Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] he [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | While the shame of the public defamation felt by the typical Nazi lawyer was allegedly almost enough to drive him to suicide , reactions of astonishment , disbelief , anxiety , and criticism can be read between the lines of the responses from judges and the justice administration , and the most outspoken reaction was that the Führer had been badly misinformed and his ‘ wholly unexpected attack on justice ’ much ‘ discussed and criticized ’ . |
| 3 | And if I handle all with my own hands , and keep the prince clear of it — though he knows my mind , and it is his mind , too — I do so to preserve him from harassment by those who will hear of nothing less than Owen 's head on London Bridge . |
| 4 | Obviously , he sees Britain as the sweatshop of the world — he almost said as much — and , if we are unlucky enough to find him in office for more than a few more months , we may find ourselves taking the place previously occupied by the Soviet Union , as Upper Volta with rockets . |
| 5 | The painful blow was hard enough to knock him off balance , and he tucked in his right shoulder , hitting the ground in a flying break-fall . |
| 6 | Not bad enough , he judged , for him to stay in bed but bad enough to keep him at home . |
| 7 | This more dynamic model of natural relationships would become an integral part of Darwin 's thinking , but it was not by itself enough to convert him to evolutionism . |
| 8 | He thinks it 's because of the sausages that people do n't like him enough to ask him to tea ; but it is n't really . |
| 9 | She had him completely relaxed , and wallowing in her fellation , as she worked patiently to bring him to orgasm . |
| 10 | It was a disappointment for his many fans not to see him in action . |
| 11 | We could meet up with them in public and I could n't guarantee not to strangle him on sight . |
| 12 | YOUNG Darren Ferguson 's ability persuaded his dad Alex not to sell him to Forest — and now he 's the bright spot in United 's poor start to the season |
| 13 | She was always careful while here to cast her inquiries in the form of statements and she said , choosing her words meticulously , ‘ I expect Jasper was a bit off-colour this morning so you felt it wiser not to send him to school . |
| 14 | At Heathrow I 'd been asked specifically not to tranquillise him in case of the possibility of side-effects which could have seriously affected his future stud career . |
| 15 | No well I was , I was just telling him something and I said I 'm not telling you till er ten thirty just to keep him in suspense . |
| 16 | However , his wife pointed out that Katy seemed no longer to approach him for attention — instead she had began to play by herself in very stereotyped and restricted ways . |
| 17 | Even Peter Thorneycroft , the veteran proto-monetarist of 1958 whom she had made Party Chairman , proved to be a ‘ one-nation ’ man at heart , and she was eventually to sack him in favour of a little-tried new favourite , Cecil Parkinson , the Paymaster-General . |
| 18 | Because Kate , for all her faults real and imagined , was the only person ever to take him at face value . |
| 19 | Temples and shrines were built to his memory , and a cult grew up to venerate him as founder of the Empire . |
| 20 | His father 's response was not only to stop sending him money but also to bar him from returning to Zimbala until he renounced his Socialist beliefs . |
| 21 | The man he relied on to keep him in power . ’ |
| 22 | Beefy is a hero to the thousands that turn out to see him through rain and shine as he marches down the south coast . |
| 23 | It was just — ’ She turned to face him more fully , curious now to see him in technicolour . |
| 24 | The mamluks came out to meet him in battle , but their colourful medieval cavalry was no match for the modern firepower and discipline of the army of France which won a decisive victory at the Battle of the Pyramids . |
| 25 | We began by talking politics , which he enjoyed doing with someone not out to convert him to socialism — then , as now , the established faith of most intellectuals — and , referring to A. L. Rowse 's fervent attempts , the first of many , to persuade him to join the Labour Party , he flung wide his arms and said : ‘ I refuse to be tied down to allegiances of this kind . ’ |
| 26 | She found herself reaching out to touch him in return , closed her eyes and told herself to stop , but could n't . |
| 27 | It was rumoured that Alam wanted Khomeini executed in 1963 but other religious leaders prevailed upon the Shah not even to put him on trial . |
| 28 | Instinctively she knew how to pleasure him in return , exalted when he moaned at the delicacy of her touch and begged for her to increase the pressure of her caresses , until they reached the point of no return together , their bodies joining in a union so satisfying , so complete that in that moment of culmination Gina no longer felt a separate entity . |
| 29 | At school , the few masters who had noticed him at all had tried vaguely to direct him towards science . |
| 30 | By a curious twist of fate , it was precisely Nizan 's implacable opposition to fascism and his deep commitment to Republican France that were ultimately to place him in contradiction with the imperialist war thesis advocated by the Communist International a few months later . |