Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SUN man Paul Welford has reported him to the police , and Flashman said : ‘ If people want to do that , then fair enough . |
| 2 | An upbringing designed to carry him through changes of regime and frontier , possible loss of every worldly possession , and , in the event of crisis , protracted stays with distant relatives ensconced wherever the aristocracy was tolerated , from the Polish border to Hyde Park Gate , in short , a good European background , had made him totally self-contained and able with sunny smile and the formal handshake of the gymnase to set almost anybody at their ease , even the flustered Nenna . |
| 3 | He felt hammer blows to his arm before Dean tried to stab him with a screwdriver . |
| 4 | He felt hammer blows to his arm before Dean tried to stab him with a screwdriver . |
| 5 | Instead , he ended up in charity administration , but his earlier sense of a religious vocation has left him with quite another side : a passion for Romanesque churches . |
| 6 | Full-back Steve Mungall wants to join him on the score-sheet after bookmakers Stanley 's gave special odds on his scoring feats . |
| 7 | The reader for his part is drawn into the discourse role that the writer has cast him in ( for further discussion see Widdowson 1979 : Paper 13 ; 1984a : Section 2 ) . |
| 8 | Foreigners tend to see him as a ‘ whingeing pom , brit etc. ’ and do not like the program . |
| 9 | The college failed to elect him to the Bye-Fellowship . |
| 10 | Schlesinger 's agent tried to dissuade him from taking it on , advising him rather to direct Jack Lemmon in The April Fools . |
| 11 | His crime has brought him to the extremity which Marmeladov was telling him about and tasting at the bottom of his own vodka jug in the opening pages of the novel . |
| 12 | But Dr Jones 's involvement with industry has led him into difficulties — which lend a critical edge to the parable . |
| 13 | Perhaps no player has ever been quite as competitive as Botham , and if his combativeness has led him into trouble off the field it has generally worked in his favour on it — except when he has refused to part with the ball despite not bowling well , or when he has holed out in the deep when a more circumspect approach was required . |
| 14 | For one thing , his obsession with tactics has led him into an absurd devaluation of the merits and achievements of Peter Beardsley . |
| 15 | Police were alerted and a member of the Redcar crew , an offduty police Inspector David Cammish and a psychologist tried to talk him to safety . |
| 16 | Police were alerted and a member of the Redcar crew , an off-duty police inspector , David Cammish , and a psychologist tried to talk him to safety . |
| 17 | After the Nazi occupation of France in 1940 he escaped to the United States where Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard tried to recruit him to their team at Columbia but were prevented because Washington at that time did not recognise the Free French forces . |
| 18 | One research scientist , a friend of mine said that the setting up of a particularly apt experiment has lead him to a sense of the beautiful . |
| 19 | Although he left no explicit statement of belief , recent scholarship has shown him as a consistent sponsor of reform , both in his local activities and as an intermediary between suitors and the Crown . |
| 20 | Trade supremo Michael Heseltine , whose supporters want to see him in Mr Lamont 's job , was even more lavish in his praise . |
| 21 | Lord Dundas was fully aware of Glassford 's importance to his political interest in Clackmannan , and had taken steps to try to oblige him in a matter relating to his West Indian business interests , but Glassford was also conscious of his position in the political sphere , and fully intended to use it to secure his brother-in-law 's reinstatement . |
| 22 | BARNET chairman Stan Flashman has vowed he will ban any fans caught criticising him on the terraces . |
| 23 | Nicholson 's new boy Adrian Maguire has thirty four winners already … but a double from Richard Dunwoody has taken him into the twenties |
| 24 | His research has taken him through the alpine and arid zones of Australia ; botanical history is one of his many interests , and he specialises in the ‘ Compositae ’ family . |
| 25 | It is said that a deputation of quarrymen came to see him with a view to getting a trade union recognised . |
| 26 | After Hocazade 's appointment to the kazaskerlik some years later , his father and brothers came to visit him in Edirne . |
| 27 | His office says he has kept at least 20 top-flight journalists and analysts cooling their heels waiting to interview him since October . |
| 28 | Grant felt a hammer blow strike him on the right breast and a searing pain in his right bicep . |
| 29 | The wind threatened to pluck him like a ripe orange off a tree . |
| 30 | As he played , part of the roof collapsed burying him under a pile of rubble . |