Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] he [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nadirpur spoke to his office in Monaco and left instructions for contacting him at the IAP offices in London . |
| 2 | Suspended for a week by the club , fined £2,000 and dropped following misbehaviour at a supporters ' dinner , Merson spoke of the 89th-minute winner that restored Arsenal to the top as a personal thankyou to Arsenal 's players and staff for assisting him on the road to recovery . |
| 3 | It is worth reminding him of the fact that Japan 's economy grew by 4.5 per cent. , and ours shrank by 2.5 per cent . |
| 4 | BRITISH spy Ian Spiro left bloody fingerprints smeared on his son 's bedroom walls after blasting him in the head twice with a handgun . |
| 5 | REFEREE Peter Jevons threw a dictionary , so to speak , at Jeremy Tanner , 21 , after booking him during a match between Derbyshire village side West Hallam and local rivals Alvaston . |
| 6 | He did n't tell her that they had brought him here unconscious after torturing him in the main building . |
| 7 | Rachel Still , 23 — who was living with a boyfriend in Wilmslow , Cheshire — drove off with husband Phillip after meeting him for a talk . |
| 8 | After meeting him for the first time , Vincent thought that he must be wealthy . |
| 9 | Michael Pearson , 19 , of Leeds , battered 19-year-old Dean Fisher to death after meeting him in a pub . |
| 10 | LITTLE Miss Bossy Emma Gardner keeps a firm grip on her brother after saving him from the clutches of a child abductor . |
| 11 | Young members of Prescot Swimming club gather round Stephen Orford , a member of the British Wheelchair basketball team , after presenting him with a cheque for £750 on behalf of the British Wheelchair Sports Foundation . |
| 12 | After approaching him on the street and ushering him into the house he told the boy ; ’ Welcome to the Devil 's Kingdom ’ and threatened to kill him if he did nt co-operate . |
| 13 | Josh had to be squeezed into Clare 's tight weekday schedule : after taking him to the babysitter in Pimlico , she caught another bus to the shoe shop where she worked . |
| 14 | Earlier , driver Geoffrey Wellens had stopped to ask Mr Thompson if he was alright after spotting him on the road . |
| 15 | VERA Daniels , 66 , was reunited yesterday with long-lost brother John Stokes , 63 — last seen in 1942 — after tracing him to a village TEN MILES from her home in Newcastle-under-Lyme , Staffs . |
| 16 | After spying him through the kitchen window with Mrs Files , so much himself , so much not Francis , I thought I did n't want to see him at all . |
| 17 | A WHEELCHAIR-bound man beat his love rival to death after luring him into a field , a court heard yesterday . |
| 18 | A MAN was jailed for six years at the High Court in Glasgow yesterday for his part in attempting to murder a man after luring him into a night of torture . |
| 19 | After leaving him on the bedroom floor , he returned to throw a jug of water in his father 's face . |
| 20 | Mr Sergei Shakhrai , a key Yeltsin adviser , said he was instigating legal proceedings against Mr Khasbulatov for insulting him in an interview . |
| 21 | Rodrigo marched into Valencia in triumph , only to learn that his old adversary Berenguer of Barcelona — who had never forgiven the Cid for capturing him in an earlier campaign — had formed an alliance with the Moorish lord of Lerida and El Cid 's own sometime ally Mostain of Saragossa . |
| 22 | DAVE BASSETT last night thanked old pal Bobby Gould for saving him from a possible FA rap . |
| 23 | IPSWICH TOWN general-manager John Lyall will thank Terry Venables tomorrow for saving him from the wilderness . |
| 24 | But last night , his angry wife accused the Government of using him as a scapegoat . |
| 25 | It is just that I am trying to find ways of helping him through the first bad spell of his career . |
| 26 | He had the faculty of meeting everyone on the level , and Father had a story of seeing him at a political meeting , which he was probably chairing , walking arm in arm with the Grand Old Man himself , both talking . |
| 27 | ‘ It was n't so much the shock of seeing him in a metal cage , it was the atmosphere of the place . |
| 28 | The climax of his tale is to profess to excuse Cassio — ‘ But men are men ; the best sometimes forget ’ ( 237 ) — an extremely effective way of indicting him in the eyes of those present . |
| 29 | She thought of ringing him on the off chance of catching him at the flat , but shelved the possibility as unlikely . |
| 30 | If your foe stoops on a ground unit and is locked in combat you 'll have a good chance of catching him in the flanks . |