Example sentences of "[vb base] he [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other gentleman to whom I referred , Mr. Williams , was deported some little while ago , it being cheaper to deport him than prosecute him for the gross fraud that he has perpetrated against the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | Temple could write with perfect confidence in his audience that though he would not ‘ strain the reader 's capacity by asking him to imagine a native Governor of a Colony or Protectorate ’ or even a native Colonial Secretary of Nigeria — a proposal which ‘ does not come within the bounds of practical politics ’ — he counted it an advantage of Indirect Rule that under it ‘ the native can and does fill not only positions of great responsibility but the highest positions , positions which place him on the social scale on an equality with the King 's representative himself ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Saw him at a sale being knocked down to a known horsemeat dealer and stepped in and outbid him at the last moment . |
| 5 | We see a dancer at a rave , film him later that week , and project him at the next rave . ’ |
| 6 | Put him in the wet treatment-room . ’ |
| 7 | catch him at the right time . |
| 8 | A crowd of eager customers would be awaiting his arrival outside the shops and attack him for the particular colour , size or style of dress they had been waiting for . |
| 9 | So you drop him at the actual hospital ? |
| 10 | COMIC Rowan Atkinson is anything but funny in real life and is convinced people who meet him for the first time think he is a disappointment . |
| 11 | ‘ Give him to the Chief Statistician ? ’ |
| 12 | I tell him about the old garage under the arches . |
| 13 | Share My Lettuce boasts an original if rather undernourished droll in Kenneth Williams ( remember him as the alarming brat in The Buccaneer ? |
| 14 | I remember him outside the front door , getting out of the taxi . |
| 15 | However , I refer him to the recent report on our manufacturing performance produced by the CBI entitled ’ Competing with the World 's Best ’ . |
| 16 | I refer him to the independent Centre for Economic Policy Research , where Professor Denis Snower recently published a document saying : ’ Implementing the social charter may be expected to hurt precisely those workers it seeks to help , in addition to raising unemployment and reducing investment ’ . |
| 17 | Set him on the right path with a good education . |
| 18 | Many know him as the British jazz singer , but he is equally respected for his brilliance as a film and tv critic , modern art expert , writer and fisherman . |
| 19 | In our first encounter with Satan we find him within the burning lake of Hell , having fallen from such a great height to such a great depth and now engulfed in fire , licked by flames , seemingly in pain , according to Milton 's narration , yet still able to speak with an uncanny strength and courage against ‘ the potent Victor ’ ( I. 95 ) . |
| 20 | ‘ I speak with Michael Odell inside ten minutes , or I raise him on the open line , ’ said Quinn carefully . |
| 21 | My fridge album is really going to test the list broker , push him to the very limit . |
| 22 | Grant felt a hammer blow strike him on the right breast and a searing pain in his right bicep . |
| 23 | You have to get him wound down a bit , you have to do it , you know of a about half an hour or so ask him for the proper name ! |
| 24 | I remind him of the disproportionate harm that the MacSharry proposals would cause and seek his assurance that he will bear in mind the Scottish farmers and all those elsewhere in Britain when he represents the interests of the British Government and the British farmer in Europe . |
| 25 | When , a long time ago now , Stephen had tried to call him Dad or Father and drop the babyish name , he had shouted that Stephen was all he had in the world and could n't he have a little bit of kindness and call him by the one name that meant something ? |
| 26 | Rory was late for their appointment , and when he arrived , Holdfast told him dourly to close the door and join him at the biggest table . |
| 27 | Moreover , the observer at A forms a picture of the white hole on the basis of all the light rays that reach him at the same time . |
| 28 | He was a giant of a man and did the work of three , and when someone flagged with exhaustion he would appear like a genie by his side and with a quiet word help him over the temporary crisis . |
| 29 | But though certain extremely powerful individuals — like Kraus and his mother — enslave him , it is people , ‘ ordinary ’ folk who are to him completely extraordinary , who free him from the greatest enchanter of them all — books . |
| 30 | Stick him outside the back door it 'll silence him ! |