Example sentences of "[verb] he [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been outraged when her husband left for another woman , had addressed him with religious vehemence and spoken of hell , but as time passed she had realised that life was very much more pleasant without him , that he was generous with money , and so she had , not forgiven , but ceased to revile him ; and I know she found grim amusement in my stepmother 's harassed countenance and the irritating ways of her two small children . |
| 2 | WG is alleging that Alan Carr , who remained as Alkar 's chairman , overstated Alkar 's profits by anticipating payments and inflating stock , causing WG to overpay him in subsequent acquisition instalments . |
| 3 | She dropped to her knees , and unbuttoned him with quick busy fingers . |
| 4 | At a time when professional astronomers keep the sky under closer scrutiny than ever before , Alcock 's world-beating achievements rank him with great observers of the past , such as the famous French comet hunter Charles Messier . |
| 5 | She lifted her dark head high , determined to meet him on equal terms . |
| 6 | The internal structures and emotional attitudes of the party at this time coincided exactly with his own mental state , and provided him with intellectual strength and emotional security . |
| 7 | The touch of Asuryan was no longer so strong in his mind , and the Sword of Khaine no longer provided him with near limitless strength . |
| 8 | No , I did n't know him from bloody Adam ! |
| 9 | And she scolded him for frightening children Adam , six , Louise , four , and two-year-old Carl . |
| 10 | Thereafter he quickly became its most renowned liberal member , leading some opponents to accuse him of judicial activism . |
| 11 | So his Hebrew schooling thereby climaxed ; his public participation galvanising him to accelerated study . |
| 12 | Van Der Meulen 's austere but charming character was to stand him in good stead with the Saudis . |
| 13 | But the lessons he learned from those formative years were to stand him in good stead later on when he was to understand what it meant to be a director from first-hand experience . |
| 14 | Edward had not yet covered himself with military glory , but he had revealed a sureness of political judgement which was to stand him in good stead in the greater military endeavours that he embarked upon in 1337 . |
| 15 | Charles V , showing that good judgement of men which was to stand him in good stead throughout his reign , chose Bertrand du Guesclin to command his forces , and du Guesclin defeated Navarre at the battle of Cocherel in May 1364 . |
| 16 | It had done him no good , but the same quality was to stand him in good stead when he turned away from international relations to the many domestic difficulties which the war had engendered or highlighted . |
| 17 | Although he had recently been converted , it was Paisley 's conservative attack on unreliable unionist leaders which first drew him to Free Presbyterianism . |
| 18 | More than a hundred victims have now approached him for legal advice and doctors are still seeing new cases six weeks after chryptosporidium was first identified in the Farmoor reservoir . |
| 19 | Manucci was wary of him , fearing and disliking him in equal proportions : |
| 20 | Houghton 's wife reported him to naval security for being in possession of large sums of cash . |
| 21 | On the absurdity of his get rich quick schemes , which involved him with shady financiers . |
| 22 | Ceauşescu 's distancing himself from his fellow countrymen , whether for reasons of security or hygiene , meant that his daily life involved him in regular contact with relatively few people . |
| 23 | I caught him by cute observation ; |
| 24 | This enables the interviewer to burrow much further into the complexities of some situations and may well introduce him to relevant factors which had not been thought of before at all . |
| 25 | Its aim is to do something in the life of the person who reads it , as well as to capture his aesthetic interest and supply him with historical and theological information . |
| 26 | ‘ Just keeping him in good condition for you , darling . ’ |
| 27 | A few says later the Shah sought assurances from the US Embassy that he was still welcome in the United States cabled Rabat to say , " we assured the Shah publicly as well as in private messages that he would be welcome in the US should he choose to go there , and that there should be bo doubt whatsoever as to our willingness to receive ( him ) and provide him with appropriate protection " . |
| 28 | Despite the principle of ‘ unity of command ’ , the recommendations submitted by the political officer on fitness and promotion through the Directorate 's confidential channels provide him with real prerogatives over the ‘ real ’ officers who surround him . |
| 29 | It 's a promise I expect him to equal . |
| 30 | She fixed him with anxious eyes . |