Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] he [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who can rekindle a friendship should write to him at Flat 11 , Grove Court , Cooden Drive , Bexhill , Sussex or ring him at 0424–212456 . |
| 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 | I 've seen the man 's face actually resting on the foot of the horse ; but never at any time the horse stand on him , tramp on him or damage him in any way . |
| 7 | Sally-Anne Tunstall would rather drop dead at his feet than accept him after this . |
| 8 | But she 'd bite her tongue off sooner than ask him for any favours . |
| 9 | Out of a crop of precocious back division talent to whom Scotland will looking in the not-too-distant future , Gregor Peter John Townsend , who will not be 19 until April 26 , presents an amalgam of skill , pace and learning capacity that mark him as one of specially exciting potential . |
| 10 | He 's the type of horse to win the ‘ John Hughes ’ but if you could ever get him settled nicely and bring him through later , he 'd run a great race in the National again . ’ |
| 11 | Dathan and Abiram for their part reject Moses ' leadership and reproach him with these words : ‘ Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey , to kill us in the wilderness , that you must also make yourself a prince over us ? ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ He swears that the Brigadier and the Brigade Major use his establishment and supply him with this vital information . |
| 14 | 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 " . |
| 15 | His ingenious situation concerns very small homunculi from space , of the order of magnitude of body cells , who enter a human being in large numbers and colonize him to such an extent that he is eventually made up of small conscious entities . |
| 16 | Exhausted , Andrew lowers his head and their tongues meet and Andrew slides down and hugs Iain 's legs , hoping that they will become immobile and lock him in this position and never separate . |
| 17 | Ensure that the initiating member is kept informed of the progress of the engagement and copy him on all relevant correspondence . |
| 18 | Indoors he can get through almost half a show with one guitar — but then I try and get him off that , so that we do n't have the problem of breaking strings . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I thank my hon. Friend for those revealing figures , and congratulate him on all his efforts to rehouse the homeless . |
| 21 | Not only do insects rob man of his food , but they suck his blood , bury themselves in his skin and infect him with all kinds of serious diseases . |
| 22 | Mr Singh could take him to the bus when he was on late shifts and collect him on early shifts . |
| 23 | Give him a call and ask him for some winners . ’ |
| 24 | My famous dog Oggie , who has alternately made me hate and love him for 12 years , has passed his tendency for being naughty on to his children . |
| 25 | ‘ Bind his hands and feet , and cast him into outer darkness . ’ ’ |
| 26 | The manorial style was what Robert Forbes had been accustomed to portray in his early days in Hollywood , when Paramount had tagged him ‘ the young Ronald Colman ’ and cast him in half a dozen minor heroic roles with reasonable success . |
| 27 | I know now what her power is strong enough to shatter a man 's mind and cast him from this world . |
| 28 | So if , if you are a poor peasant you are thinking hold on the Party expects me to stand up to this landlord and accuse him of this this and this , actually point a finger at him when there is a chance that , you know , the Kuomintang is , is twenty miles away and they , I know they 've come into other villages as they come back , m of land to peasants.s in the form of land |
| 29 | we 'll bring them out this Sunday and take him in next Saturday |
| 30 | If , on the other hand , God should have ordained for me thus , miserable and wretched as I am , and should have called me by His grace to sit solitary and serve him in that manner , as he deigns to grant to me , shall I not persevere in that calling ? |