Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] he [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I promised to set him free . ’ |
| 2 | THUGS poured petrol over a schoolboy and tried to set him alight after he refused to go shoplifting . |
| 3 | Neil had petrol poured over him by thugs who then tried to set him alight . |
| 4 | One MP even tried to put him right last night . |
| 5 | He commiserated with Blair over his failure with certain seeds and promised to send him rare plants . |
| 6 | An accident : The man who died when friends tried to stop him drink-driving . |
| 7 | He slumped to the floor and she tried to drag him clear . |
| 8 | They helped to make him unmistakable , which he liked . |
| 9 | She 'd caught him off-guard again , because this was n't what he was expecting . |
| 10 | They always seemed to find him attractive , and were prepared to make excuses for his more glaring defects . ’ |
| 11 | Now she 'd made him angry again . |
| 12 | He were parked up there well every coalman I 've pulled him about this coke stuff and I 'd seen him other day and I pulled him , explained that I were going over on April first |
| 13 | And his face was lined , though at first she 'd thought him young . |
| 14 | I 'd called him Chinless Wonder on the same basis that regular enlisted men in the Army call Sandhurst graduates ‘ Ruperts ’ . |
| 15 | Deeply suspicious of his motives , she treated him with all the most obvious display of distrust of which she was capable , but her efforts seemed to leave him cold , so she decided there was only one course left open to her . |
| 16 | There she 'd found him alone — pretending to have forgotten it was Christmas — all the rest of the family having tactfully cried off . |
| 17 | Unless they 'd taken him captive . |
| 18 | They 'd kept him awake for many an hour prior to an op . |
| 19 | No , and I had I er I had tried to appeal to him to be quiet , he said well I 've got to build this shed , I said well it do n't have to be during the night when other people are trying to sleep , he said well that 's up to them , and he started hammering again , while I was talking to him , and then I kept on and on and eventually , I think while I was talking to him I 'd kept him quiet while I was talking to him . |
| 20 | The tide had risen a foot above the usual high water mark , and when they came to cut him free in the morning , they found him hanging on the outer wall — drowned . |
| 21 | Her remote yet detached look seemed to make him uncomfortable . |
| 22 | ‘ The goal Eric scored makes him attractive to me , ’ said the Leeds manager . |
| 23 | Edward retreated to Brussels , but in the winter of 1339–40 he achieved an important diplomatic success in Flanders when he persuaded James van Artevelde to enter into an alliance with him under which Artevelde recognized his title to the French throne and agreed to give him military aid . |
| 24 | He struggled on alone , as against a blank wall of darkness and silence that blocked his light , stifled his breath , and threatened to make him mad . |
| 25 | Paramedics fought to keep him alive but he died an hour later at the John Radcliffe Hospital . |
| 26 | Mr Smith started to give him new clothes but soon realized that William had no wish to be clean , as on the next visit the new suit would be filthy . |
| 27 | I immediately started giving him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and heart massage . |
| 28 | ‘ When he was in a reflective or depressive mood , you knew to leave him alone although his manners were such that if anyone came to him to talk , he would stand up to talk to them . ’ |
| 29 | I followed him down from 2,000 feet — put carb heat on — I was descending as quickly as the helicopter ; we managed to keep him visual . |
| 30 | Pitman yanked him back on to a true line and managed to steer him clear of the rails , but the two hundred yards he had left to run seemed like two hundred miles , and Red Rum was now only five lengths back . |