Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He believed the order had been given to kill him by the DO . |
| 2 | ‘ It reminds me of my dear father one day at Sandwich , ’ she was saying , ‘ when we were picnicking on the sands and we had arranged to meet him at the nineteenth hole . |
| 3 | At the age of sixteen , this writer had slept with an older , married friend of her Father ; she had arranged to meet him in a churchyard after dinner and they made love on a tombstone . |
| 4 | Another time , I had arranged to meet him in the Naafi , a popular meeting place on the camp , at 5pm . |
| 5 | He led them into the kitchen , chatting to Blanche and Dexter as if they were house guests rather than police officers who had come to interview him about a murder . |
| 6 | Stuart is too good to be kept on the sidelines at a time when England have looked to include him in the B squad as the next stage of his international career . |
| 7 | Since the war both groups have come to see him as an unnecessary evil . |
| 8 | It suddenly crossed my mind that perhaps he thought I had come to see him on a professional level , that I was in need of spiritual help or whatever . |
| 9 | They held him in a detention camp for three months , the Germans , and then the officers had come to see him from the SS . |
| 10 | She had n't really expected to see him at the funeral , though she had looked forward to the possibility with unseemly excitement considering the solemnity of the occasion . |
| 11 | An upbringing designed to carry him through changes of regime and frontier , possible loss of every worldly possession , and , in the event of crisis , protracted stays with distant relatives ensconced wherever the aristocracy was tolerated , from the Polish border to Hyde Park Gate , in short , a good European background , had made him totally self-contained and able with sunny smile and the formal handshake of the gymnase to set almost anybody at their ease , even the flustered Nenna . |
| 12 | It was clear that she had not expected to find him in the room . |
| 13 | Marco has been brought up by his rather in a way designed to fit him for the future . |
| 14 | Other Lancashire businessmen watching his progress had come to respect him as a red-hot entrepreneur and ruthless opponent in business dealings , for whom profit was the consideration that overrode every other . |
| 15 | The landlord 's wife was expected to accompany him on the trip to Head Office . |
| 16 | The popularity of Taylor 's devotional books , his sufferings for the Church , his piety , engaging manner , and contacts in influential Royalist circles might have been expected to qualify him for high preferment in the restored Church in 1660 . |
| 17 | Sir Colin is expected to succeed him as chairman . |
| 18 | with Mr Ross and is expected to succeed him as chairman , stressed that the board changes come after a review process started last September . |
| 19 | Furthermore , he had always related to her on an intellectual level , unlike the majority of men she knew who saw her as just another pretty face ( to try a line on ) , and although she and Whitlock never mixed socially , only ever meeting up at work , she had come to regard him as one of her few real friends . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , the discipline itself , especially in the United States , has resolved to regard him as a leading advocate of scientific method and by subscribing to this interpretation we have at least avoided causing confusion . |
| 21 | And when the King thought it a fit season , he spake to him and said , that Doña Ximena Gomez , the daughter of the Count whom he had slain , had come to ask him for her husband , and would forgive him her father 's death ; wherefore he besought him to think it good to take her to be his wife , in which case he would show him great favour . |
| 22 | a dilettante artist , a protégé of John Jarndyce 's who affects a childlike gaiety and simplicity but is really a shameless sponger ; his apparent innocence of worldly concerns is sedulously fostered to relieve him of any common responsibilities . |
| 23 | Thankfully , he found St Erconwald 's fairly deserted except for Watkin to whom he gave strict instructions about the custody of the church , and Ranulf the rat-catcher who had come to remind him of his promise that if a Guild of Rat-Catchers were founded , St Erconwald 's could be their chantry church . |
| 24 | The sentries had been primed to admit him without challenge , Alexei noted , and as soon as his escort had dismounted a trooper wearing the gorget of a provost came out of the gatehouse and led them away towards the stables . |
| 25 | Franco conducted it on his own terms , however , which meant that it was so gradual as to be barely perceptible at times , and designed to show him in the most favourable light possible . |
| 26 | He had then sought to usurp him by demanding an EC inquiry into French 's affairs and by getting himself , though contrary to Rule as a non-sailor , elected as Delegate to the 1911 Annual General Meeting with a demand that he should be made Glasgow secretary in French 's place , only breaking away when he was not permitted to attend . |
| 27 | Then slowly her sense of humour began to reassert itself and she was able to laugh , remembering the look of amazement on his handsome , hawklike face when she 'd threatened to report him for sexual harassment . |
| 28 | After four years in the explosives division , his management potential had been spotted and moves were made to launch him on a management development programme of rotation to broaden his experience . |
| 29 | Various accusations , including that of treason , were thereupon levelled against Stratford and attempts were made to exclude him from the parliament which met subsequently . |
| 30 | ‘ His condition was obvious and they must have decided to pull him on the way home . ’ |