Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] he [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | We must not blame him for this for he is a product of the evolution which used that very ruthlessness to make him just what he is , and what we all are at the beginning of our lives . |
2 | I should really take him into that |
3 | I do n't know why Barny chose to eat his own chicks , but I must n't judge him in human terms . |
4 | " It 's odd how you always have to ask that question , that you 'll only see him through other men 's eyes . |
5 | And , in the end , she might not lose him after all … |
6 | In fact it might just finish him for good ! ’ |
7 | And the Earl of Warwick might well provide him with additional escort . |
8 | quite like , yeah , I 'll never forgive him for that , he 's now our troop 's sergeant , he 's got a transfer to the other squadron one of these troops , to er , to a troop . |
9 | I 'd rather have him like this . ’ |
10 | Yeah you could , you could perhaps get him on that , yes . |
11 | Apparently , the free spending Italian club AC Milan were so taken with him that they offered Celtic a fee of £100,000 for his services , only to recoil in fear when the club 's manager Jock Stein told him they could only rent him for one game for that amount . |
12 | Faldo ruined his chances with a 76 on Saturday — and even a 67 on the last day could only put him in joint second place . |
13 | One could scarcely describe him as some kind of father-figure ! |
14 | She would not , could not leave him for this boy ! |
15 | Even marriage could not cure him of all his anxieties , and it is salutary to remember that , in some situations , he was as frightened of other people as they were of him : he often seemed shy and hesitant in conversation still . |
16 | She could not associate him with any loss of dignity , or credit , or grace , not because he felt these too nearly and jealously , but because he wore and used them with as little thought as the breath he drew , and they were as natural a part of him , and like breath , when they left him they would leave him dead . |
17 | Holding that the defence was not available the court in effect classified the defendant 's belief that the arrest was unlawful as a mistake of law , which could not avail him for these purposes . |
18 | She could not provide him with small talk , or prod him to abandon his silences . |
19 | Political theories could not provide him with any answers . |
20 | She could not see him in any such clear moralistic light . |
21 | I just thought , yeah , I could just get him into big shit now ! |
22 | Life grew greyer by the day , but Gina could always surprise him with new horrors . |
23 | How could he possibly think such a thing about her — that she would not only take drugs herself , but that she 'd willingly put him in horrific danger by acting as a kind of double agent ? |
24 | In FI he 'll be remembered more as Mr Nice than as a great driver : he won his championship in a car that probably a half-dozen drivers would have driven equally competently and successfully , and in that one year lost the one man who could really push him to greater excellence , Ronnie Peterson . |
25 | But I could n't leave him like that , his back and legs bare . |
26 | He was right , but she could n't leave him like this . |
27 | ‘ I could n't tell him for sure , but he 's been taking Vulcan out most days . |
28 | She found she could n't tell him after all . |
29 | So we could n't fit him in either , so we 've actually sold Marvin sadly to Poole , which erm he 'll lead those to a good team I think . |
30 | Derby winner Dr Devious also raced freely before weakening into 10th and jockey Chris McCarron , who replaced regular rider John Reid , reported afterwards : ‘ I could n't control him at all . ’ |