Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] he [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There — must be some other way , ’ she voiced her thoughts out loud , and , as the thought occurred , ‘ I can tell Travis that I do n't want to see him again without going in for this — this charade . ’ |
| 2 | However , after a lively meeting with directors , Reg was persuaded to carry on as coach by three men in a hearse who asked to meet him outside during a beer break . |
| 3 | And , no doubt , if ever John Hall discovers the identity of the anonymous benefactor who spilt the beans , he will want to shake him warmly by the hand and offer him thanks on behalf of his club and the good of all in English rugby . |
| 4 | ‘ Right then , I want to see him again on Friday afternoon , and bring a sample of his urine with you . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ We do n't need to see him again until Thursday . |
| 6 | She tried to see him dispassionately as a grey-haired solicitor rather too well endowed with easy charm ; indeed , she saw him thus , but she also saw him otherwise , and could not help herself . |
| 7 | Either the man she is with is not ready for a long-term commitment , he may be violent and she wants to keep him away from the child . |
| 8 | I have worked for him for more than three years and have come to admire him both as a doctor and a man . |
| 9 | I pulled him away and tried to get him upstairs in case he was traumatized for life , but he kicked me in the balls . |
| 10 | He wondered if they had come to take him away to a Home for ungrateful and unwanted children . |
| 11 | Without thinking , she plunged into the mob , caught hold of the leather-worker and tried to drag him away from his assailants . |
| 12 | His petty-bourgeois family background , his status as an intellectual conversant with the rites of bourgeois education , values and culture , his sophisticated literary and critical talents as a writer , all conspired to set him apart from the communist party leadership and rank and file members alike . |
| 13 | After he is wounded in this staged hunt , perhaps she could be seen to nurse him daily with iodine and mercurochrome , out of remorse , but in the process establishing the first physical contact . |
| 14 | You would n't expect to see him again for months or weeks anyway — until he 'd spent the lot . |
| 15 | Similarly , it may take no more than a momentary pang of empathetic distress to convince me that if I could become as aware from the sufferer 's viewpoint as from my own I would be spontaneously moved to help him even to my own cost . |
| 16 | He conceded that it was hard on Alexander , and later came to respect him greatly for the way in which he gave Worrell his fullest support as vice-captain . |
| 17 | He handed over to poor Sir Alec Douglas-Home a party legacy of dwindling popularity , and although that amiable and resolute character fought with vigour and gallantry to maintain his position , the tide had sufficiently turned to abandon him gently on the beach , leaving Harold Wilson afloat in waters so shallow that the most gentle paddle hit the sand . |
| 18 | There was a boy she fancied herself — Jeff Freeman — and she was busy laying plans to entice him away from his steady girlfriend . |
| 19 | There was a pause , and the Oak seemed to study him afresh with solemn , scholarly eyes . |
| 20 | ( 183 ) But she admired even more what came later ; how after she had ceased wanting to blot him entirely from her mind , to make him not to be , they had found that they could after all talk good sense and kindness to each other . |
| 21 | It is possible that he contributed to early issues of the newsbook , but there is no evidence that he was responsible for editing it , and nothing in his future career or conduct to link him directly with the Levellers . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , do n't be ridiculous , Giles , calm down , calm down , come and have a nice Perrier water , ’ said Liz , taking his other arm , and , with Kate , attempting to lead him away from the fracas , as one would a child in a playground from its tormentor ( for Giles 's antagonist Paul Hargreaves , pale faced , dark suited , silver-grey tied , was smiling calmly with a horrible amusement at this distressing scene ) : but the desperate Giles was beyond leading , and fell back heavily as he attempted to disengage himself from his two intercessors , crashing into a large fern and some pots of bulbs and sending earth and splashes of champagne over the carpet . |
| 23 | How are we going to keep him away from our tree ? |
| 24 | In the first place , I 'm fond of your father and would genuinely like to keep him away from that fatal heart attack . |
| 25 | ‘ She 's going to get him right on his roses . |
| 26 | I 've got to get him away from here for at least three or four hours . |
| 27 | In the silence of the return journey she had almost slipped back to tranquillity and , oddly enough , it had helped to have him there beside her . |
| 28 | He had also stolen Cranborne School 's prize physicist , Khan , and had offered a free place to Simon Britton , a boy whose mother had had to take him away from Cranborne because of her financial circumstances . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm going to Steve now and I 'm going to take him away from all this . |
| 30 | Fully expecting to see him either in the saloon , or in the galley , she was surprised to find both empty . |