Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] he [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew he 'd fought James on it tooth and nail , and though in all honesty I felt I 'd won him round to some extent since , the prejudices remained beneath the surface of benignity , waiting only for some unwary blunder on my part to crack the surface and let them burst through . |
| 2 | I 'd seen him around at one or two private parties given by wire service operators and gamblers . |
| 3 | Because he 'd pulled him back like that , stopped him from doing what he wanted , he was going to have one of his screaming fits . |
| 4 | It would have been more accurate to say he preferred that version of events to any other , but one lie had committed him now to several distortions . |
| 5 | He got his way in most things , had despotically guided Stephen 's life , had chosen Lyn for him , before that had picked him out of this school , pushed him into that , as soon as he could removed him altogether from academic threat . |
| 6 | He had been a young man when she had met him back in 1898 . |
| 7 | Stuart had noticed him often after that , sometimes on the corner by the students ' union , other times on Princes Street , silhouetted against the store windows , sidling up to the late-night shoppers on Thursdays . |
| 8 | At a parade a few years before the war , when the Crown Prince was a major rising thirty , the Kaiser had shown him up before all his men by calling out to the Brigadier , ‘ teach the boy how to ride ! ’ , and now their relationship was as distant and difficult as ever . |
| 9 | She had taken to him from the first , and he to her , perhaps , on his part , because she had given him some hot mutton broth and let him eat as much bread as he could manage , which had been half a loaf ; and then she had rigged him out in odd things . |
| 10 | They were n't told FIMBRA had kicked him out in 1988 and so they are n't entitled to compensation . |
| 11 | He understood the depth of the compliment : the landlord had compared him favourably with that greatest of heroes , a local boy made good ( so long , of course , as he makes good far away ) . |
| 12 | Anthony Morris , QC , told Manchester Crown Court that Mr Foster died because he had the ‘ misfortune ’ to have been at the same secondary school as the gunman and had known him well for four years . |
| 13 | NoS had mucked him about for more than a year . |
| 14 | She could only now assume that Life had served him badly in some way , at least in his own opinion . |
| 15 | They had hosed him down after that , then poured urine over him . |
| 16 | I concluded from what Heather told me that Alan had taken him on for old time 's sake . ’ |
| 17 | In a letter to his mother he explained that ‘ seeing God had so often heard his most humble petitions , and had delivered him out of many most eminent dangers of soul and body , and had brought his family out of most desperate calamities , he should now seek to serve Him in such a calling ’ . |
| 18 | Men had beaten him up on several occasions , for no apparent reason . |
| 19 | Scenting the strength of Coleby 's desire for the knife , he had beaten him up from two shillings to ten over a period of three days . |
| 20 | And what would his heart tell him about the gods , who had singled him out for this fate ? |
| 21 | He had been thinking , as he frequently did , of pain , and of how it almost seemed as though Rogal Dorn had singled him out for special benediction even before the Primarch 's germ-plasm had been introduced into his body … |
| 22 | Before Aunt Tossie had sent him away to that Special School , Nicandra had been such a good little Queen to him . |