Example sentences of "he [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told him about the latest developments from Zurich while dressing the wound , filling him in on the backgrounds of Hendrique and Milchan as well as relaying Philpott 's instructions . |
| 2 | Will Carling , the captain of England , is travelling there for the first time and the selectors decided not to weigh him down with the cares of office . |
| 3 | It was clear to me that his own personal preoccupations , such as had been conveyed to me by Father D'Arcy and hinted at by others , had cut him off from the workings of certain institutions — his unawareness of Collingwood 's preferment was a case in point — and again he wanted to be informed what the young were thinking . |
| 4 | She 'd have had him back to the manufacturers for radical restructuring . |
| 5 | The first leg of his travel plans will take him back to the elders of the church there , with some of the converts from Asia Minor and Greece , with a love gift for the relief of the hardship amongst the Christians . |
| 6 | Loretta put down her book , grasped him by the shoulders , and heaved him back into the arms of his tormentors . |
| 7 | Long periods of enforced solitude as a semi-invalid threw him back on the resources of his own imagination , and after reading Hindoo Holiday , by J. R. Ackerley [ q.v. ] , |
| 8 | Yet for a short time his arrival at Oxford threw him back on the hunkers of his class and family . |
| 9 | They were all studiously avoiding meeting his gaze , though he thought they were watching him out of the sides of their eyes . |
| 10 | The sooner I get him out of the hands of that teenage vixen , the happier I shall be ! ’ |
| 11 | He lifted his head , his face grey with outrage , and firmly closed the book before he looked round at all the carefully respectful countenances ringing him round like the pales of a fence , a barrier through which he found the only dignified way , at someone else 's expense . |