Example sentences of "[be] [verb] he [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | MILLWALL defender Colin Cooper showed why Nottingham Forest have been pursuing him with a fine display in their 2–1 win at DERBY . |
| 2 | During his time as Party chairman , many constituency officers had been to see him on a similar errand . |
| 3 | Busily he scribbled in a scratchy copperplate hand that had been taught him by a schoolmistress from the hills of Brecon his thoughts and directives in the margins of the typed sheets . |
| 4 | And I think they 'd just been hounding him for a while and that was the last straw . |
| 5 | They 're casting him as a woman . |
| 6 | Back in Fr Butler 's home parish of St Lachtain in Freshford , Kilkenny , Fr Seamus Henry said : ‘ I have n't been in touch with John for some months but I am supporting him in a pastoral way . |
| 7 | You complain that your marriage is n't a partnership , yet when you are not tearing a strip off him ( as mothers tend to do to sons ) or winding him up ( as mates do ) you are treating him like a no-talent support act . |
| 8 | Then he observed in a flat tone , ‘ What a tragedy , in that case , that you wo n't be seeing him for a while . ’ |
| 9 | Jess asked , though she 'd noticed the questions seemed to be driving him like a snail into his shell . |
| 10 | If I do n't 'ave 'im , I 'll be having 'im for a , you know , two days at a time . |
| 11 | It is not that I am inferring information about him by analogy ; without the incipient mimicry I would not be perceiving him as a man , would be seeing him as an automaton only outwardly resembling myself . |
| 12 | That is surely what most people want , and if only Mr Major had not taken Britain into the ERM and so impoverished them unnecessarily , they would be backing him in a clear majority now . |
| 13 | It was clear that she 'd been taking him for a ride , in that there was no ride in it for him at the end of the process . |
| 14 | But his turning up at such an occasion may be an explicit act of communication — a way of saying without words that he can now resist the blandishments of the bar and that his friends and colleagues are to regard him as a reformed character . |
| 15 | An apprentice fitter for the Harbour Commissioners , Mark has burst through showing tremendous talent this season and already there are some who are nominating him as a future British 125cc champion . |
| 16 | He went in acting very worried , looking at people as though ashamed that they were seeing him in a cinema . |
| 17 | ‘ Good morning , ’ said the tailor , to this company , for he believed in good manners , and the creatures were surveying him in a judging and intelligent way . |
| 18 | The bastards were kicking him like a fucking dog . |
| 19 | If you were to touch him with a pin — and he 's a boy or a girl by now — he 'd move away , he feels pain . |
| 20 | Then he saw a wonderfully pretty girl who had obviously been watching him for a long time . |
| 21 | And romance — although ideally , if she had been advising him as a florist , she would have suggested roses instead of the more exotic lilies and orchids he had chosen . |
| 22 | He had been pestering him for a while for stories about the grandparents he had never known . |
| 23 | Although the COB Rules provide that no customer agreement is required for an indirect customer as such , the purpose of these provisions is to treat him as a direct customer in the particular circumstances and so that exclusion is irrelevant . |
| 24 | But that same reader is likely to resent and disbelieve the same insight when it is told him as a fact by an author . |
| 25 | Your only hope is to use him as a shield against the rest of the gang as you break through their line . |
| 26 | The other option for a Warlord is to put him on a wyvern or other big monster , but this is n't recommended . |
| 27 | It 's treating him like a kid of five or six year old is n't it ? |
| 28 | When Colin is upset , all you have to do is have him with a teacup in his hand and his trousers not quite fitting . |
| 29 | Peter Verkhovensky is telling him about a religious conversation among some army officers . |
| 30 | I was helping him across a busy six-lane road in north London . |