Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] he [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few weeks , Mr Sowerberry decided that he liked Oliver 's appearance enough to train him in the undertaking business . |
| 2 | Heady stuff , and to reject it outright with a condescending intellectual leer would have felt like a return trip down the chute into futility ; but now , with the radio offering a bleaker view of things , I was less certain why I 'd agreed so eagerly to meet him in the library of the Hall this morning . |
| 3 | By 1864 his interest in Christianity and his deference to family expectations were still strong enough to lead him to the choice of theology as one of his two subjects at Bonn ; but there is no doubt that belief was a thing of the past . |
| 4 | That was good enough to put him in the lead for the amateur half of the tournament . |
| 5 | Surely the manager could have massaged his ego enough to keep him at the club . |
| 6 | Reading this group of sonnets is to be reminded of the noble conclusion to the first book of Bacon 's Advancement of Learning : In describing his Friend as my love or He the Poet could be seen as using the third-person form in order to place him apart , perhaps to place him outside the sphere of time 's influence . |
| 7 | He allowed her gently to propel him towards the sitting room , all the while murmuring , ‘ Always puzzled me … always puzzled me . ’ |
| 8 | It was only Cranmer who was brave enough to confront him with the evidence of the infidelities of the adored young Queen of his middle age , Catherine Howard . |
| 9 | Like every well-known actor playing tough characters , there was always someone drunk enough to shove him in the back with the challenge , ‘ OK , Mr Tough Guy , let's see how tough you really are . ’ |
| 10 | England , too , came to realise his significance which is why , since the Carling-Guscott partnership began , they have tried somehow to work him into the side . |
| 11 | And when Rufus 's arms grabbed him from behind , ostensibly of course just to duck him under the surface , he found himself resisting in a way that Rufus recognized as real resistance and let him go . |
| 12 | ‘ It is number 52 , is n't it ? ’ she asked , just to keep him at the end of the line . |
| 13 | She wondered whether , if Mrs Khalid were in love with her son 's friend Sharif , would she do as Rhoda had done , try to marry off her daughter to Sharif just to keep him in the family ? |
| 14 | Although I was not fortunate enough ever to see him in the flesh , I suggest that his picture should be tattooed on the brain of every aspiring judge . |
| 15 | Alex Household drew aside to let him into the flat . |
| 16 | She turned her head slightly to look him in the face . |
| 17 | If it enabled the latter the crucial theoretical move of being able to reject the classical empiricist conception of knowledge , it was also to put him in the position of even castigating as ‘ historicist ’ any attempts to account for theoretical discourse in terms of its historical conditions of production — perhaps one of the major ways in which he differed from Canguilhem and Foucault . |
| 18 | This was clearly to prepare him for the task of taking over the captaincy the next summer . |
| 19 | Newton , who celebrated by clubbing in London 's West End , has played in every position for Chelsea — including goalkeeper for part of a reserve game — and Porterfield must be tempted now to leave him at the front for the next test against Middlesbrough . |
| 20 | And indeed it was from this time that he began to suffer the kind of serious ill health which was regularly to affect him for the rest of his life . |
| 21 | For days Mr Hurd has been criticising the Israelis for the harsh treatment of the Palestinians , so it was only politic of the government here to invite him to the Yadvashim memorial to the Holocaust . |
| 22 | ‘ Kevin had broken his ribs or something and me and Mappy had virtually to carry him onto the field . ’ |
| 23 | Richard , Agnes 's younger son , was to find the Justice of the Forests south of Trent twelve ‘ free and law-worthy men ’ who would guarantee that he would well and faithfully keep the said bailiwick on Agnes 's behalf : the Forest Justice was then to admit him to the custody in Agnes 's place . |
| 24 | He was 55 years old in 1860 , living in Lambeth as a bachelor — perhaps with nothing much else to interest him at the time ? |
| 25 | Pip is initially horrified and recoils from the man but gradually comes to understand , and respond to , Magwitch 's love for him , and tries , with Herbert 's assistance , to smuggle the ex-convict abroad again to save him from the death-sentence he would face as an illegally returned transported criminal . |
| 26 | He had already learned his lesson by painful experience ; the burn-like swelling on his left calf still throbbed occasionally to remind him of the morning a week ago when he had drawn on his trousers carelessly , to discover that a scorpion had spent the night nestling in one of the legs . |