Example sentences of "[vb pp] he [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Someone 's tipped him off that Sabine Jourdain was painting Durance 's pictures . |
| 2 | Some memory must have stabbed him at that moment . |
| 3 | Nothing in our four days on the felucca with this sullen boy had prepared us for this , as nothing could have prepared him for that afternoon in Asyut . |
| 4 | He loathed the sterile ritual of inspections , and this poor devil in his untimely end had saved him from that . |
| 5 | He said that ‘ the powers that be ’ had presented him with a summons and the Protestant people had presented him with that book and he thought a parallel could be drawn between the two . |
| 6 | Ramsay had not seen him since that day at Musselburgh when the good Regent Moray died and Seton had been sent off to Fife to try to hamper Balliol 's landing at Kinghorn , a gallant but unsuccessful endeavour in which Seton had been wounded . |
| 7 | Nobody has seen him since that day . |
| 8 | Have you , have you seen him since that time when you said to him about coming . |
| 9 | That long white robe I had seen him in that night was a sort of hospital gown . |
| 10 | I tried to think of when I 'd seen him after that , apart from when we got our degrees — him proud and posing for the family album , me drunk and disorderly . |
| 11 | How on earth could she have accused him over that conversation with Salvo ? |
| 12 | His grandad had told him about that , years later , when he was about fifteen . |
| 13 | Although the words were his the images were taken from those things Kraal and Minch had told him about that distant place . |
| 14 | I 've told him about that . |
| 15 | She would have admired him for that , once . |
| 16 | With Mr Crump 's wealth … his dreams of money diverted his energy from the sexual lust which had gripped him after that effervescent meeting with the Crumps . |
| 17 | Those who had known him from that earlier period , however , were less than enthusiastic about his elevation . |
| 18 | A strange fierce joy had filled him after that , and he had n't really heard anything Ashton or Smith had said to him . |
| 19 | His attitude has changed from being one of someone superior punishing someone who had insulted him to that of him being a bully and chasing down a poor wretch . |
| 20 | He would have preferred , I knew , to keep them at home , but Ruth , his wife , had overruled him in that , as she did in quite a few other matters . |
| 21 | I 've asked him about that and what he said is that er , he was saving up and he was going tax the vehicle as soon he was able to do so but he did n't have the funds and er , to do so at , at that time . |
| 22 | I 've asked him about that and what he said is that er he was saving up and he was going to tax the vehicle as soon as he was able to do so , but he did n't have the funds er to do so at , at that time . |
| 23 | If politicians were normally able to manipulate freeholders and councillors by judicious use of their patronage powers , it is equally clear that they were on occasion themselves manipulated , and for all David Scott 's obvious embarrassment over the Robinson affair , it is evident that he felt unable to show much resentment towards the man who had led him into that predicament . |
| 24 | I would never have encouraged him like that . |
| 25 | Van Gelder also knew it , Denholm had reassured him on that point . |
| 26 | When he stood there was blood all over the white shirt his mother had dressed him in that morning . |
| 27 | Fate had branded him on that October night as a gangster and a street-fighter . |
| 28 | ( But Gillecrist , who might have advised him about that , was dead . ) |