Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] he [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I got one what was a bit tricky I used to perhaps tie him to the gate , but they got used to it . |
| 2 | So long as a judge keeps silent his reputation for wisdom and impartiality remains unassailable : but every utterance which he makes in public , except in the course of the actual performance of his judicial duties , must necessarily bring him within the focus of criticism . |
| 3 | It is possible to imagine that one of them was brightening with the low cunning of unscrupulous greed and that the other was already stepping into that heavy gloom of shame and guilt which could only take him to the hospital or worse . |
| 4 | In the case of an only moderately cruel man , the intensification of the pain beyond a certain point will suddenly switch him to the equalization of viewpoints , and his pleasure will lapse . |
| 5 | He became concerned when he could not locate him on the premises , because Mr Jowett was due to take over the lambing . |
| 6 | that does n't bother me , but considering it was only the second I 'd spoken to him and I did not fancy him in the least erm , it really made my skin crawl . |
| 7 | But it is too soon for him to face the likes of Devon Malcolm , and Fletcher said the tour selectors would not consider him for the pipe opener in Faridabad . |
| 8 | As the living room of his end-terraced council house in Cherrywood Drive , Beith , Ayrshire , became a court , Mr McTear admitted that even the awful price of his former 60-a-day habit could not rid him of the temptation . |
| 9 | I can not dignify him with the name of " physician " … should send to their doom many poor souls who might , with the proper treatment , recover ! " |
| 10 | He had hinted , as Maureen had done , that Pascoe was guilty of fraud but did not implicate him in the murder , and invited Wickham to accept that it was a political killing . |
| 11 | Since then , communism has fallen , and his once-faithful compatriots will no longer welcome him with the same fervour when he arrives for his fourth visit on June 1st . |
| 12 | She could not picture him behind the grim walls of Swansea Prison , instead she remembered him riding with her in the park , smiling down at her with his dark eyes , making her feel so small and helpless . |
| 13 | My belief is that Holyfield , who trades in quantity rather than quality when it comes to punches , will recover from the early storm , which could easily see him on the canvas , to win around the 10th . |
| 14 | I could not look him in the eyes . |
| 15 | Even the after effects could not keep him from the final . |
| 16 | But any rational analysis of the outcome of the Democratic primaries makes it clear that Jackson 's racial identity did not and could not defeat him in the voting booth . |
| 17 | Certainly Jenny did not see him for the first few evenings she was at Moorlake . |
| 18 | You 'll see — I 'll probably not see him for the rest of the week . ’ |
| 19 | We did not see him as the spineless vicar that Fielding turned him into in Shamela . |
| 20 | For a second she saw a man on top of the rock , then she could not see him behind the waves . |
| 21 | Why do n't you just keep him in the clinic ? ’ and shrugged her angry retort aside . |
| 22 | Because if he treated her as her father had treated Odette , she knew she would not bear it so patiently , would not bless him on the day he finally left her , as Odette had done , but would go after him with a knife to hunt him down . |
| 23 | It had to be an art that did not separate him from the uncultured poor but was founded in them , gathering them to him in a home of art they could all share , a home that sheltered and consoled ; a warm place . |
| 24 | She would just confront him with the fact that she knew about Flint Investments of New York , and see what he said . |
| 25 | Norwich manager Mike Walker insisted that Newman 's enforced lay-off would not force him into the transfer market . |
| 26 | Sir John Menzies had a recurrent dream , especially on the nights when his young wife would not have him in the bed beside her , or he had been drinking late , and he slept in the side bedroom , which was tall and narrow with two pistols perched on nails in the wall . |
| 27 | His repugnance , for example , does not take him to the point of seeking to prevent those who wished to take part in war from doing so . |
| 28 | That this tolerant attitude should have resulted in his being called an Anekāntavādin , or a believer in many doctrines , is not surprising , but it did not disturb him in the least . |
| 29 | However , his appreciation of the dangers from militant continental Catholicism did not blind him to the threat from the more radical varieties of Protestantism at home , and as Kenneth Fincham and Peter Lake have commented : ‘ it is difficult not to be impressed by the skill with which he handled both anti-Puritan and anti-papal stereotypes to create the ideological space within which the royal will could manoeuvre and policy be formulated . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Did you not tell him about the Englishman ? ’ |