Example sentences of "[verb] he [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She dropped to her knees , and unbuttoned him with quick busy fingers . |
| 2 | The touch of Asuryan was no longer so strong in his mind , and the Sword of Khaine no longer provided him with near limitless strength . |
| 3 | Last Friday 's ruling concerned the case of a 14-year-old dyslexic boy from Salford , Greater Manchester , who claimed that his education authority had failed in its statutory duty to provide him with adequate extra lessons to help him cope with his disability . |
| 4 | An eruption of hissing spluttery steam , carrying wood and metal splinters and crusty bubbles of burnt floor , violently emits from his thought-crater and covers him in gritty black rubbish , the cruel knowledge flashes through to his spine spring which , uncoiling viciously , bashes his head on the back of the seat . |
| 5 | Newton spent more time and energy on alchemical speculations than on the scientific discoveries which galvanised the Western world : Storr reconstructs the neurotic drive which impelled him to heroic intellectual feats . |
| 6 | They trapped him in corners , caught him and drove him into small dark spaces that rattled terrifyingly . |
| 7 | From 1899 to 1902 he encouraged young Labour church workers to visit him for informal religious training . |
| 8 | Whatever mysterious spirit had unlocked the verse , it had freed him for other human satisfactions , for love ; or was it the other way around ? |
| 9 | Mazowiecki finally won backing from the Sejm to remove Marek Kucharski from the Communications portfolio , replacing him with fellow Democratic Party ( SD ) member Jan Wiktor Slezak . |
| 10 | Milton 's adoption of the high style here distances him from popular dissenting expression , instead giving him a voice ( if not a message ) more likely to be equated with , and find favour among , a sophisticated court culture . |
| 11 | On 2 October 1991 Jordanian security forces arrested Muhammad al-Fasi , a Saudi Arabian businessman , and reportedly handed him to Saudi Arabian authorities at the al-Haditha crossing point on the Saudi/Jordanian frontier . |
| 12 | Streat congratulated MacArthur on his ‘ momentous ’ achievements and then warned him against encouraging Japanese competition to the point where strong antagonism was aroused in western and eastern countries . |
| 13 | If flying to Japan made ol' George Bush feel kinda disoriented and a bit sick , then a visit to the Isle of Wight would probably have him in full Exorcist mode ; not just projectile vomiting but his head spinning too . |
| 14 | She watched him with angry green eyes . |
| 15 | The Uttoxeter race last month , when he was third to today 's rival Laura 's Beau , will have brought him to full racing fitness after just four runs ( two over hurdles ) in the intervening 23 months . |
| 16 | However , with the ascendancy of the conservative faction in the 1540s , Rudd began to achieve a modest prominence , being nominated clerk of the closet , which brought him into close personal contact with Henry VIII . |
| 17 | At the same time , it presented him with colossal political opportunities . |
| 18 | One might perhaps have expected that it would have been impossible to discharge him from hospital , but the local authority , which shares parental responsibility for him , has been able to place him with devoted foster parents whose dedication and skill are of the highest possible order . |
| 19 | ‘ There was very little he could do about the horrendous injuries Cooper suffered in his two fights against Ali , but he saved him on countless other occasions with his quick , methodical work . ’ |
| 20 | He 's had a lifelong fight with feminists who accuse him of extreme male chauvinism and damaging their dignity . |
| 21 | Faldo ruined his chances with a 76 on Saturday — and even a 67 on the last day could only put him in joint second place . |
| 22 | It will include private pictures never seen before — some of them shown exclusively here — sound tapes never previously heard in public and shots taken from 30 hours of film footage from Elvis 's home movies , showing him in intimate off-duty moments . |
| 23 | This would have taken him into working-class black dance-halls , bars , churches : more generally , by extension , into the whole network of subterranean currents beneath the bland surface of the metropolitan American musical mainstream . |
| 24 | A vomitoxin can be absorbed through the skin , causing a soldier to remove his mask to vomit and thus exposing him to other toxic agents , through his respiratory system . |
| 25 | Shiona was still standing by the elevator , watching him with suspicious hazel eyes . |
| 26 | THE Bishop of Gloucester was in hiding last night after police quizzed him about alleged indecent behaviour towards a novice monk . |
| 27 | He thinks it 's ‘ nice ’ that people credit him with changing British photography , with breaking down the class barriers , with producing memorable images , but he also seems slightly amused by it all . |
| 28 | Sadler 's post of chemist seems to have been terminated in 1809 without compensation , leaving him in severe financial straits , but these were relieved by a subscription among his friends in Oxford . |
| 29 | Hoccleve ‘ s interest for us is accidental : the pressures of his mental illness pushed him into vivid personal confession in an age in which autobiography was almost always purely conventional . |
| 30 | It brings him into joint second place with Jackie Stewart in the league table of grand prix victories , but there is still some way to go before Senna matches the 44 won by Alain Prost , the man the media love Senna to hate . |