Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] he [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notes in Winston Churchill 's files suggested that Britain 's options were either to send a " correct " reply to the South , commiserating with him in declining to advise him , or to encourage him along the American line , or to urge him to undertake an all-out campaign against Mossadeq . |
| 2 | What the charity groups think of him is hardly going to make or break him in the operatic world . ’ |
| 3 | When the boy gave no answer , the old man took him by the arm and propelled him to the far end of the room , down the narrow stairway , through the tiny door and back to the safety of his own bedroom . |
| 4 | Then they peeled back the bedcovers and laid him on a crisp sheet , covering him from the waist down with another sheet . |
| 5 | Someone grabbed his arm , and led him to a waiting horse on which he galloped away leaving behind his winnings . |
| 6 | Sylvie wrapped her hand round Thomas 's arm and led him towards a far corner . |
| 7 | But in the same split second something like an iron band clamped round his waist , squeezing the breath from him and bringing him to a dead stop . |
| 8 | His political ideals included the concept of arbitration as a substitute for war in the settlement of national disputes , and involved him in the jingoistic disputes of 1877 . |
| 9 | He pounded Benichou to the body and caught him with a right cross to the chin at the end of the first . |
| 10 | If you put your Orc Shaman on a wyvern and fly him to the other end of the battlefield he wo n't be able to use his Waaagh magic . |
| 11 | A furtive junior diplomat bowing and scraping his way out of the interview section of the Lefortovo , ogling the KGB man and thanking him for a fifteen-minute access to a prisoner for whom the key was now thrown far away . |
| 12 | After a reviving sip of coffee , she took a deep breath , flipped off her dark glasses , and fixed him with a level gaze . |
| 13 | The sixteenth-century writers who condemned depopulation looked for a depopulator , and found him in the enclosing landlord , who found that stock , -rearing was more profitable than corn-growing . |
| 14 | His deputy , Robert Forgan , had satisfactory talks with Neil Francis Hawkins about the amalgamation of the New Party with the British Fascists , but the grand council of the British Fascists voted against a merger by one vote in May 1932 after its founder Rotha Lintorn Orman , who was very suspicious of Mosley and regarded him as a near communist , vigorously opposed the change . |
| 15 | Then , when he sought to take the oath , the House itself refused and excluded him on the dubious ground that , being an atheist , he could not swear . |
| 16 | The man held up a hand to silence Barak then turned to the guard beside him and dismissed him with a curt nod of the head . |
| 17 | Buchanan 's Triangles clubmate Mark Tosh pushed hard to try and catch him on the five-mile run but the Derry man won in a time of 1.28.52 . |
| 18 | Even so the men who stole a hundred pounds from him at his home in Witney still felt the need to punch and kick him and beat him with a wooden club . |
| 19 | They bound Guthlac ‘ in all his limbs … and brought him to the black fen , and threw and sank him in the muddy waters ’ . |
| 20 | Apart from helping with his wardrobe , LASMO also covered the costs of his tuition , accommodation and books , and provided him with a living allowance . |
| 21 | A second group of provincial delegates arrived in St Petersburg just after his appointment and provided him with a sympathetic audience for his opinions . |
| 22 | In theory , it is a simple matter to overthrow a wilting strongman and replace him with a civilian president conveniently waiting in the wings . |
| 23 | Charlemagne and the pope had received information from certain persons that Offa was suggesting that the Frankish king should depose Hadrian and replace him with a new pope of Frankish extraction . |
| 24 | WE WISH TO REMOVE CASTRO AND REPLACE HIM WITH A WEALTHY RIGHT WING ENTREPRENEUR |
| 25 | They insisted that Derek enter their car and drove him to a quiet layby a short distance away . |
| 26 | Indeed , to do so would mean the reversal of a process that has , since the sixteenth century , relentlessly parted the commoner from his freehold and common rights , and reduced him to a landless labourer . |
| 27 | Big-punching Wharton is also free of the agony in his right hand that plagued him for months and reduced him to a one-armed fighter when he was held to a draw by Londoner Lou Gent in November . |
| 28 | If Charlie had been a different man , a cultivated man or effeminate or living in a bygone age when tongues were more freely unloosed , he might now have embraced Jack and told him from a full heart how he entered wholly into his joy and would die for his happiness . |
| 29 | Blinked a few times instead and told him in a croaky voice that I 'd met Erica Upton twice and had sat next to her at dinner . |
| 30 | Mr Brandreth met with Mr Hanley and told him in no uncertain terms that the people of Chester were far from happy with the decision to go to Glasgow . |