Example sentences of "[verb] he [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Watching the final scenes of Jean Harlow 's last film , the ones shot after she had died , defeated him in this way . |
| 2 | I want him in this evening . |
| 3 | We ca n't trust him after this . ’ |
| 4 | A man describing himself as being in the public relations business had phoned Julian Klein 's office and made an appointment to meet him on this day , but had not divulged the nature of his business . |
| 5 | He 'd been talking to these erm Greek blokes and they invited him into this bar for erm |
| 6 | He would be going out soon , but an umbilical cord would still tie him to this house of death . |
| 7 | ‘ Did you know him before this ? ’ |
| 8 | For Prothero is the demon-king of the Poundian pantomime , ever since Pound cast him for this role by printing , at the end of his essay on De Gourmont — originally in the Little Review , then in Instigations ( 1920 ) — the letter which Prothero wrote him in October 1914 : |
| 9 | Why did they need him for this job ? |
| 10 | The fisherman 's wife , however , chastised him for this simple request and returned to the shore , there to harangue the Golden Fish with her demands for jewels , wealth and status . |
| 11 | No one would hear her , but she could n't face having to find him among this unfamiliar crowd . |
| 12 | ‘ I am concerned to find him like this , ’ he said , sliding away from the immovable barrier . |
| 13 | ‘ He swears that the Brigadier and the Brigade Major use his establishment and supply him with this vital information . |
| 14 | An obstacle to Buchan 's transfer was that he would lose income from his Sunderland shop , and the deal was delayed for two months while ‘ under-the-counter ’ terms were agreed to compensate him for this loss . |
| 15 | It was what she had wanted to do since she met him — touch him like this , feel his naked body against her . |
| 16 | He rather hoped his wife would wake and catch him like this , unshaven , hair greasy and uncombed , and as he stood beside the bed he farted quite loudly , as if to remind her that she deserved someone as awful as him . |
| 17 | This is Brando 's first film since 1980 and it 's good that his old campaigning fire was still sufficiently there under the millions and the sloth to pull him into this . |
| 18 | He fell about laughing when his agent phoned him with this news . |
| 19 | To those who encountered him at this time , he seemed to grow more thick-set and muscular , endowed already with a public presence . |
| 20 | His familiarity with every stick and stone of it probably helped him to this preference . |
| 21 | And I did n't begin distrusting him until this trip . ’ |
| 22 | I decided not to inform him of this . |
| 23 | and he 's having a punch up with his brother and he keeps letting his brother hit him he 's got this holographic image he , who accompanies him with this fucking computer , and working out what 's going on why they 're there sort of thing cos he goes back in into to different times to help these people out |
| 24 | Surely no one would need to consult him at this hour ? |
| 25 | It was just basically , one of those things , and Abbey paid out , because they said we would have done it , we would have accepted him on this anyway . |
| 26 | If it is then asked what drove him to this desperate end , Zande will refer you to the particular tensions and stresses of his life . |
| 27 | Not going to tackle him about this business of Dora 's golf-club , are you ? ’ |
| 28 | His education had not prepared him for this in any way . |
| 29 | Nothing in his many years ' service had prepared him for this sort of situation . |
| 30 | Again , Karr had prepared him for this . |