Example sentences of "[verb] he [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morley Street is one of 11 entries for the Kingwell Hurdle at Wincanton on Thursday , but Balding is likely to avoid taking on Champion Hurdle favourite , Muse , there and send him straight to the Festival . |
| 2 | ‘ Send him away with a flea in his ear . |
| 3 | It was in his adopted position of right-back that Paul gained two England Under 21 caps and he is one of only a handful of players who have appeared for the Palace in ten post-war seasons , while his 319 games for the club place him firmly in the top five all-time appearances for us . |
| 4 | The contemporary historians Asikpasazade and Nesri place him firmly amongst the ulema of Mehmed II , both saying that " he came to the fore " in his sultanate . |
| 5 | He even uses words which come from the Old Testament Book of Daniel and they recognised that and here they 've got this pathetic looking individual in front of them threatening to destroy the temple , threatening to this , that and the other and here you 've got this power Sanhedrin who ca n't recognise him really as the Messiah and yet there 's a ring of truth about some of things that he 's talking about . |
| 6 | I want him here until the end of his career . ’ |
| 7 | Not so , says Mr Crust : ‘ Even in this environment , if your house is alight you want a fireman there and you want him there in a reasonable length of time . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I said that I thought it would be alright and made arrangements to meet him again at the church on the following Saturday afternoon to discuss details . |
| 10 | It crossed Cora-Beth 's mind that this girl 's feelings towards Harry might well change if she were to meet him again after an absence of two years , but she bit back her words , fearing that the suggestion , were she to make it , might put the idea into his head . |
| 11 | He wrote round to fifteen builders on 22nd March and , with what today would be regarded as incredible naïveté , asked them to meet him together at the Office of Works on 24th March . |
| 12 | At a PEN Canada benefit event in Toronto last month , Salman Rushdie was cordially embraced by the Ontario Premier Bob Rae , the first government leader to meet him publicly since the Iranian fatwa . |
| 13 | He grappled with Slatter , tearing him away from the motionless body . |
| 14 | She invited him home for a coffee and he set about trying to find out what was wrong with her washing machine . |
| 15 | Jacques Devraux had not troubled to make him known to the senator , but while his father made a final check of the baggage truck , Paul Devraux had patted him affectionately on the shoulder and introduced him to them as " the great all-purpose Annamese genie Ngo Van Loc , who 's houseboy , camp boy , chauffeur and indispensable general assistant to the humble Devraux family . " |
| 16 | Mercer drew him away to a comer , and slowly , haltingly , the general good humour resurfaced . |
| 17 | She drew him away to the corner by the iced water machine . |
| 18 | A hand caught his and drew him quietly into the room . |
| 19 | However , I seem to remember Mad Carew aptly described him once as a ‘ block of flats ’ . |
| 20 | Someone close to Mr Mandela described him yesterday as a chess player five moves ahead of anyone else in the game . |
| 21 | Although he agreed , it was obviously difficult for Adam to let go of the reins , as Lissa discovered when she arrived at Lynx some time later to find him still on the premises . |
| 22 | Carrefour faltered , doubling over as the bullet caught him just below the sternum . |
| 23 | He continued to go forward and even when Hodkinson caught him flush on the jaw with a straight right , it did n't stop his forward march . |
| 24 | The man ducked , weaving to his left so that Trent 's fist caught him high on the right cheek . |
| 25 | She beamed at her husband , bravely facing the barrage of produce , and winced as a particularly juicy specimen caught him right on the chin . |
| 26 | She caught him again on the way back between oven and table , and sank herself into him once more , but after a moment became conscious that he was having to make a considerable effort to hold the hot saucepan away from her at arm 's length . |
| 27 | Botham had the first six wickets before Marshall and Baptiste held him up for while , Marshall being lucky not to be on the wrong end of a legendary catch when Don Topley , a groundstaff boy who went on to play for Essex , brilliantly caught him one-handed on the square leg boundary , only to put one foot over the rope . |
| 28 | Her hand shot out and caught him fully on the side of the face , causing him to wince . |
| 29 | It could have saved him this time , but the policeman , half nerved up for aggression , caught him fairly in the doorway and hung on with professional ease . |
| 30 | She fixed him suddenly with a beady stare from beneath the crêpy lids . |