Example sentences of "[to-vb] he [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WG is alleging that Alan Carr , who remained as Alkar 's chairman , overstated Alkar 's profits by anticipating payments and inflating stock , causing WG to overpay him in subsequent acquisition instalments . |
| 2 | Esau is coming to meet him with four hundred men . |
| 3 | She lifted her dark head high , determined to meet him on equal terms . |
| 4 | Knight asked Aung San to meet him on 9 August ; he looked ‘ very thin' . |
| 5 | A man describing himself as being in the public relations business had phoned Julian Klein 's office and made an appointment to meet him on this day , but had not divulged the nature of his business . |
| 6 | I would n't have gone to meet him under any circumstances . |
| 7 | He had told his informant to meet him at nine o'clock . |
| 8 | All we know is that Nicola was due to meet him at nine o'clock and that he did n't turn up . |
| 9 | I 'm glad to meet him at last . ’ |
| 10 | He expected Caterina to be there to tell him that Rosalba absolutely refused to meet him in such compromising circumstances and considered him a blackguard and a monster even to suggest such an assignation . |
| 11 | I was to meet him in later years , but I am sure that the reaction in the chapel of all those within earshot , and particularly of the School Chaplain himself , exactly mirrored ‘ The Guardsman who dropped his rifle on parade ’ and the man who lit his cigar before the Royal toast together with his great friend who ordered a double Scotch in the grand pump-room at Bath . |
| 12 | It was Urquhart , telling her to meet him in half an hour outside the Dorchester Hotel in Park Lane . |
| 13 | Thereafter he quickly became its most renowned liberal member , leading some opponents to accuse him of judicial activism . |
| 14 | Champion picked up his whip and waved it at his mount to encourage him over those last few yards , and Aldaniti responded gamely . |
| 15 | Van Der Meulen 's austere but charming character was to stand him in good stead with the Saudis . |
| 16 | But the lessons he learned from those formative years were to stand him in good stead later on when he was to understand what it meant to be a director from first-hand experience . |
| 17 | Edward had not yet covered himself with military glory , but he had revealed a sureness of political judgement which was to stand him in good stead in the greater military endeavours that he embarked upon in 1337 . |
| 18 | Charles V , showing that good judgement of men which was to stand him in good stead throughout his reign , chose Bertrand du Guesclin to command his forces , and du Guesclin defeated Navarre at the battle of Cocherel in May 1364 . |
| 19 | It had done him no good , but the same quality was to stand him in good stead when he turned away from international relations to the many domestic difficulties which the war had engendered or highlighted . |
| 20 | She wanted to watch him and then say something to find out how hard it would be to retrieve him from such self-preservation . |
| 21 | He CALLED twice at the station — only to be sent away with a flea in his ear — and LEFT his name and company address so detectives knew where to find him at all times . |
| 22 | No one would hear her , but she could n't face having to find him among this unfamiliar crowd . |
| 23 | ‘ I am concerned to find him like this , ’ he said , sliding away from the immovable barrier . |
| 24 | The inclusion of this clause enables him to recover all loss , however remote , ( provided he can prove causation ) suffered as a result of the sellers 's wrongful acts , since the seller has , by the clause , undertaken an express obligation to compensate him for such loss . |
| 25 | An obstacle to Buchan 's transfer was that he would lose income from his Sunderland shop , and the deal was delayed for two months while ‘ under-the-counter ’ terms were agreed to compensate him for this loss . |
| 26 | This is Brando 's first film since 1980 and it 's good that his old campaigning fire was still sufficiently there under the millions and the sloth to pull him into this . |
| 27 | On his return from Scotland he had asked the French government to provide him with 18,000 men for a fresh attempt and had then visited Spain to seek help from Ferdinand VI , but , like Louis XV , the Spanish king was non-committal . |
| 28 | His crooked smile was very much in evidence and Matey could have told her that since her arrival Dr Neil had been happier than she had seen him for a long time — there had been fewer backslidings towards the ‘ nasty whisky ’ since McAllister had appeared in his life to provide him with such rich amusement . |
| 29 | He began proceedings against the council in the county court alleging breach of their statutory duty and seeking an injunction ordering them to fulfil their duty to provide him with suitable accommodation and damages . |
| 30 | He does not have a conscience , it is our job to provide him with that . |