Example sentences of "[vb past] he [prep] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Chris who prodded him into handing over to Patrick . |
| 2 | What was worrying him more , he said , was the language barrier which prevented him from linking up with his Japanese teammates . |
| 3 | Others applauded him for standing up to America . |
| 4 | It may be that it was their actions that tipped the balance for Rank , and decided him against pushing on with his ambitions . |
| 5 | But what undermined him in office , and made him worth hearing out of it , was his surprise at becoming Prime Minister in the first place — Rab Butler shared that — so that , he agreed , he never quite suppressed a sense of the absurdity of his position . |
| 6 | There were Sundays when Dadda did n't come to lunch , when depression kept him from stirring out of doors . |
| 7 | They accused him of dressing up as a woman to seduce his enemies , and of fancying Elmer Fudd . |
| 8 | His opponents accused him of selling out to the United States on North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) with the United States and Mexico and leaving Canada with more unemployed and a bigger public debt than ever . |
| 9 | Though he was , like McCarthy , anti-war , he believed Johnson to be invincible ; now he too entered the race , much to the chagrin of the McCarthy camp who accused him of muscling in on their act . |
| 10 | Until recently Saddam Hussein was supported only by a lunatic fringe in the Soviet Union ; the leader of Pamyat , an anti-Semitic group , praised him for standing up to Zionism . |
| 11 | He hoped to make amends in the 200 metres and would have started a clear favourite had first the marksman and then the referee not barred him from lining up for the heats . |