Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] he [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it was the realisation of his disability that decided the man to go for him first . |
| 2 | But he was sickened by Ayrton Senna 's attack on Alain Prost , the French driver he has just signed to drive for him next season . |
| 3 | I do n't know what I 'm going to think about if I 'm not going to worry about him all the time . |
| 4 | But , ’ said Terry darkly , leaning towards me , ‘ this is something you should know , if you 're lucky enough to work with him one day . ’ |
| 5 | It is an imaginative reaching out to grasp the reality of God , to encounter and respond to his will , and to find in him living truth . |
| 6 | When bidding farewell to Porua , I tried to extract from him some word of praise for my activities on behalf of his paper . |
| 7 | The difficulties of this task are compounded by a natural unwillingness to admit any independent criteria for judging a particular reading , since Althusser 's aim is to interpret Marx in his own terms , rather than to impose on him any independent ( and ideological ) standards . |
| 8 | They moved north to Scotland for an intensive period of training , and he found himself in command of a section of young volunteers , many of whom were to serve with him later in the Middle East . |
| 9 | She would have to listen to him first . |
| 10 | He compounded this appalling error of judgement by standing up to applaud the winners , a misguided attempt at gallantry which resulted in me trying to run out of the stadium and refusing to talk to him all the way home . |
| 11 | Instead he sent out 12th man Paul Reiffel to cover for him whole he rang chairman of selectors Lawrie Sawle to vent his feelings about the news he had been given that morning . |
| 12 | ‘ He wants Perdita to play for him next year . |
| 13 | The pupils just wanted to stare at him all day . |
| 14 | It was impossible not to stare at him all the time . |
| 15 | She was glad of this opportunity to look at him unobserved . |
| 16 | She should have refused to go with him last night and insisted on staying in the car park . |
| 17 | " And he wants me to go with him this time — as his driver . " |
| 18 | Sally-Anne was too busy eating to want to spar with him further . |
| 19 | He had been uncharacteristically relaxed and jovial during the meal , which had both surprised and pleased Cleo , who 'd anticipated having to apologise for him all the time . |
| 20 | Beneath the fabric of his borrowed shirt , her fingers trapped and twisted his skin in a burning pinch that told him she intended to deal with him later . |
| 21 | I 'll be able to tap into him any time . |
| 22 | She had to send for him New Year 's Day for Vince ! |
| 23 | As well as the above , John Wylie would like you to be available to share with him two sections on Saturday , 11.20–12.45 : ‘ Ending sufferings ’ page 3 , and 7.00–9.00 : ‘ Welcoming diversity ’ page 6 . |
| 24 | Tom thought that once Willie had finished his final Reading Book he would n't want him to read to him any more , but Willie loved to sit back and listen to his voice and so the stories continued . |
| 25 | ‘ This is one I used to try to read to him last year , but ’ — her voice sounded almost shy — ‘ I ai n't too hot a reader myself , as you can probably guess . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , she was a handsome woman and very competent and Modi persuaded her to pose for him nude . |
| 27 | It was there , while the starlings chattered outside his tall windows , there in Robert 's amiable clutter of a room , that I appeared to confess to him some unpalatable and , indeed , extremely degrading ‘ facts ’ about myself . |
| 28 | He was the only father you 've ever known , so it is n't a crime to refer to him that way ! |
| 29 | ( 1 ) The defendants were the plaintiff 's agents for the sale of Caliban and as such owed him contractual and fiduciary duties to disclose to him all material matters concerning the sale so that he would be able to make an informed judgment as to what price to accept for Caliban. ( 2 ) The defendants were also under a fiduciary duty not to put themselves in a position where their duties to the plaintiff were in conflict with their own interests or those of any other of their clients . |
| 30 | She found it most distasteful to think of him owing money to the bingo-playing woman in the basement . |