Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [verb] he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( And four Los Angeles policemen beating a black man 56 times after stopping him for speeding does not count as better law enforcement . ) |
| 2 | Though had Leith any anxieties about telling him of her feelings , then she discovered that they were unnecessary anyway , for , glancing at Naylor again , she saw that a cold mask seemed to have slipped over his features . |
| 3 | The two robbers banged on the side of the Security Express van , spread-eagled one of the guards before shooting him in the legs . |
| 4 | She weighed the advantages of telling him about Nuadu and the terrible crimson mask against the matter of his allegiance . |
| 5 | Vic keeps Baxter in suspense for a few moments , while he reviews the advantages of having him under an obligation . |
| 6 | He was suspicious of her motives in inviting him into the house — he usually got no further than the front doorstep . |
| 7 | Brian Clough , whose side are bottom of the Premier League after six successive defeats , wanted Fozzie back — three years after selling him to West Ham for £750,000 . |
| 8 | He rubs it absently , accosting strangers in the street , seeking out a friend and within minutes exclaiming that he wants to be by himself , watching children wistfully , accusing wellwishers of persecuting him with their kindness ; until at last he explodes on the brink of confession in a terrible universal cry : ‘ Oh , if only I were alone and nobody loved me , and if only I had never loved anyone ! ’ |
| 9 | He devoted much effort over many years to restoring him to his rightful place in the chemical hierarchy . |
| 10 | She made a direct assault on his leadership credentials by accusing him of planning to introduce Labour Party policies and implying that he was motivated primarily by personal ambition . |
| 11 | Efforts at turning him into a sort of global brand — a line of shoes for L.A. Gear , toys called ‘ Michael Jackson 's Pets ’ — have failed miserably . |
| 12 | If this is proved , the court makes a preliminary order , called a ‘ receiving order ’ , which protects the debtor 's property and prevents creditors from suing him without the leave of the court . |
| 13 | It is just that I am trying to find ways of helping him through the first bad spell of his career . |
| 14 | ‘ I have ways of bending him to my will . ’ |
| 15 | The diagram corresponding to ( 36 ) is therefore : With the above analysis we can now account for the paradoxical fact that the verb perceive is found more frequently with the to infinitive than with the bare version : ( 55 ) No one could possibly enter his rooms without perceiving him to be a man of wealth . |
| 16 | The determination Alexander demonstrated as a war-leader undoubtedly resurfaced on a number of occasions after Russia made peace , but explaining the emancipation of the serfs by depicting him as a latter-day Peter the Great oversimplifies Russian politics between 1855 and 1861 and says almost nothing about the shape of the emancipation settlement . |
| 17 | Nadirpur spoke to his office in Monaco and left instructions for contacting him at the IAP offices in London . |
| 18 | In an exchange of views in the weekly popular magazine Ogonek in November and December Kharchev accused officials from the CPSU and the State Security Committee ( Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti--KGB ) and Orthodox Church leaders of punishing him for his liberal stance on Soviet religious observance , and particularly on the status of the Uniate Church [ see below ] . |
| 19 | Ambulance men stemmed the flow of blood from 19-year-old David Mellor and packed his arm in cool bags before taking him to Warrington hospital . |
| 20 | An especially clear example is in the fabliau Boivin de Provins , in which the hero , Boivin , having deluded a household of whores into providing him with a meal and a girl for free , and having set them at each other 's throats , goes off to tell the provost of the town the tale , who in turn spreads the tale around , producing much mirth and laughter . |
| 21 | And when the colonel himself seemed to have taken matters into his own hands by delegating him to a job that tired him out day after day , week after week , it seemed they had been successful . |
| 22 | He could have felt superior and thought them all fools for pitying him for getting what he wanted . |
| 23 | Notably , in an unscheduled address to the Congress on May 23 , Gorbachev had rounded on Yeltsin 's Russian sovereignty proposals by accusing him of " seeking to separate Russia from socialism " and of implicitly advocating the breakup of the Soviet Union . |
| 24 | BRITISH spy Ian Spiro left bloody fingerprints smeared on his son 's bedroom walls after blasting him in the head twice with a handgun . |
| 25 | They then drove fifteen miles before dumping him on the Buckinghamshire border . |
| 26 | At the time of his resignation Miyazawa had stated that an aide , Tsuneo Hattori , had purchased the shares without informing him of the transaction . |