Example sentences of "[v-ing] he [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But with his defence protecting him from any direct shots , Prudhoe steadily recovered , and he excelled himself after 69 minutes when Noel Blake powered a header goalwards from only six yards , but the indisputable player of the season somehow threw himself along his line to scramble the ball away . |
| 2 | ‘ They 're tearing him into four , ’ said Snodgrass . |
| 3 | So his Hebrew schooling thereby climaxed ; his public participation galvanising him to accelerated study . |
| 4 | Manucci was wary of him , fearing and disliking him in equal proportions : |
| 5 | ‘ Just keeping him in good condition for you , darling . ’ |
| 6 | In Shylock 's trial against Antonio , having preached towards Shylock for mercy in line 180 ‘ The quality of mercy is not strained ’ , she promptly forgets to show any mercy towards Shylock , stripping him of all his wealth , possessions and even religion . |
| 7 | ‘ The Secretary of State , in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 21(1) , ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) of the Oil and Gas ( Enterprise ) Act 1982 , and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf , hereby makes the following Order : ’ |
| 8 | And I did n't begin distrusting him until this trip . ’ |
| 9 | Aymer thus stood in the midst of a ramified genealogical network relating him to many families within the French nobility . |
| 10 | She had assumed his letters were the product of his lifelong rage , the festering cancer of his childhood , driving him into unreasonable behaviour , and a tendency to see the worst in anyone who was a friend of Charles . |
| 11 | He agreed to a televised debate , hosted by Dan Rather , with Cameron Nielson Sr. Farnham was still feisty on the show , but Cameron Nielson , looking younger now than his son , was as skilled as a great matador , and finally evened the score with his former tormentor , driving him to tearful contrition . |
| 12 | Then Edgar appears , disguised as a poor knight whose ‘ name is lost ; /By treason 's tooth bare-gnawn , and canker-bit ’ ( 121f. ) , and by defeating him in single combat , completes the exposure of Edmund , the bastard being displayed as a hypocrite and pretender ( 162–74 ) , who in a fair contest — according to Renaissance optimism about the superiority of right — is bound to be defeated by the legitimate . |
| 13 | It may be noticed that insensibility both to moral appeals and to appeals to one 's future interests , imprisonment within both ‘ I ’ and ‘ Now ’ , are often combined in the same person , and that the combination is widely accepted as the strongest criterion for classing him as ‘ psychopathic ’ and exempting him from moral judgment . |
| 14 | True , both the English and the Latin forms indicate he lived by the ash tree , but did they merely permit the taxatores to avoid confusing him with all the other Johns who lived in the same village ? |
| 15 | She popped a prawn ball into her mouth and bit on it , showering him with sweet and sour sauce . |
| 16 | The creation of man as centre was effected by defining him against other , now marginalized groups , such as women , the mad , or , we would add , the allegedly sub-human ‘ native ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ Get out of the way , ’ snapped Rohmer , pushing him to one side as he moved towards Pearce . |
| 18 | Judge Paul Clark read social inquiry reports on Marron , before sentencing him to 2 life jail terms . |
| 19 | Early in 1971 Waddell was found guilty of committing perjury at Meehan 's trial and in sentencing him to three years ' imprisonment Lord Cameron suggested that had he told the truth there , the Meehan jury might well have arrived at a different verdict . |
| 20 | All this will be done privately because there is nothing to be gained by castigating him in public . |
| 21 | And some go on to accuse him of tunnel-vision , saying they doubt whether he ever really wanted a peaceful settlement in the Gulf ; whether he now has a view of what American policy after the war should be ; and whether his single-minded determination to win the war is blinding him to other dangers . |
| 22 | If he did , was Henry going to be able to avoid serving him with any ? |
| 23 | Close your eyes and you just ca n't help imagining him in Dirty Dancing . |
| 24 | He should neither do damage to Mr. Jones , nor be slow in warning him of any impending danger ; fornication , marriage , gambling and the haunting of taverns or playhouses was strictly proscribed , and generally a monastic restraint was to be observed in all things . |
| 25 | Marcus was with him , his second sense acting as well as ever , warning him of any storm-troopers . |
| 26 | Both had been pardoned by Menem in October 1989 [ see pp. 36972-73 ] and subsequently cashiered , but Seineldin had been re-arrested and sentenced on Oct. 22 to 60 days ' military detention in San Martín de los Andes , 1,500 km from Buenos Aires , for bypassing the Army chain of command and writing directly to Menem warning him of growing discontent within the Army [ see p. 37853 ] . |
| 27 | All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching the faith and correcting error , for re-setting the direction of man 's life and training him in good living . |
| 28 | It was in meeting him on this ground that the British came closest to responding to him as a worthy adversary . |
| 29 | It was really pathetic , meeting him like that in the flower shop . |
| 30 | Abetting him in this is his childhood friend Yohei , a woebegone young husband much harassed by a matronly dragon of a mother-in-law . |