Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] he [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She now hopes that the world will no longer expect to see her on the arm of her husband , hugging or kissing him in public , behaving like a loving wife . |
| 2 | She knew him to be Alexander Rokovssky , the dark tool of autocratic monarchs and a fanatical servant of Tsarism , a man who could slit another 's throat or shoot him at point-blank range without any change of expression . |
| 3 | A definition of that sort might allow the person addressed to take into account the fact that the person making the utterance was seeking to make a serious point , or engage him in reasoned discussion , or was acting unintentionally . |
| 4 | He wondered what Berowne was expecting him to do ; find a potential blackmailer or investigate him for double murder ? |
| 5 | A volunteer normally offers to spend two or three hours per week as a companion to a former patient and may go out with the person or help him with specific tasks . |
| 6 | Today we can admire the determination that drove him across dangerous seas to find the ‘ New World ’ . |
| 7 | The IM reached for the telephone that linked him by direct line to Bacton . |
| 8 | So far as Pitt was concerned , America came first , but he was as delighted as anyone when the English force protecting Hanover won a distinct success against France at Minden , which might have been decisive if Lord George Sackville had not disobeyed an order to charge in a way that exposed him to conspicuous , though not permanent , disgrace . |
| 9 | He was always happy to help her keep her hair beautiful , even when it was time to use the greenish-brown powder that reminded him of warm cow-dung when she mixed it with water . |
| 10 | He tells interviewer Melvyn Bragg in Sunday 's South Bank Show that acting was a therapy that saved him from self-destruction . |
| 11 | Sheffield Wednesday 's player-manager watched his side claim a place in the last eight of the Coca-Cola Cup by destroying the club that sacked him in controversial circumstances . |
| 12 | Although all this assured him a footnote in the history of British science , it was his intimate association with one of the most celebrated scientific forgeries that rescued him from relative obscurity . |
| 13 | D. B. Sweeney plays Doug Dorsey , a working class lad whose bright future in the National Hockey League is ended by a playing accident that leaves him with permanent eye damage . |
| 14 | She furnished Eliot with the title and central concept of his poem , but was otherwise more important for summarizing and reminding him of other people 's ideas , such as those of E. K. Chambers speaking of literary forms encompassing ‘ fragments of forgotten cults ’ . |
| 15 | Venice and Ancona , Naples and Sicily , Florence and Bruges would watch and listen and notify him in due course of their passage , as well as of other things . |
| 16 | Its aim is to do something in the life of the person who reads it , as well as to capture his aesthetic interest and supply him with historical and theological information . |
| 17 | An eruption of hissing spluttery steam , carrying wood and metal splinters and crusty bubbles of burnt floor , violently emits from his thought-crater and covers him in gritty black rubbish , the cruel knowledge flashes through to his spine spring which , uncoiling viciously , bashes his head on the back of the seat . |
| 18 | She dropped to her knees , and unbuttoned him with quick busy fingers . |
| 19 | Manucci was wary of him , fearing and disliking him in equal proportions : |
| 20 | After he had been held incommunicado for a month his family were allowed to visit him and found him in good health . |
| 21 | After a moment , she sat up in the cluttered bed and regarded him in mock annoyance . |
| 22 | The internal structures and emotional attitudes of the party at this time coincided exactly with his own mental state , and provided him with intellectual strength and emotional security . |
| 23 | A few says later the Shah sought assurances from the US Embassy that he was still welcome in the United States cabled Rabat to say , " we assured the Shah publicly as well as in private messages that he would be welcome in the US should he choose to go there , and that there should be bo doubt whatsoever as to our willingness to receive ( him ) and provide him with appropriate protection " . |
| 24 | It may be noticed that insensibility both to moral appeals and to appeals to one 's future interests , imprisonment within both ‘ I ’ and ‘ Now ’ , are often combined in the same person , and that the combination is widely accepted as the strongest criterion for classing him as ‘ psychopathic ’ and exempting him from moral judgment . |
| 25 | They trapped him in corners , caught him and drove him into small dark spaces that rattled terrifyingly . |
| 26 | All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching the faith and correcting error , for re-setting the direction of man 's life and training him in good living . |
| 27 | She ached with sympathy for him , and if this had been Christmas , or any time in those months when she had felt they were friends , she would have pulled him into her arms and soothed him with soft hands and whispered words . |
| 28 | The ruling that there should be no prosecutions destroyed the hope that such court proceedings might uncover enough information to stir a public demand for a wider and more thorough inquiry into the background to the conspiracy to murder an innocent man and to frame him with stolen goods . |
| 29 | A letter from Mary Evans , possibly written at George Coleridge 's suggestion , begged him to give up his plans for emigration , and addressed him with painful tenderness as ‘ her best-beloved Brother ’ . |
| 30 | To improve his nutritional state and get him into clinical remission before surgery he was given Elemental 028 but immediately became systemically unwell and developed diarrhoea and vomiting . |