Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun] [verb] he [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Thus the education of a king 's son was supposed to include learning to sleep in a hard or badly made bed to prepare him for the rigours of a life of non-stop , and sometimes unexpected , movement .
2 As William slid the bolts the doors suddenly swung violently outwards , throwing him off balance , and before he could recover two heavily built men pinned him against the office wall .
3 Simon had asked Hilary to marry him in the morning before he went into work .
4 He has resisted attempts to remove him from the Maine Road board in the past , but it has become clear that Lee 's intervention provided much greater pressure on him to step aside .
5 He had started by ‘ snorting ’ Temgesic tablets and had then allowed Murray to inject him with the drug .
6 Quite what that meant is unclear and perhaps was unclear then ( the terms of the 817 Ordinatio would have needed updating anyway since Pippin I had died ) ; but the one thing that was perfectly clear was that Lothar was abrogating the 839 division-plan. sent envoys to remind him of the previous year 's sworn agreement ; of the protection owed by older brother to younger brother and by godfather to godson ; and ( by way of quid pro quo ) , of the obedience owed by a younger son to the primogenitus .
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