Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [verb] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not the place for a proper discussion of Empson 's views , which like a great deal of British work are more concerned with critical method than with theory ( he wrote ( 1950 : 594 ) that ‘ a critic ought to trust his own nose , like the hunting dog , and if he lets any kind of theory or principle distract him from that , he is not doing his work ’ ) . |
| 2 | Fairbrother was shuffling reluctantly out of the stone doorway as he returned , and Richard greeted him with sarcastic cheerfulness . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , dear , you do n't want to hear my stories , ’ he would say when Benny and Eve plagued him for some information . |
| 4 | A PENSIONER has told how positive thinking and determination pulled him through two strokes . |
| 5 | His lips twisted in scorn , and Lissa hated him for that look . |
| 6 | Strawberry moved out of the burrow and Hazel followed him into another run , leading deeper down below the wood . |
| 7 | ‘ It came just at the time Michael 's voice was breaking and Britten wanted him in that part , so he rewrote it as a young tenor . |
| 8 | And God bless him for that . |
| 9 | Well , I think we 'll get a lot of calls , and people remember him with great fondness . |
| 10 | Heat and smoke buffeted him with welcoming arms as he entered the bar . |
| 11 | But his honesty and modesty endeared him to many who valued his wise advice : not a few he encouraged to posts of greater responsibility and challenge . |
| 12 | He obstructed collection of ship money in 1638 and Poole returned him to both 1640 Parliaments . |
| 13 | Whitelegge 's brother-in-law Victor Horsley [ q.v. ] served on the commission , and Whitelegge supplied him with pathological specimens from rabid dogs caught around Nottingham . |
| 14 | He would like Isobel and Dorothy to see him like this . |