Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such colour as there was in Tutilo 's weary face slowly drained away to leave him grey and mute . |
| 2 | Johnson arrived in Winnipeg for the Canadian championships , but his advisers notified organisers late on Friday that a week-old hamstring injury had not healed sufficiently to enable him to race in Saturday 's 60 metres . |
| 3 | However , I was not prepared just to accept him with no experience at all and I asked him to give me some sort of evidence about the amount of flying he had done . |
| 4 | The bridge party duly clubbed together to buy him a dinner jacket . |
| 5 | The musical setting is carefully selected too to remove him from the tawdry everyday fray of the pop marketplace : violas , accordions , pennywhistles and assorted kitchen utensils conjure up the timeless integrity of Irish folk music ( or ‘ roots ’ in 1990-speak ) . |
| 6 | With a wide , delighted smile , because she had n't really expected ever to see him again , she teased , ‘ Are you following me ? ’ |
| 7 | She had n't managed even to soften him , let alone subjugate him , and that rankled unbearably . |
| 8 | Maggie was too surprised , too taken aback to resist him . |