Example sentences of "he [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We remember him most as the best diver ever to grace the Gorbals swimming pond . |
| 2 | Studying him now , dispassionately , without the emotional blindness of the aftermath of her accident , or the initial shock of finding that he was last night 's rescuer , it was like seeing him properly for the first time … |
| 3 | Unlike the previous soft glow , this new light had a sharpness about it , and it beckoned him upward like the guiding beam of a lighthouse in a dark stormy sea . |
| 4 | I sent him right in the opposite direction . |
| 5 | He had seen him only in the dense fog . |
| 6 | He carried him easily , placing him gently on the front seat of his car . |
| 7 | The Bible becomes his bastion against moral powerlessness , too , by reminding him constantly of the divine power that is available to overcome his weakness ( for " God is at work in you , both to will and to work for his good pleasure " ) . |
| 8 | The Labour party was changing too : Aneurin Bevan died at the age of 62 in July 1960 , and with him much of the reforming passion which had created the Welfare State . |
| 9 | Julie struck again , this time catching him just above the right eye , tearing the flesh . |
| 10 | But Fidway 's Cheltenham supporters can also claim a little bad luck — the winner Royal Gait bumped him just after the final flight . |
| 11 | ‘ I know what a hotel is , ’ she snapped , pulling him outside into the fresh air , ‘ but — ’ |
| 12 | She was breathless when she did catch up with him outside on the front doorstep . |
| 13 | They received him readily , and haled him away across the moist grass just touched in the hollows with rime . |
| 14 | Michael took the case from him and led him away to the hired car . |
| 15 | His sports and hobbies frequently took him away for the best part of the weekend ; work also ate into parts of Saturday and Sunday . |
| 16 | Interest to see how he plays David Lawrence when he gets his he 'll be , he can just slash him away on the off side . |
| 17 | He then spent three days at Fort King being questioned by people from the DIA , the FBI , the CIA and the DEA , and after that a bunch of US Marshals took him away into the Federal Witness Protection program . |
| 18 | I kept him away from the old man . |
| 19 | She had not killed him , she was leading him away from the open mouth of the cave and towards the distant city . |
| 20 | He grappled with Slatter , tearing him away from the motionless body . |
| 21 | His retirement took him away from the intense glare of publicity but he retained the admiration and affection of those who loved football — and those who knew little about the game but recognised a true gentleman and outstanding sportsman . |
| 22 | He hoped the Frenchmen would be content to drive him away from the high road rather than pursue and capture him , but as he quickened the mare 's pace , so the Frenchman spurred their own horses . |
| 23 | Rostov scanned the platform above for Alexei and saw him finally on the topmost section of the catwalk . |
| 24 | Botham had the first six wickets before Marshall and Baptiste held him up for while , Marshall being lucky not to be on the wrong end of a legendary catch when Don Topley , a groundstaff boy who went on to play for Essex , brilliantly caught him one-handed on the square leg boundary , only to put one foot over the rope . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been crazy about him ever since the first time I saw him . ’ |
| 26 | In the second stanza we find him still in the classical world , though this time it is the Greek rather than the Italian , and it begins by being the Greek seen not through the eyes of Frazer , but through the eyes of Keats . |
| 27 | ‘ He 's been my guardian spirit for years and it 's interesting to be forced to suppress all my own creativity in order to copy him slavishly to the last detail . |
| 28 | Then he noticed that a boy , who had passed him a few minutes before , had returned , and was now looking at him carefully from the opposite side of the road . |
| 29 | She was attracted to him partly by the little-boy-lost quality which she now finds so infuriating . |
| 30 | They formed , in theory , a private army of his own , for though Louis XIV paid them they were organised into regiments under Irish officers , but William preferred to have them confronting him openly on the far side of the Channel rather than lurking , disaffected , in his rear on the other side of the Irish Sea . |