Example sentences of "[verb] he [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further , and in acknowledgment of his work as joint secretary of the Tutorial Classes Committee and for his duties in connection with the annual Cambridge Summer School Pateman also received a substantial honorarium which provided him with some security as his salary as District Secretary was not infrequently in arrears . |
| 2 | Subsequent parliamentary enquiries into improper electoral practices involved him in some censure and this enabled Disraeli , who never liked him , to make fresh arrangements for the management of the party in opposition . |
| 3 | When , after his assaults on her , she begs to be allowed to leave , her instinctive feeling for him makes her provide him with some hope of her return , or at least of their future communication . |
| 4 | But his finest years found him in some competition with another actor who , like Brando , refused to conform . |
| 5 | She wanted to kiss him , to soften him , to diminish him in some way so that she felt safer , more human . |
| 6 | One could scarcely describe him as some kind of father-figure ! |
| 7 | In the evening Chola woke him with some water to drink : he winced and then groaned as the pain shot out from his thigh and radiated through his body . |
| 8 | I remember , one bloke , mind-reader he was — Steenie booked him for some Variety bill , forget where it was now . |
| 9 | Delaunay felt that the basis of his art was ‘ simultaneous ’ contrasts of colour , a concept which he adopted from Chevreul , whose colour theory had interested him for some time . |
| 10 | It was n't just Frank they were looking for , if they had n't shot him already and buried him in some bog . |
| 11 | ‘ I have been waiting to pick him for some time but our form was not good and it was not easy on Dion living in hotels . |
| 12 | but I put him on some medicine I got from the chemist and it seems to have calmed it down but his nose is more er hot and cold |
| 13 | She always forgot , when she had not seen him for some time , how he affected her . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've not seen him for some time . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I have n't seen him for some time . ’ |
| 16 | I usually bump into him every so often on the stairs , in one of the upstairs rooms or in the garden , but I have not seen him in some time . |
| 17 | On another day I provoked him in some way and he slapped my cheek . |
| 18 | ‘ He was a black Jew ; the Church has turned him into some kind of Barbie doll . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , dear , you do n't want to hear my stories , ’ he would say when Benny and Eve plagued him for some information . |
| 20 | He had positioned himself in a narrow doorway , in the vain hope it would provide him with some shelter from the biting cold . |
| 21 | Ludens was by now , in an ordinary sense , more used to being with Marcus , less afraid of ‘ saying the wrong thing ’ , and had resolved today to ask a crude question which had been troubling him for some time . |
| 22 | ‘ In my opinion , they 'll move him to some sort of safe house . |
| 23 | Ari wondered whether she was betraying him in some way by leaving him alone with the dreaded sibling of Cabochon Crevecoeur . |
| 24 | Occasionally two or three rooks would straggle up to mob him from some tree or tiny patch of parkland they were trying to protect but he was going strongly and the wind was giving him support and direction . |
| 25 | He does n't seem to be embarrassed by anything , except when you try to provoke him by telling him that surely he must thump his desk once in a while , or that although he says that a record company exists ‘ to guide your artists ’ most of them must hate him at some point . |
| 26 | Tulagai was flushed and it was apparent that Jotan had been baiting him for some time . |
| 27 | Luckily there was a manger in the corner of his box with a tying-up ring next to it so I tied him to some baler twine , in case the worse came to the worse , and put his water and his hay at nose level in front of him . |
| 28 | And we 've got to include him in some crime as soon as we can . |
| 29 | Deng 's developmentalist stance had not always endeared him to Mao , but had aligned him to some extent with Premier Zhou , who also saw overly radical , leftist policies as a threat to China 's economic and social development . |
| 30 | She was so ashamed of not remembering what had happened that she felt she must compensate him in some way , so she kissed his mouth and stroked his cheek . |