Example sentences of "[vb pp] he [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he went to the commanding officer at Binbrook ( who was the one who had recommended him in the first place ) , and said — no thanks , I want to get out . |
| 2 | Brian refused to reveal who had approached him about the royal job . |
| 3 | After it had trapped him for the third time , he ordered all the cages to be thrown into the sea . |
| 4 | Many heiresses could give him dollars , few could offer him the appearance and manner of a lady — it was that which had attracted him after the cruder charms of such as Maybelle Foy . |
| 5 | Manuel had quietly melted away , perhaps to leave the stage clear for Andy , perhaps to grieve alone at the cruel injustice that had robbed him of the top prize . |
| 6 | His father had named him for the Mughal Babur , a conqueror , a hard drinking , hard riding Turk who loved poetry , laughter and gardens . |
| 7 | Would you have made him into the working-class Christopher Fry ? |
| 8 | She had hardly seen him over the last months . |
| 9 | ‘ Were n't you surprised to have seen him in the first place ? |
| 10 | She had seen him in the little town so immersed in looking up at the old buildings , that he ran into a lamppost . |
| 11 | Mum , look what I 've done Grumpy on done him , I 've done him in the right hat you see |
| 12 | ‘ He claims to have met him for the first time at the Windorah ; it 's a bar frequented mainly by foreigners . |
| 13 | ‘ I have a proposition for you , ’ he said to Burkett and as he said it he weighed up his man as if he had met him for the first time . |
| 14 | Shannon had met him for the first time when he 'd arrived to film the pilot episode , and her dislike for the golden Adonis had been instant . |
| 15 | Has she met him in the Three Pigeons ? |
| 16 | ‘ Our people have met him in the social life of the arts world . |
| 17 | I asked the villagers if they had seen him and Mr Natchet , the postman , said he had met him by the front gate when delivering letters about a month ago . |
| 18 | If it failed , there would be no mercy shown him by the enraged Executioner . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've relieved him of the financial burden , but we both share the interest of the place . ’ |
| 20 | And then you 've got him on the right hand side look making cheese , this is brother again , that 's not brother . |
| 21 | This kind of thing has an unsettling effect on a player but fortunately David is a level-headed lad and I 've told him about the latest situation . |
| 22 | He had told him of the English girl on that first day when he had asked for the loan of the flat and permission for Constance to telephone from his palazzo . |
| 23 | ‘ Clinger told me before he left that his lordship had had him in the second Sunday he was there and told him he expected him to switch on the electric fire in the private chapel ten minutes before matins . |
| 24 | The self-confidence inspired by his Eton and Trinity background may have helped him in the several differences of opinion he has encountered in his life . |
| 25 | The ‘ fine boy ’ with the grim destiny is Thomas Fox , a boy of fifteen whose father , a small farmer , has entrusted him for the first time with a flock of sheep for Portsmouth market . |
| 26 | According to Constanze , he received the news with painful resignation , saying that the situation would have enabled him for the first time to have sufficient leisure to write what he wanted , and to justify his growing reputation ; but instead only death awaited him . |
| 27 | ‘ I wish I 'd never employed him in the first place ! ’ |
| 28 | She 'd invited him round the previous evening and things had n't gone at all as he 'd hoped . |
| 29 | ‘ Several times more than once , ’ the Doctor said , the tone of his voice reflecting the numerous occasions on which Bernice had dragged him into the flea-pit cinema she 'd found in the TARDIS and insisted that he pay attention to the noir motifs and the semiotics of Double Indemnity . |
| 30 | Yeah , I found , only because I went out one night , and , it was when Mike was still next door and what I 'd done I 'd locked him in the back room and he said he was howling |