Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] he [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely no one would need to consult him at this hour ? |
| 2 | Charles put on a brave face to the world , but secretly he was in turmoil for many , many months ; and one other person who helped see him through this period was Diana . |
| 3 | On the last point that Les makes , I want to ensure him about this ; that when Horton run that boat business , that was a water-based business , it ran on the basis there were floats in the river and you stepped on to the float and you got onto a boat . |
| 4 | The press scoffed at his walks in the Kalahari Desert , at his fascination with lost and ancient tribes ; but experiences like that , plus a lifetime of travelling all over the world , seeing underdeveloped and overdeveloped countries and every kind of political regime , has brought him to this viewpoint . |
| 5 | His emphasis on the " common style " suggests that he is no longer interested in talking to himself but to others , and Four Quartets is at one level an oratorical performance : it would not be too much to say that all of his previous work has led him to this point , where poetry is married with public exhortation . |
| 6 | But it all nearly went horribly wrong as Benn cursed the ‘ scumbags ’ who tried to rob him of this title . |
| 7 | On a Saturday afternoon , Corporal Tambini tried to cure him of this structural malformation . |
| 8 | George V tried to dissuade him from this course and indeed went so far as to register a formal protest : |
| 9 | One reporter who came to interview him in this period noticed how he looked as if he might collapse from " lack of nourishment , insomnia and fatigue " , and an acquaintance described him thus : " His face was pale as baker 's bread … he smoked and between exhalations he hacked a dry , deathly smoker 's hack Eliot was cadaverous . " |
| 10 | She 'd taken him from the town and the friends that he knew and she 'd brought him to this great , dusty mausoleum of a place where he did n't even like to run around because the echo of his footsteps sounded too much like someone faceless who was following too close . |
| 11 | For he knew what Susan had done to present him with this daughter , his beautiful Kate , born just 12 years ago , six months after Simon had left their village . |
| 12 | It was as if time had lost all meaning , as if even that were conspiring to hasten him to this place where he would spend the rest of his life . |
| 13 | I did n't like to see him like this so when the second man had gone I turned to Dad . |
| 14 | An obstacle to Buchan 's transfer was that he would lose income from his Sunderland shop , and the deal was delayed for two months while ‘ under-the-counter ’ terms were agreed to compensate him for this loss . |
| 15 | And I did n't begin distrusting him until this trip . ’ |
| 16 | Not going to tackle him about this business of Dora 's golf-club , are you ? ’ |
| 17 | The southern entrance to the Bay was protected by a fearsome group of rocks , Les Cardinals , to port and a treacherous shoal , Le Four , to starboard and , with the weather worsening , Admiral Conflans was confident Hawke would not dare to pursue him through this hazardous gap without the benefit of local pilots , but he had underrated both his adversary 's daring and his seamanship . |
| 18 | We were just going to ask him about this proposed pay rise that 's all . |
| 19 | As Wayne returned , she quickly took her hand away ; she was n't going to tell him about this , not if she could help it . |
| 20 | No one would hear her , but she could n't face having to find him among this unfamiliar crowd . |
| 21 | It was just basically , one of those things , and Abbey paid out , because they said we would have done it , we would have accepted him on this anyway . |
| 22 | His broad culture , his knowledge and understanding of Roman law , his extraordinary gift for cutting through technicality to perceive and define principle , would surely have drawn him towards this result . |
| 23 | Having known him in this country and having travelled around Israel with him , I know that he is tough and resilient . |
| 24 | His own inclination would have led him towards this first interview three or four days earlier . |
| 25 | His face seemed familiar somehow , and yet I could n't recall seeing him in this place before . |
| 26 | Liza , while delighted at last to be in the company of Freddie Nash for so long a stretch , was nevertheless sorry to have to share him with this senior fellow officer , however much she had hitherto enjoyed driving Brigadier Smithson . |
| 27 | From the prologues to the Heautontimorumenos and the Adelphoe we know that his competitors had tried to discredit him for this . |
| 28 | It was presumably Bruce Davidson , who admired and was annoyed by Francesca in about equal measure , and therefore took an unremitting interest in all her activities , who had favoured him with this . |
| 29 | Nothing in his many years ' service had prepared him for this sort of situation . |
| 30 | Again , Karr had prepared him for this . |