Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] 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 | The Race Relations Act 1976 makes it illegal for an LEA or governors to discriminate on the grounds of colour , race , ethnic or national origins or nationality against a pupil — ‘ by excluding him from the establishment or subjecting him to any other detriment ’ ( section 17(c) ( ii ) ) . |
| 3 | The story ends with the teacher coming over and praising him for this reaction and Little Turtle receiving a very good report card that term . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | Manucci was wary of him , fearing and disliking him in equal proportions : |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Last December they were instrumental in getting rid of Mr Gaidar and replacing him with one of those industrialists . |
| 8 | ‘ You should be ashamed of yourself , ’ she said to Pooley , ‘ aiding and abetting him like this . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Taking an iron-clad hero and facing him with some massive task will not produce that air of almost unbearable suspense you should be looking for . |
| 11 | His ability to face anything was severely tested by Mr Multhrop , who clutched him firmly by his lapels as he entered the door , as if holding him under close arrest , an impression strengthened by the sight of a uniformed policeman standing behind him . |
| 12 | ‘ I had heard about Smailovic and his Sarajevan Opera String Quartet some time ago and had the idea of offering him support by writing a piece and joining him in one of his concerts at the front line . ’ |
| 13 | The local emphasis more often needs to be on the candidate , getting his name , face , personality and position known in the community and introducing him to key groups of people . |
| 14 | And he puts , he puts his arm round him and he goes like , he 's got his arm round him and squeezing him like that . |
| 15 | Folly lay motionless , secretly revelling in her unaccustomed passivity , and watching him through half-closed eyes . |
| 16 | ‘ No , ’ said Cardiff , noting with rising anger that Rohmer was just standing and watching him with that smile on his face again . |
| 17 | Grant had time only to register the knowledge that he had lost the unequal contest , and with it his life , before the final hiraken knuckle-blow landed , breaking his nose and cheekbones , and smashing him into bloody oblivion . |
| 18 | but waking him at three months ' old |
| 19 | The jury deliberated for 10 days before acquitting Fama of firing the fatal shot , but convicting him of second-degree murder by virtue of his participation in the attack ; he was also convicted of numerous lesser charges including those relating to the unlawful possession of weapons . |
| 20 | I laughed again and tapped the screen above a formation of red and green flapping things , just as one of them , peeling off to the side of the main pack , dived down firing at Jamie 's craft , missing it with its shots but clipping him with one green wing as it disappeared off the bottom of the screen , so that Jamie 's craft detonated in a blaze of flashing red and yellow . |
| 21 | He was lovely but watching him in that living room somehow said it all . |
| 22 | Intrigue and treachery , especially from former officials , were advertised in public as besetting him from all sides . |