Example sentences of "[be] [verb] he [prep] the " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | So while helping my old friend , I would be losing him at the same time . |
| 32 | Er , no I think I 'm having him on the Monday cos she 's going to have her hair permed |
| 33 | Erm , well , I assume you mean out of recent Leeds United players ( you ca n't seriously be comparing him with the real greats of football can you ? ) . he could certainly hit it , and sometimes goal-bound ( and quite often into the wall or behind for a goal kick ) . |
| 34 | I could be putting him on the spot . |
| 35 | I shall be watching him on the television . ’ |
| 36 | What might be watching him from the shadows ? |
| 37 | Though he was more like his old self , many suspected they were seeing him for the last time . |
| 38 | It was back in England for ( Sir ) Alexander Korda [ q.v. ] in 1933 that Laughton made his screen name in The Private Life of Henry VIII at the start of a sequence of major cinema biographies ( The Barretts of Wimpole Street ( 1934 ) , Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ) , Rembrandt ( 1936 ) , and the unfinished I Claudius ( 1936 ) ) , which were to see him at the very peak of his reflective , anguished talent for larger-than-life monsters of reality . |
| 39 | Towards the end of his playing career when he was with Hibs and contemplating a move to the Orlando Lions , a short lived soccer team in Florida , Rough 's business interests not only brought him appalling bad luck but imposed a series of financial set-backs that were to affect him in the years to come . |
| 40 | You were to kill him in the alleyway and capture the Time Sprout . |
| 41 | But he might not always meet her calling or her waiting , for men , too , were bidding him to the sound of axe and plough and sword . ’ |
| 42 | Crowds were to provide him with the project that kept him busy for decades , the writing of Crowds And Power . |
| 43 | We were to meet him at the airport , and when we were making all the arrangements with him on the phone , he said , ‘ Are you sure you 'll be able to recognize me ? ’ |
| 44 | He pulled out a burnet leaf and ate it slowly , concealing his fear as best he could ; for all his instincts were warning him of the dangers in the unknown country beyond the warren . |
| 45 | We were escorting him to the door when there was a loud explosion at the side of the house . |
| 46 | She glanced up at him , feeling oddly shy , almost as though she were meeting him for the first time with no doubts , no mistrust , between them . |
| 47 | But examples of this kind were pointing him in the direction he wanted to go . |
| 48 | ‘ If they were taking him to the police station , why did they walk three miles . |
| 49 | In the centre of the piece was a carving of a shoemaker resisting four shaggy devils who were dragging him from the embraces of what at first Athelstan thought was a young lady but , on looking closer , -realised that with his tail and close-cropped hair , it was a depiction of a male prostitute . |
| 50 | The repeated attacks of this last disease were to trouble him for the rest of his life . |
| 51 | He felt as if Simon were lifting him by the collar and dangling him so that his feet were off the earth and his toes straining to reach something . |
| 52 | It would be sad if ill-health were to deprive him of the chance to become the first democratically-elected president of South Africa . |
| 53 | What struck me was the way in which he seemed to have little difficulty not merely in coming down to my level but in entering into my feelings , as if I were telling him about the most natural matter in the world . |
| 54 | Veterans mostly of conferences and corporate operations where the good time masked a definite hidden agenda , they were steering him through the introductions deftly and with an impressive display of memory . |
| 55 | Indeed one might argue that talk of Jesus as our ‘ brother ’ , emphasizing his humanity , makes Jesus more intrusively male than if one were casting him in the role of the cosmic Christ . |
| 56 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 57 | Yeah i well he 's just distressed cos I think Gill 's phoning him in the morning and she said she 'd give him a lift to the hospital . |
| 58 | The Royal Bank of Scotland is suing him in the High Court to recover the money , which includes a £500,000 overdraft . |
| 59 | Come on you lot you know where he is get him on the phone I want to talk to him . |
| 60 | So the best thing is , is get him by the scruff of the neck and ask him what 's he gon na do about them things that you fell over twice ! |