death . |
| 5 | The fact that such an occupation was un-likely to provide him with a living did nothing to deter him . |
| 6 | It felt good to talk about it , to describe her sense of total humiliation at having , as it were , bared herself to Matthew only to find him in a dressing gown , with some … strumpet drinking coffee with her dress half-unbuttoned . |
| 7 | Were n't you saying in the tent only yesterday : " When Charles has been beaten and stripped of his weapons , I 'll personally tonsure him as a cleric and take him back to Ravenna " ? |
| 8 | Twice he needed to have attention from a doctor on the course but battled on to record a four under par 66 which was good enough to leave him in a tie for 9th place , nine shots behind the winner , Eduardo Romero from the Argentine . |
| 9 | He can only approach him as a vassal might approach a great overlord , a rebellious vassal at that , who now repents his treachery and wishes to make amends . |
| 10 | I think we 're walking round , I think 's probably more , more efficient than perhaps inviting him to a meeting . |
| 11 | I only saw him for a moment , but my blood seemed to freeze . |
| 12 | This , remember , was said only a few months after Battiston of France suffered a serious neck injury when Schumacher , the West German goalkeeper , brutally bodychecked him in a World Cup semi-final . |
| 13 | New dating techniques had been developed and these were used on Piltdown Man so exposing him as a fraud . |
| 14 | But oh , Nicodemus if you only see him as a teacher you only see the minute part of me ! |
| 15 | The indignation has a strained and petty air about it : Joe 's greatest crime does not seem to be his contribution to the deaths of 21 servicemen but his letting down his son , who can no longer regard him as a hero . |
| 16 | Fitzosbert , however , had already dismissed him with a flicker of his eyes and was staring coolly at Sir John as if to prove he was not cowed by any show of authority . |
| 17 | At the moment , she just loves him as a friend . |
| 18 | She no longer provided him with a defence against his own yearning for safety which had been so well hidden behind his off-hand behaviour . |
| 19 | When he finally surfaced , his mouth stale and his eyes hot and gritty , Lucifer 's atmosphere had already enfolded him like a shroud . |
| 20 | In welcoming him , the party thus welcomed him as a stereotype . |
| 21 | As Dick comes to know Count Jasper he no longer sees him as a villain and realises that this inscrutable man is in his own way working for the same ends as the conspirators . |
| 22 | Just slap him about a bit . |
| 23 | An alternative theory , and one which , if true , must sadden him , is that China no longer regards him as a threat . |
| 24 | Ah just ask , just ask him for a drop of |
| 25 | She had just taken him to a psychiatrist who among many searching questions had asked the five-year-old : ‘ If your sister is a girl , what is your brother ? ’ |
| 26 | At least he was spared the knowledge that he 'd given the doge 's ring to a heartless little bitch who 'd just taken him for a ride . ’ |
| 27 | Just glimpsed him for a moment , not to be certain . |
| 28 | No see I must admit I wonder whether your Mum will find too much of a handful she 's already telling him off a lot you know ? |
| 29 | He took vulgar public revenge on me by mocking in the pages of Madame Bovary a seal I had once given him as a token of love . |
| 30 | Time magazine still regarded him as a bit of an upstart , stating that his attempts at humour made him look like a third Smothers Brothers , and his laconic manner appeared to be a handy substitute for acting . |