Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] he [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul 's opponents found it easier to agree in synod on his unworthiness for office than to eject him from the episcopal residence . |
| 2 | Edmund Langley , born in 1342 and created Earl of Cambridge in 1362 , was granted part of the Warenne inheritance to maintain his estate , but his marriage to Isabella , youngest daughter of Pedro I of Castile , was used to further Gaunt 's diplomatic schemes rather than to provide him with an adequate endowment . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | On one occasion , when George Brown was to give a seminal broadcast on a new financial plan , Wigg , who had been assigned by the Prime Minister to ensure , or to endeavour to ensure , that Brown arrived at Broadcasting House respectably sober , could think of nothing better to do than to consign him in the early afternoon to the sitting-room in my flat at Ashley Gardens . |
| 5 | Rather than punish him for the attempted rebellion , Henry gave Richard the task of quelling the very Aquitainian rebels from whom he had so recently looked for support . |
| 6 | Vincent looked at him , as if seeing him for the first time . |
| 7 | She looked up at Trent , as if seeing him for the first time : ‘ I 'd have drowned if you 'd left me on the Key . ’ |
| 8 | She moved past them , smiling at Axel , as if welcoming him for the first time . |
| 9 | The encounter could be read as establishing that he has been silly , while clearing him of a certain … imputation . |
| 10 | Tom Selleck as King Ferdinand of Spain is a real hoot — he ca n't decide whether to play him as a moody Continental or haughty monarch , so what we get is a cross between Magnum and Don Juan with an accent that hovers between Malibu and Basingstoke . |
| 11 | As Duncan had already decided not to leave the policeman to his own devices , he had no alternative but to join him on the next available flight to Tobolsk . |