Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [verb] he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Ramsey was to be Archbishop of Canterbury , what was wrong with leaving him in the weighty see of Durham until the day came ? |
| 2 | The activities of a fan become intelligible if we can interpret them as being instrumental in establishing him in a particular role , or if such activities can be shown to be acceptable demonstrations of character and worth among his peers . |
| 3 | She was also instrumental in nudging him into giving 25 per cent of the positions in the Socialist Party to women . |
| 4 | She had been instrumental in putting him in touch with Liza although , as things had turned out , he could not help thinking that it might have been better if he had never bumped into her that day in Piccadilly . |
| 5 | Because of the apprehension of a breach of the peace on the part of the inspector , it was held , there arose a duty on him to prevent a breach of the peace , and because the appellant had sought to hold the meeting in defiance of his instructions , she was guilty of obstructing him in the execution of his duty . |
| 6 | Although she was nervous of putting him to the test , she knew that , sooner or later , she must . |
| 7 | Not content with blackguarding him in the columns of the local rag , him and his silly daughter 's bum , the one-time Chief Citizen of the Borough had been up to no good with a girl young enough to be Grace 's sister , and in the Grand Hotel , and at a Conservative Party conference of all places . |
| 8 | Providing the valuer had been honest and diligent , the court should be cautious before convicting him of professional negligence merely because he had failed to be the first to spot a ‘ sleeper ’ . |
| 9 | It is closely associated with Kant 's assertion that there are ways of treating a man which are inconsistent with recognising him as a full member of the community so that such treatment is profoundly unjust . |
| 10 | He did n't tell her that they had brought him here unconscious after torturing him in the main building . |
| 11 | The ward nurses will need information from the patient and his family and from other people who may be involved with helping him in the community . |
| 12 | The office gossip had been quite useful in reassuring him on that point , and he had been able to view the uncomfortable ride in the lift with them in an encouraging new light . |
| 13 | Cross-examined by William Dunlop , defending , Mr O'Donnell agreed that it was possible one of the men had not become involved in attacking him at the quarry . |
| 14 | Mrs Westaway is usually very good at keeping him under control , but he must have given her the slip somehow . |
| 15 | As he had been delirious on arrival , the authorities , knowing that his landlady , Mrs Avery , had been responsible for getting him into hospital , simply put down her name as next-of-kin . |
| 16 | Whatever their differences , could Huy hold himself responsible for sending him to such an end ? |
| 17 | But predators came in various shapes and sizes , and he was troubled by the knowledge that any rescue party from the Simonova could also include the person who was responsible for dumping him in the escape pod . |
| 18 | She had no intention of saying anything else ; in fact she had been quite undecided about answering him at all , but he looked just a bit too angry for outright defiance and he was decidedly bigger than she was . |
| 19 | Miss Polly took his words as a compliment and treated him to a coy smile of invitation , meant to suggest that he should sit beside her ; but Sean had already marked Herbert Fraser for that position of honour , stopping just short of pushing him to the ground . |
| 20 | For some unaccountable reason the horses drawing the cart stopped just inches short of crushing him to death . |
| 21 | Much of Muskie 's political fame was earned from his leadership in environmental affairs , which was now being eroded not only by Nixon 's proposals but also by a Ralph Nader report on air pollution which strongly criticized Muskie 's role in the past and just stopped short of accusing him of selling out to industrial polluters ( Lundqvist , 1980 ) . |
| 22 | Short of battering him on the head with a blunt instrument — the thought held immense appeal , and she savoured it for a long moment , before reluctantly putting it on hold — she could n't come up with any way out of the present situation . |
| 23 | She was used to seeing him in pyjamas by now ; also , by now , she quite understood why he would n't really want people to see him . |
| 24 | Nathan , on the other hand , we are sure , did not feel inferior as he served under David 's rule and was not the least bit reticent about confronting him with his sin . |
| 25 | The historian and jurist Boris Chicherin , who was predisposed to like him , believed that Alexander had been denied " an upbringing capable of providing him with guidelines in the precarious circumstances in which he found himself " . |
| 26 | He has at most two years before the next presidential election in which to try to put together a new centre left movement capable of carrying him into the president 's seat . |
| 27 | Why kill the one man capable of leading him to Bernard ? |
| 28 | To refuse to pay that would be tantamount to accusing him of lying , and such an accusation can not be countenanced in these circumstances . |
| 29 | As I had come to know a number of rectors and vicars in the course of my journeys , for reasons which I have mentioned , Eliot questioned me about what he felt might he a mounting danger , namely that the Church might seek to increase by chauvinism what it appeared to be losing in spirituality : and indeed the vicar of my own village had been upbraided by a group of parishioners for not preaching sermons directly furthering the war effort , which Eliot said was tantamount to making him into an unpaid official of the MOI . |
| 30 | Experience had taught Stirling that the RAF were generally much more co-operative about supplying him with reliable intelligence . |