Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How could they expect him to perform with someone like that ? |
| 2 | That is to say a little evidence against it will cause him agonies of doubt and self-mistrust , moderate amounts will cause some real concern and a pursing of his lips — but total and irrefutable proof of his law 's inaccuracy , its illogic , its basic and undeniable untenability , will cause him to cling to it in all its unmodified entirety with the tenacity and single-mindedness of a barnacle . |
| 3 | Got him to agree to it at last . |
| 4 | I know that the Minister may not be in a position to respond in detail to the comments made on this subject by the hon. Member for Cardiff , North and me , but I hope that he will take them on board and I ask him to write to us on these important local issues . |
| 5 | Eight years later the Comte de Lambert — one of Europe 's pioneer aeronauts — drew a crowd of 20,000 to watch him fly over it in one of France 's earliest aeroplanes . |
| 6 | The patient may find these activities both boring and frustrating , especially if you are constantly trying to make him concentrate on them as educational tasks . |
| 7 | His Mum had n't taken him to work with her since last year . |
| 8 | We sat before him looking at him with respectful eyes ( that is , all but one of us , who usually went to sleep as soon as the class started ; she was not just closing her eyes , she was fast asleep ) . |
| 9 | It was n't going to be easy , arguing with someone from her inferior position , but she 'd be damned if she 'd let him speak to her like that ! |
| 10 | ‘ May God rest your soul , Mother , ’ I heard him say to himself at last . |
| 11 | I 'd like to remind him that 's nothing to the idiot he made of himself on All Fools Day last when he found the dead stoat I 'd placed in the pulpit . |
| 12 | It was always the other way round , and when he found overnight fame , he clung to it with both hands and worried sometimes that it would go away again . |
| 13 | He was late yesterday , got a brand new vehicle and , yet I mean if , if was getting here at one and yesterday he got to ours at half past eleven , so erm , it was half past eleven that 's right , it was dead on , so erm , erm whatever 's he going to be like when it gets near to Christmas ? |
| 14 | Implicit in Paul 's description of another student is the idea that , although the student did n't do what was required , he got round it in such a clever and ingenious way , that he still deserved to do well in it ; indeed , Paul said that ‘ there is less understanding in lab work than there is ingenuity ’ . |
| 15 | She liked Peter 's smooth , clean skin , and his childhood-smelling hair , and the way he gazed at her with huge eyes without his glasses . |
| 16 | " He thinks of me as such . " |
| 17 | I was never going to be a replacement for his wife , just a diversion , and I hope that , if he thinks of me at all , it is with the same shiver of half-remembered pleasure with which I think of him . |
| 18 | Then he gallops towards it at terrific speed . |
| 19 | Whenever I go into his kennel it 's a toss-up whether he escapes or not ; he wins about one in fifteen times . |
| 20 | He gaped at me in silly bliss . |
| 21 | It was a foolish thing to do , she knew that a fraction of a second too late ; he cannoned into her with such force that she fell heavily to the ground . |
| 22 | No longer does he cling on to the status that he wrested from him with such arrogance and cruelty . |
| 23 | Mention is also made of his lease of the customs and the way ‘ he presided over them with singular liberality towards those of higher rank ’ . |
| 24 | He peered at her with little beady eyes , as though trying to guess from her expression how much she and her companion had heard . |
| 25 | When tonight those Tory MPs have all voted for the Prime Minister 's motion — for different and often conflicting reasons — the Prime Minister will claim that his motion has given him a mandate for Maastricht , when he stands for nothing at all . |
| 26 | Why had he looked at her like that ? |
| 27 | I used to think he behaved like someone with constant PMT — irrational and unpredictable to an alarming degree . |
| 28 | What can he do for anyone in that graveyard of a city except catch their rot and pass it on to us in the long run ? |
| 29 | As he says of himself at that juncture in his career , his quitting in Monaco was ‘ the climax to a situation which had existed all year , stemming … basically from a lack of interest and enthusiasm ’ . |
| 30 | In verse 27 we read ‘ And beginning at Moses and all the prophets , he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself . ’ |