Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [verb] he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as compelling production of incriminating Reports in the hand of the insured may lead to a climate for settlement on the part of the defender , so a Specification properly directed to the pursuer or those to whom he may have entrusted information ( other than his solicitors ) may assist in compelling him to be more realistic . |
| 2 | She had succeeded in damning him with the faintest of eulogies . |
| 3 | Though earlier Joseph 's brothers had planned to kill him , and had succeeded in selling him into slavery , the story 's final scene in Genesis 50 showed sincere confessions of guilt , moving declarations of love and all fear finally removed . |
| 4 | Was Isambard bent on winning him by kindness now ? |
| 5 | A passing cart rolled by splattering him with mud and Corbett quietly cursed Burnell for sending him here . |
| 6 | Recalling , though , how on the drive to Karlovy Vary she had decided against bombarding him with questions so that he could concentrate on his driving , Fabia , with some reluctance , faced the fact that that was the only course to follow . |
| 7 | and we were saying last year we could of done with having him for a bit |
| 8 | This means that they must refrain from instructing him about what he is to do … " ( p. 295 ) . |
| 9 | What his countrymen did not deserve was being prevented from ousting him after his second term of office . |
| 10 | He had been on the fringes of politics in the nineteen-hundreds , he had sought erm to get adopted as a parliamentary candidate , he had erm taken part in the movement for female emancipation , erm on one occasion the police were only prevailed upon to save him from being mobbed by an angry crowd by being told that he was the brother of an Earl erm But it was with the First World War that his practical activities really began . |
| 11 | The costs of treating Richard in this fashion were far greater than the gains to be made from keeping him in suspense about his future . |
| 12 | This he would achieve by forcing him into discarding his weapons . |
| 13 | The world is not altogether reformed by cheap tours , nor is the inherent vulgarity of the British Philistine going to be eradicated by sending him with a through ticket and a bundle of hotel coupons to Egypt and the Holy Land … |
| 14 | I 've got ta get him in in a minute . |
| 15 | You got ta , se when you go up on the scales you 've got ta er say eight ten to ma he carried two pound overweight so you 've got ta put him at the scale and then the end of , the governor relies on the travel head lad to do this , the same as I 'm head man at home . |
| 16 | I 've thought of replacing him with heroin . |
| 17 | This was one of those minor administrative details which Miss Faraker would never have dreamed of troubling him with . |
| 18 | Lady Macbeth succeeds in calming him by her usual tactics of scornful reductivism : ‘ When all 's done , /You look but on a stool ’ ( 67f. ) , and mockery of his cowardice : ‘ What ! quite unmanned in folly ? ’ ( 73 ) . |
| 19 | He slipped away to the great palace of King Darzin and begged to be rewarded for warning him against his enemies . |
| 20 | And what he enjoys even more is the knowledge that their affection is based upon patronizing him from what they take to be their greater radicalism ; while in fact , under the surface , he is more radical than they will ever be . |
| 21 | The sheriff could be called upon to assist him with armed men when he raised the hue , and to arrest men of whose names the warden informed him . |
| 22 | But with his back to the wall , and with the octopus bent on destroying him through no fault of his own , his first , last and only duty was to his family . |
| 23 | Baxter used to delight in taunting him with the nickname ‘ Oor Wullie ’ and in his biography described Allen as ‘ a pillar of the church , a model of rectitude and , not to labour the point , a pompous pain in the neck . ’ |
| 24 | OPPONENTS of Mr Frank Field , the Labour MP for Birkenhead , believe they succeeded in deselecting him at the secret ballot held last Tuesday . |
| 25 | ‘ I should have stuck with playing him down the middle . |
| 26 | Not that his pursuers would be distracted from finding him by such petty secrecy . |
| 27 | He thought about cutting him in future , but he was short of people to talk to . |
| 28 | She thought of ringing him on the off chance of catching him at the flat , but shelved the possibility as unlikely . |
| 29 | Remember I thought of having him in Ireland - I wish I had . |
| 30 | When my colleague had said that , with me sitting right beside him , I felt like punching him in the face ; it was that kind of attitude that any campaign would have to fight . |