Example sentences of "[verb] he [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was she who was the essential element in the alchemy which had absolved him and promised him such a refreshment of security and calm here . |
| 2 | Instead , they got themselves into a thoroughly embarrassing mess , saying they accepted Gatting 's statement that nothing improper had taken place but sacking him all the same . |
| 3 | ‘ They helped him many a time to keep his head above water or else we should have been in a poor way . ’ |
| 4 | He said , with great politeness , that he would be in the buttery , always supposing anyone wanted to know , and Tybion the Tusk got up and helped him open the door , just to be friendly . |
| 5 | From Henry James , The Pupil The poor young man hesitated and procrastinated : it cost him such an effort to broach the subject of terms , to speak of money to a person who spoke only of feelings and , as it were , of the aristocracy ( 1 ) . |
| 6 | His voice grated , but he spoke out clearly , perhaps even a little louder than was natural because it cost him such an effort to get it out at all . |
| 7 | Robert Forbes pulled out before his partners were indicted , a manoeuvre which cost him all the accumulated wealth of Lorna Lewis 's golden days . |
| 8 | Lucier had taken himself up to the gallery of the chapel — a climb which cost him all the strength that was left him . |
| 9 | It amazed him such a slip of a girl could have such passion in her , and by then he had noticed the perfect contours of her body which neither the black dress nor the prim white apron could conceal . |
| 10 | That first act of over-familiarity had secured him all the credit he would ever need and besides he felt wild , restless , a mood in which he knew himself all too prone to indiscretion . |
| 11 | ‘ I helped you by clearing all the leaves in the yard , ’ she told him half a dozen times , ‘ and I got a cold while I was doing it . |
| 12 | They thought he was a bit peculiar , maybe , but they 'd accepted him all the same . |
| 13 | Do n't harass him all the time Jessica you make him neurotic ! |
| 14 | I could give him that every night . |
| 15 | I do n't think he has that many visitors and I feel we should give him all the support we can . ’ |
| 16 | fuck it I 'll give him all the easy ones do n't I ? |
| 17 | ‘ Anyway , I am sure he would not find anyone who would give him such a good time . |
| 18 | The next time she saw him , she would give him such a tongue-lashing that his ears would ring for a week ! |
| 19 | In addition to the beef tea and arrowroot , as much as he will take , we 'll give him half an ounce of brandy every two hours , and twenty drops of laudanum every four . " |
| 20 | If we would give him half an hour to get over the shock of his resurrection he would quietly sit down with a piece of paper ( the back of a bigger envelope , I suppose ) and would work out the relevant design formulae . |
| 21 | I swore to my mother , when she was dying , that if I ever found my half-brother , I would do him all the harm I could . |
| 22 | In 1964 , he moved to Trinidad to become Dean of Students , which was a promotion , at the UWI campus there , continuing the work he had begun in Kingston by stressing to the students the importance of discipline , physical fitness , responsibility and such like — in other words , all the values that had made him such a successful captain . |
| 23 | I did not watch him all the way but looked for another target . |
| 24 | ‘ I will show him all the information we have . ’ |
| 25 | I might go and see him all the same , just to tell him as I 've told you . ’ |
| 26 | Well I could see him all the time see . |
| 27 | I make fun of him , I attack him all the time , but he senses when I 'm ‘ soft ’ . |
| 28 | He accepted the direction of a United States public-relations expert to help him present a favourable impression of the revolution , and was described by a Department of State official as ‘ a man on his best behaviour ’ throughout the visit ( Memo for the president from Christian A. Herter , 23 April 1959 , US Declassified , 1976 , 58F ) . |
| 29 | It is when she feels compassion , rather than revulsion , for the salamander and kisses him that the spell breaks . |
| 30 | She must call him in the morning , give him all the names she had found , and let the police handle any investigation . |