Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] he [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Sun Chariot emphasised the spreading cloak of Arab domination , then the Cambridgeshire proved there is still a place for the smaller owner when Jeremy Glover sent out Rambo 's Hall , the only horse to have won for him this season , to gain an equally facile success . |
| 2 | He had proved that he had not , after all , thrown away his how-to-train manual , despite the fact that only Rambo 's Hall has won for him this season . |
| 3 | They could have looked after him more . |
| 4 | It was perhaps one slight rejection of the conformity that was expected of him that night . |
| 5 | By the time she had closed her room door behind her , though , while there was still some part of her that did n't want to be attracted to him some other part of her was arguing , Why should n't she be attracted to him ? |
| 6 | He remembered how Yuan had come to him that night , pale and frightened , woken by a terrible dream . |
| 7 | Could it be , as Kimura ( 1977b ) suggests , that : brain regions considered to he important for symbolic-language processes might better be conceived as important for the production of motor sequences which happen to lend themselves readily to communication ? |
| 8 | Have you looked at him this morning ? |
| 9 | I do n't know how Wheeler knows him except that Charles has a cottage on the Cumbermound estate so perhaps he 's come across him that way . |
| 10 | This is analogous to the claim Gandhi makes in an address he gave to Christian missionaries , namely , that ‘ many men who have never heard the name of Jesus Christ or have even rejected the official interpretation of Christianity would probably , if Jesus came into our midst today … be owned by him more than many of us … ’ |
| 11 | Baxter 's influential friends had secured for him four of the ablest barristers in the land , but it was obvious from the beginning of the trial that Jeffries had already decided what the verdict would be . |
| 12 | Nelson Mandela is the kind of celebrity that agents , publishers and film-makers dream of : a man whose seventieth birthday party filled Wembley , who outstrips Mother Theresa as a universal symbol of virtue and who has backstreets named after him 6,000 miles from home is not a difficult commodity to package . |
| 13 | Premiere , the favourite , behaved like a horse that had had a fuss made of him all his life ; almost , I thought fancifully , as arrogantly as Sheridan . |
| 14 | And indeed , where was Brother Jerome , and why had no word been heard from him and nothing seen of him all this time ? |
| 15 | She had unflinchingly wrenched the arrow out of his arm as if ‘ t was all in a day 's work , and had argued with him all through the operation and while bandaging his wound later . |
| 16 | In relation to Jesus , popular tradition has imposed upon him one of the oldest and most archetypal of functions — that of the eternal adversary , the dark opposite , the embodiment of all the vices and iniquities that the hero is not . |
| 17 | Finally , infuriated by her own weakness where Adam was concerned , she had turned on him one evening in the club , shaking his hand from her hair as though scorched by his touch . |
| 18 | The invaders assembled at Stornoway were now divided by a bitter quarrel over whether or not they should move on to the mainland , only ended when one of the Earl Marischal 's supposed subordinates , William Murray , Marquis of Tullibardine , suddenly produced a commission granted to him two years before by James which appointed him Commander-in-Chief of all his forces in Scotland . |
| 19 | His thoughts were spinning , mulling over what Joseph had said to him earlier . |
| 20 | ‘ There is nothing I would not do for you , ’ he replied , and all at once frustrated beyond enduring , ‘ For pity 's sake , woman , ’ he implored , and , reminding her of a comment she had made to him that delightful mealtime in Bečov , ‘ give me a straight answer to a straight question — are you going to marry me ? ’ |
| 21 | Three times he recalled his favourite , Piers Gaveston , from an exile imposed on him first by Edward I and then by the barons ; the Ordinances , to which the king was sworn in 1311 and again in 1317 , he treated with contempt ; the expulsion of the Despensers , father and son , was reversed almost before it was enforced . |
| 22 | The Australian case of McKay ( 1957 ) involved a chicken farmer who , when he found an intruder stealing chickens , shot at him five times , killing him . |
| 23 | He remembered those mad , red eyes which had glared at him earlier that day through the grille , and those great death-bearing , slavering jaws . |
| 24 | The instrument made by him 20 years ago was put in the wrong case after a studio session with singer Judy Tzuke — and it vanished en route to France where she is doing concerts . |
| 25 | She had dreamt about him that night , she remembered , and in her dream he had looked at her with a smile of recognition . |
| 26 | In his office high up in the twenty-five storey building that is 550 Fashion Avenue , mecca of the New York fashion industry , Hugo Varna sat at his desk and fiddled with the executive toy Sally had bought for him last Christmas . |
| 27 | Though Bowler came from a similar background to Ricky Stride , he was more responsive to what Minton had to teach him and their conversations opened for him new areas of interest , in art , books and theatre . |
| 28 | Even when she was tiny she had n't really thought of him that way , and when she was older , about thirteen , she had secretly been terribly proud in front of the other girls when Georg , who had never seemed to go through a spotty adolescent phase like other boys , used to wait for her outside school so that they could walk up the mountain road together . |
| 29 | Two years earlier , experiences in Vienna on the verge of civil war had awakened in him vehement , if premature , anti-communism . |
| 30 | Daisy Yates showed me the postcard she had had from him that morning . |