Example sentences of "[vb base] he [prep] [art] [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 | ‘ Send him to a regional office ? ’ |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | The mother says that it was not a wrongful removal and that , even if it was , she has a defence under article 13 in that there is a grave risk that the return of the child would expose him to physical or psychological harm or otherwise place him in an intolerable situation . |
| 5 | Ronny is wanted by 6 or 7 norw. clubs — some want him as a central defender , some as central midfielder , some as a wide midfielder and some as an attacker . |
| 6 | Samuel Beckett We want him in a nice jail where we can keep an eye on him . |
| 7 | In theory , it is a simple matter to overthrow a wilting strongman and replace him with a civilian president conveniently waiting in the wings . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Saw him at a sale being knocked down to a known horsemeat dealer and stepped in and outbid him at the last moment . |
| 11 | Hoxton was thriving with small businesses , and Benjamin was showing the first signs of a schizophrenic uncertainty about what his official professional title should be : the commercial directories for 1853 list him as a General Salesman , while Henry Joseph 's birth certificate plays safe with ‘ Silversmith ’ . |
| 12 | But because it 's so authentic people often mistake him for a real policeman . |
| 13 | We see a dancer at a rave , film him later that week , and project him at the next rave . ’ |
| 14 | erm the managerial action which is available for you , t to take him out of there and put him into a different post , because he 's not capable of doing . |
| 15 | Only the last of these put him in a bad light , but it is enough . |
| 16 | Put him in the wet treatment-room . ’ |
| 17 | catch him at the right time . |
| 18 | One gate that he could open himself let him into a front garden patrolled by two Dobermans , but he was okay with dogs because there had always been dogs at his mother 's home , and at his grandparents ' home . |
| 19 | Ian Snodin 1.1 EVERTON ( Telegraph class him as a full back ? ! ) |
| 20 | Neighbours describe him as a reserved man who did n't mix much . |
| 21 | Neighbours describe him as a reserved man who did n't mix much . |
| 22 | Neighbours describe him as a reserved man who did n't mix much . |
| 23 | Neighbours describe him as a reserved man who did n't mix much . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | So you drop him at the actual hospital ? |
| 26 | Yet , when one of the local farmers , grinding the bony soil of a resisting field , felt the earth give way and drop him into a narrow grave , and discovered there a store of gravegoods disposed around the human remains , the interval of the centuries seemed to close . |
| 27 | Most people neither know nor care about tensions and conflicts within minorities , so when a recognisable spokesman ( and it is always a man ) emerges , they unquestioningly accept him as a legitimate representative . |
| 28 | Although a managing director will usually be an employee the courts sensibly view him in a different light from that of a manual worker . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ Give him to the Chief Statistician ? ’ |