Example sentences of "[verb] he [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Another requirement is firefighting and first aid so my BP training has come in handy , ’ added Robin , whose wife , Denise , now joins him at the track — as a flag marshal .
2 But it is too soon for him to face the likes of Devon Malcolm , and Fletcher said the tour selectors would not consider him for the pipe opener in Faridabad .
3 Then bundle up your husband and boyfriend and send him to the woman whose name appears at the top of the list , you will receive 16,337 men — and one of them is bound to be a hell of a lot better than the one you already have .
4 If necessary , take him shopping with you , or better still , send him to the supermarket alone so that he realises the cost of basic necessities .
5 When I came back , cos I went in on the way to the hairdresser 's , to find out about it , and I thought I 'd buy him on the way back , when I went back it was still sitting in the same place with its tail hanging out of the back .
6 However : What Mr Taylor [ for the council ] said … was … that the common assumption which lay behind the agreement was that the council was the owner of the … land and that Mr Tillson had no interest in either parcel of land beyond the tenancy which the council was to grant him by the transaction .
7 His seat is secure but he is also seeing the man who defeated him for the party leadership on the way to another victory for the Tories .
8 Only nine days ago he lost the Macartney and Dowie Classic when Douglas defeated him in the semi-final , and the loss of another title today could be extremely damaging to morale .
9 Place him on the bed . ’
10 If , now , we place him in the pantheon of Afro-Asian leaders who decisively influenced the course of events it is because he was a survivor , to whom the drama of revolutionary struggle was an end in itself .
11 There does , however , appear to be some confusion among various commentators as to Bukharin 's basic position : some , such as Itoh , place him in the underconsumptionist school , while others place him — correctly — in the disproportionality school ; but the latter , e.g. Sweezy , Mandel , Day , do not always attribute the same meaning to this .
12 If your child is unconscious , place him in the recovery position ( see page 82 ) .
13 England , too , came to realise his significance which is why , since the Carling-Guscott partnership began , they have tried somehow to work him into the side .
14 ‘ Go on — it will cheer you up ’ but I dismissed him like the rest , saying I was not thirsty , despising the thought of drinking from the same grimy bottle which a rogue had .
15 The ruler of Sharjah , Shaikh bin Sultan Mohammed al-Qassimi , on Feb. 4 , 1990 , removed from his brother , Shaikh Abdel-Aziz bin Mohammed al-Qassimi , the title of Crown Prince and dismissed him from the deputy chairmanship of the Sharjah Executive Council .
16 O'Neill denies using abusive language to referee Eddy Green , who dismissed him from the dugout during a win over Northwich on March 24 .
17 Stoughton was even a friend of Matthew Arnold , who proposed him for the Athenaeum .
18 The gang assaulted him during the drive to Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire , then threw him out of the car .
19 This was not the moment to lecture him on the facts of hospital life , so I said briefly , ‘ Patients prefer two to one , ’ and asked if he had explained his position to Sister .
20 Any story which carries the imputation of discreditable conduct by somebody will be actionable by a plaintiff who can show that at least some readers would recognise him as the person being criticised , or that the facts in the story necessarily imply such an allegation against him .
21 Gary said : ‘ It 's obvious that people want him in the England team . ’
22 I would n't trust him with the keys .
23 She trusted him to look after the Post 's interests before he sold the story to any other outlets , but she did not know whether she could trust him with the story .
24 He also had to juggle the practicalities of being coach , going on part-time high-school teaching , and seeing if Otago Cricket Association would continue employing him in the off-season as executive director when he would n't be around for much of the summer .
25 These replies were highly satisfactory to the King , who summoned Baldwin to the Palace at 3.15 p.m. and charged him with the task of forming a Government .
26 The reporter snapped a rubber band over his notebook , told Hank he would have rung him about the details of the book but he had not been able to get through .
27 But I was anxious to see Mr Rochester , who had been away on business , so I ran out of the quiet house to meet him on the road .
28 He invited you up the pitch to meet him on the drive .
29 It would have been cheaper to have taken the coach , if longer , but Dr Bailey had sent a curt postcard telling him it would be best for her to meet him off the noon train ; the campus was some way out of town , it would be best that way .
30 ‘ At first , yes , and he often summoned the Queen to meet him across the Forth , but in the weeks before he died , his visits became less frequent .
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