Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] he [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But having put him in , he rarely consulted him on general policy issues and gave hint little role even in industrial disputes , which were still the traditional concern of the Board of Trade . |
| 2 | Perhaps I was sent to the chippie , or café up the street to fetch cigarettes , or lemonade , or to go at full haste and deliver a note to one of his girl-friends ; or maybe he simply wanted to chastise me for something I had done , as for instance when I inadvertently got him into hot water by mentioning to Mum that I had seen him with a girl ( an infamous young woman ) after he had faithfully promised not to see her again , ever . |
| 3 | She patiently gammed him for long minutes ; fondling his testicles with one hand , and exploring the cleft of his arse with the other . |
| 4 | The touch of Asuryan was no longer so strong in his mind , and the Sword of Khaine no longer provided him with near limitless strength . |
| 5 | Amanullah 's pursuit of his two most cherished objectives , to modernize his country in the shortest possible time and to make it independent of Britain , soon brought him into headlong conflict with Humphrys , whose previous eighteen years in India , mostly among the tribes across the frontier from Afghanistan , had not prepared him to deal with a ruler of such independence of mind . |
| 6 | With the gentry his charm and distinction soon put him on excellent terms . |
| 7 | Martinus , a just man , protested to Paulus , who promptly threatened him with instant imprisonment for his interference . |
| 8 | Wealthy friends who still held him in high regard as a man , raised money and set the family up in a 500 acre property which they arranged in the names of Mrs. Piper and the children . |
| 9 | At first Gaskell supported Deacon 's plans to manufacture alkali by the new Solvay process , but later persuaded him for financial reasons to employ the older Leblanc method . |
| 10 | peters also introduced him to small-boat cruising and they made many cruises between Marblehead and the Canadian border . |
| 11 | His easy success often led him into precarious adventures ; in 1917 the French intercepted a cable from the German Ambassador in Madrid reporting to Berlin that he had found a mistress for the new Commander-in-Chief , for the modest fee of 12,000 pesetas a month . |
| 12 | ‘ … and fairly lambasted him about young officers being allowed to make mistakes , learn from experience , and not be penalised etc etc . ’ |
| 13 | Seeing the mist that deepened the dark grey of her eyes , the pale translucent cheeks , both so beautiful now in their glowing copper setting , it was all Benedict could do not to snatch her back into the heat of his embrace , and force his way to that intimate deep caress , the thought of which now fired him with passionate yearning . |
| 14 | Pressure from avant-garde patrons like Lord Chesterfield and , by the look of Clifton Hill 's garden front , Paul Fisher , often forced him into Rococo compromises with his Palladian inclinations . |
| 15 | On 2 October 1991 Jordanian security forces arrested Muhammad al-Fasi , a Saudi Arabian businessman , and reportedly handed him to Saudi Arabian authorities at the al-Haditha crossing point on the Saudi/Jordanian frontier . |
| 16 | I knew I was n't the only victim because I had heard complaints from others ; the fruiterer who saw his apples disappear from the box in front of the shop , the grocer who unwillingly supplied him with free biscuits . |
| 17 | This initially led him to ceremonial magick and London 's Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn ( 1898 ) , members of which included W. B. Yeats , Arthur Machen [ qq.v. ] , and its leader , S. L. Mathers ; and to yoga with the former Golden Dawn member Allan Bennett , later Bhikku Anada Metteya , who brought Theravada ( Hinayana ) Buddhism to Great Britain . |
| 18 | Streat congratulated MacArthur on his ‘ momentous ’ achievements and then warned him against encouraging Japanese competition to the point where strong antagonism was aroused in western and eastern countries . |
| 19 | Scots-born ( in Elgin ) , educated at Aberdeen University , qualifying as a CA , then joining Alcan Aluminium , he realised his experience and qualifications were ‘ quite narrow ’ and so headed off to Manchester Business School and an MBA which then took him into international consultancy with McKinsey . |
| 20 | In response , Heraclius " took off his purple … then went he with naked feet and took the Cross , praising God with the shedding of tears " . |
| 21 | If all Preston 's childhood friends had lined up against a wall , as when they were waiting to be picked for football , Preston would most likely have left William to pretty near the end and then put him at left back , or somewhere he would do the least damage to his own side . |
| 22 | Whites who did n't know him , yet condemned him with borrowed certainty as someone who had little interest in cricket beyond its utility as a stick to beat the apartheid policy with , were typical of the society I came from . |
| 23 | In 1960 he was more senior in the Communist Party than Pol Pot , and in 1976 briefly replaced him as prime minister . |
| 24 | However , since the diagnosis of CMV retinitis was an AIDS-defining illness and therefore qualified him for permanent disability and other benefits , he had concealed this fact from those involved in his care . |
| 25 | And I suggested to him that I sedate him , essentially put him under general anaesthesia with morphine , and let nature take its course . |