Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] he [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today we can admire the determination that drove him across dangerous seas to find the ‘ New World ’ . |
| 2 | The IM reached for the telephone that linked him by direct line to Bacton . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He tells interviewer Melvyn Bragg in Sunday 's South Bank Show that acting was a therapy that saved him from self-destruction . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She dropped to her knees , and unbuttoned him with quick busy fingers . |
| 9 | After he had been held incommunicado for a month his family were allowed to visit him and found him in good health . |
| 10 | After a moment , she sat up in the cluttered bed and regarded him in mock annoyance . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They trapped him in corners , caught him and drove him into small dark spaces that rattled terrifyingly . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | I put down my lunch and followed him in frantic pursuit . |
| 16 | The unpopularity of the planned change , however , led Kim Young Sam to reverse his position and exposed him to subsequent attack by DJP supporters within the ruling party , who leaked his role in the memorandum agreement to the press . |
| 17 | Nazie , now of 155 Maxwell Drive , Pollokshields , and Ali , now of 2 Redhills , Lennoxtown , struck Mr McCallum , of 16 James Gray Street , Pollokshields , Glasgow , with hockey sticks and killed him in nearby Nithsdale Road on 6 August , 1991 . |
| 18 | Jessamy stood in the doorway and watched him in angry astonishment . |
| 19 | One was from the Arisleus Vision : ‘ With so much love did Beya embrace Gabricus that she entirely absorbed him in her own nature and dissolved him in inseparable atoms . ’ |
| 20 | His parents were keen on the work ethic and equipped him with impeccable manners . |
| 21 | Although his chains still held him tight , the slavers grabbed him and burnt him with searing irons . |
| 22 | He also allowed Salan to remain in sole possession of military and civilian authority , and treated him with ostentatious respect and cordiality . |
| 23 | Crouching down in order to finish dressing his back afresh , she was surprised to feel a lump come into her throat and saw him through sudden tears , making her confused and uneasy . |
| 24 | Experts say the house windows ‘ cushioned ’ the impact and saved him from instant death . |
| 25 | It denied Mr Yeltsin the right to hold a referendum and accused him of stirring confrontation . |
| 26 | Part of the cuff was visible and reminded him of Middy sleeping under the quilt . |
| 27 | A rank , fetid odour clogged his nostrils and reminded him of bad meat . |
| 28 | OK , we 'll flush him and put him on forced diuresis . |
| 29 | There 's a tendency to take someone like Lowe and put him with no-talent good-lookers like Robert Taylor used to be , or Tyrone Power . ’ |
| 30 | It 's a crazy thing where one child pretends to be a carrot and the others top and tail him and put him in boiling water . |