Example sentences of "[verb] he [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It 'll mean seeing so much less of him , and God knows I seem to see little enough already , but being an only boy I 've felt I must pack him off to boarding-school to get some men in his life and break the apron-strings . |
2 | PSYCHIATRIC reports are to be prepared on an unemployed woodcutter , Brian McGregor , whose forged football coupon lined him up for potential winnings of £3,826.47 billion . |
3 | I understand that Border , 37 , was within one phone call of losing his job when umpire Steve Randell reported him along with fast bowler Merv Hughes for dissent in the first Test at Brisbane earlier this month . |
4 | He had two other wins that year , at Zandvoort and Monza , but his car let him down on other occasions when his excellent driving had put him in a race-winning situation . |
5 | Frustrated but secretly delighted that I had maybe caught him out with shoddy workmanship until an old fellow from Bernera stopped to give me a lift on the way past Carlaway and showed me the right ones , just before the main stones of Callanish . |
6 | ‘ I love him and will welcome him back with open arms , ’ she said . |
7 | They cut him off during televised debates . |
8 | As his chauffeur drove him back to Blue Ash Farm in the Lincoln , he decided it was love which gave her that special glow , that sparkle , that vivacity which drew the young men round her like flies . |
9 | I sometimes used to help him out with double dates , but they always ended with both girls squabbling over yours truly and Stuart sulking in the corner and displaying all the charisma of a limpet . |
10 | My lesson lasted about half the time of Tony 's , terminating as he was explaining the purpose of the deadman 's handle to me when a gust filled his chute and hauled him off in fine style . |
11 | Galliano showed two hours late , which could have ruined him , but fortunately did n't because the press loved him and his audience welcomed him back with loud approval after an absence of two seasons ( due to the lack of financial backing ) . |
12 | Forster slithered to Delaney and got a grip , pulling him back to comparative safety . |
13 | While he was there he learnt to fly with the University Air Squadron and was in despair when , on the outbreak of war , the RAF initially turned him down on medical grounds . |
14 | Then he hosed him down with warm water until all traces of the beck had been removed . |
15 | Keep the old man in there , get him out in good time to defrost , maybe even put him in a hot bath to remove any traces of his preservation . |
16 | And when Derek emphasized , as he was determined to , that the contents of the letters supported his brother 's protests of his innocence , Golding heard him out with patient inscrutability . |
17 | Elijah heard a divine message sending him back to troubled Israel , with intuition as to definite things to do , one of which was to find a successor to carry on the prophetic ministry . |
18 | Although practical experience was not required , Balliol decided to build its own laboratory , and asked Smith to run it , sending him off to various distinguished chemists to obtain an appropriate training . |
19 | Today we meet young comedienne Lois Waters and her dad Denny , and tomorrow Chris Boardman talks about the man who spurred him on to Olympic fame . |
20 | Rain feared they had drifted so-far into the events of the day of the murder that she would never draw him back to other matters . |
21 | Er I do n't know how many of you made wills but er draw him out on other things if you 've got any problems I mean we we had quite an interesting session at one of the power station talks on a er tenant er tenancy agreement that a chap had been bothered about for some years . |
22 | She had taken to him from the first , and he to her , perhaps , on his part , because she had given him some hot mutton broth and let him eat as much bread as he could manage , which had been half a loaf ; and then she had rigged him out in odd things . |
23 | It 's pleasanter than chopping him up in little pieces . |
24 | He 's got a bad knee and without the union to keep him out of hard physical work he 's stuck really — he 's got no qualifications or anything . ’ |
25 | His intelligence marked him out from other prisoners . |
26 | After that whenever he came near she warned him off with bared teeth . |
27 | Providing his French colleagues agree , which is akin to the BBC agreeing to retain Dan Maskell , he will stand for another four year term as President of the French Federation , which will take him through to early 1997 . |
28 | She must swallow her hurt and pay him back with loving kindness . |
29 | Presently a remark of Elizabeth 's started him off on capital punishment , because it emerged that Ivy was rather a friend to hanging . |
30 | Do n't anger him out of silly pride . ’ |