Example sentences of "and [verb] [verb] he [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked if she remembered Old Red , and described meeting him in the subway , but not his current reputation , for that would have been less than tactful , as I hoped one day to marry them off , and unfair , since he had been so pleasant to me . |
| 2 | His American tour kicked off on day one at the Tournament of Champions in Southern California and has taken him to the two major Pro-Ams — the Bob Hope and the Crosby ( aforementioned Pebble Beach National Pro-Am ) — a trio of Florida events — Doral , the Honda Classic and the Players ' Championship — as well as The Masters , the Colonial , the Memorial , the season-ending Nabisco Championship and a slew of less-hallowed events in between . |
| 3 | Franco conducted it on his own terms , however , which meant that it was so gradual as to be barely perceptible at times , and designed to show him in the most favourable light possible . |
| 4 | He was also cursing his luck at being caught out in the open , when three figures stepped forward into the moonlight and stopped facing him across the intervening space . |
| 5 | As he approached the water she begged him to come with her and tried to drag him into the sea . |
| 6 | With Southampton trailing 2-1 and desperate for an equaliser , he grabbed the fan around the head and tried to drag him from the pitch . |
| 7 | Dalgliesh got out of the Jaguar and tried to extricate him from the pushchair , but the anatomy of the chair momentarily defeated him . |
| 8 | Chapman called at Bastin 's home and tried to convince him of the spectacular career he would have at Highbury . |
| 9 | And asserts that he did it ignorantly not knowing there was any evil in it , and after the several members of the presbytery had dealt with him and endeavoured to convince him of the sinfulness of the said practice he seemed to dislike the practice of the charm and judicially promised to forbear it for the future . |
| 10 | And asserts that he did it ignorantly not knowing there was any evil in it , and after the several members of the presbytery had dealt with him and endeavoured to convince him of the sinfulness of the said practice he seemed to dislike the practice of the charm and judicially promised to forbear it for the future . |
| 11 | She looked around her despairingly and began to push him towards the pantry . |
| 12 | She shifted the weight of his arm from her shoulders and began urging him towards the front door before his fabrications began to get even more elaborate . |
| 13 | But Mary was out so I gave him the letter and began to tell him about the trouble at home . |
| 14 | Your captain , Seru , was here earlier this morning and began to tell him about the holes in the AOL . |
| 15 | And they spat on him , and took the reed and began to beat him on the head , and after they had mocked him they took his robe off and put his garments on them and led him away to be , to crucify him . |
| 16 | Kate had decided to skip the afternoon 's classes and arranged to meet him at the boatyard near the Tech . |
| 17 | Flora Strachan , the ecology-conscious pensioner , had chased after him , waving a copy of her pamphlet An Uncommon Common and threatening to report him to the police . |
| 18 | Mr Seymour recalled the astonishment he had felt when a passenger opened the door of his driving cabin and started to hit him around the head . |
| 19 | Forgetting her half-formed resolution to stay in the car , she scrambled out on to the gravel path and started to follow him up the steps . |
| 20 | I roll off my own bank , and try to follow him with the pipper . |
| 21 | Niall got a cabin call and went to see him during the night . |
| 22 | And the first step is to stop treating him like a tube of toothpaste — something you can squeeze the contents out of whenever it suits you — and start appreciating him for the easy-going patient guy he obviously is . |
| 23 | Physio Alan Smith raced on and battled to revive him after the former record buy had blocked his air passage by swallowing his tongue . |
| 24 | Although Gilgamesh failed in his attempt to be a true god , the other gods took pity on his situation and appeared to comfort him with the news that he would live honoured forever as a shadow in the Underworld . |
| 25 | But his mind was quick , and his memories were all intact ; and the longing never really went away , that awful persistent longing that could find outlet only in frustration and anger , and a wish to do bad things ; to hurt and to insult like he did now while he waited for David to concede defeat and agree to take him to the auction after all . |
| 26 | This is the same young man who bit the ear of the governor — and we can only meet and get to know him in the novel itself . |
| 27 | In fact , Dustin was not unknown to Nichols , who had seen him in Journey of the Fifth Horse and had auditioned him for the Broadway musical The Apple Tree . |
| 28 | He apparently was doing some work for her father , David Fairfax , and had told him about the school . |
| 29 | The Guardian of Jan. 9 , for example , reported that Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) documents circulated internally in late December had been critical of Gorbachev and had blamed him for the " subversion " of socialism in Eastern Europe . |
| 30 | When Ricky began taking Jenny out she was surprised to learn that Minton paid him money and had taken him to the Caribbean . |