Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] he [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We tried to sign Chris Waddle , but it was not right for him at the time . |
| 2 | ‘ We tried to sign Chris Waddle , but it was not right for him at the time , we went for Peter Beardsley , but it was not right for Everton . |
| 3 | Markward of Anweiler , who only approached Innocent when the situation was hopeless for him after the formation of a league of cities against imperial domination . |
| 4 | They were dry for him in the morning . |
| 5 | In other words , I saw the town as being completely different towards him at the outset of the film , and then in snide little ways he would turn them against him because he carried his violence with him . |
| 6 | He will do well administering the Office , but I am frankly afraid of him in the House . ’ |
| 7 | If it is a very large contract then it may be reasonable for the builder to ask for interim payments as the work progresses , and you can discuss this with him at the outset . |
| 8 | He rested the sack on the flat top of the culvert ; high above him on the slope he could hear somebody whistling . |
| 9 | Mr. Mendez had bought maybe 25 or 30 from him during the past year . |
| 10 | His exact instructions would be fed direct to him through the disc-jockey on Voice of America . |
| 11 | It was hardly fair , was it , to fire one question after another at him from the moment she got into his car at Mariánské Láznë until she got out again in Prague ? |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd been trying to see as little as possible of him towards the end of term . |
| 13 | Everyday matters seemed too much for him since the murder , they knew he could not cope with the bigger issues . |
| 14 | ‘ We 've been a team for ever , and they 'll say things like , ‘ If we 're no going to learn a lot more about this character , why do we have so much about him in the beginning ? ’ |
| 15 | Anyway he lived in the old hut after the railway was taken up , we did n't see much of him in the winter but when the spring came round he would appear again . |
| 16 | Even overpraising does , at times , lead to tantrums as a child decides that your lavish praise means that you did n't expect much of him in the first place . |
| 17 | Ferdinand believed Godoy was scheming for a regency to exclude him from the throne ; Godoy knew that Ferdinand was intriguing against him with the French ambassador . |
| 18 | We can go easy on him with the questions , but I want Nate to be impressed . |
| 19 | In seconds he found himself hovering over a group of them which swayed this way and that beneath him in the dark , not nice and firm like the dead branch set in his cage . |
| 20 | The situation was confused for him by the fact that many of the people he had seen in the church of Gesù Nuovo , the ones who had come to pray and adore , were dressed in rags . |
| 21 | For Michael Codron , it marked the start of an outstanding production career — which had seemed to bode so ill for him during the run of The Wit To Woo , a play that had no happier associations for him than it had for Ken . |
| 22 | Shelley had been conscious of him through the corner of her eye , but had deliberately made no effort to speak to him . |
| 23 | They know that he is playing a part ; they are amused by his attempts to amuse them ; and grow fond of him ; and thereby demonstrate their own tolerance to themselves ; and grow even fonder of him as the occasion of the demonstration . |
| 24 | Although she had dined with Lionel alone twice , she was happier with him in the company of others . |
| 25 | And if Stavanger had left intending to be away for months he had taken remarkably little with him in the way of clothes . |
| 26 | He had disbursed more than was customary with him on the hotel where they had spent the night . |
| 27 | All that was left of his genial friend lay cold before him on the trestles . |
| 28 | Ramsey was very rude to him in the debate . |
| 29 | The position of Battalion Entertainments Officer was no longer held by Charles within five minutes of the drop of the curtain and although that was gratifying to him at the time , in spite of the manner of his dismissal , there were additional deprivations inflicted by a scandalized CO , that were not easy to bear . |
| 30 | Anthony Quinn 's Mexican/Irish temper got the better of him on the day he married Katherine De Mille , daughter of the director Cecil B De Mille . |