Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] he [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I got one what was a bit tricky I used to perhaps tie him to the gate , but they got used to it . |
| 2 | So long as a judge keeps silent his reputation for wisdom and impartiality remains unassailable : but every utterance which he makes in public , except in the course of the actual performance of his judicial duties , must necessarily bring him within the focus of criticism . |
| 3 | It is possible to imagine that one of them was brightening with the low cunning of unscrupulous greed and that the other was already stepping into that heavy gloom of shame and guilt which could only take him to the hospital or worse . |
| 4 | In the case of an only moderately cruel man , the intensification of the pain beyond a certain point will suddenly switch him to the equalization of viewpoints , and his pleasure will lapse . |
| 5 | Since then , communism has fallen , and his once-faithful compatriots will no longer welcome him with the same fervour when he arrives for his fourth visit on June 1st . |
| 6 | My belief is that Holyfield , who trades in quantity rather than quality when it comes to punches , will recover from the early storm , which could easily see him on the canvas , to win around the 10th . |
| 7 | Why do n't you just keep him in the clinic ? ’ and shrugged her angry retort aside . |
| 8 | She would just confront him with the fact that she knew about Flint Investments of New York , and see what he said . |
| 9 | if you can just fasten him in the back it 'll be smashing wo n't it ? |
| 10 | He was seventy-eight and it took four ambulance workers and Jack to finally get him in the ambulance . |
| 11 | I said I 'd just tap him on the shoulder and say : ‘ It 's all right . ’ |
| 12 | As I have the text in front of me , let me just remind him of the conclusions of the comparison between the preparedness of British young people and German young people for employment on the strength of the education and training systems in the two countries . |
| 13 | The letter is interesting , though , for the light it casts on his rooted dread of mental imbalance , and on his horrified feeling that the unsatisfactory relations which had existed between himself and his father since eariy adolescence might somehow mar him for the rest of his life : You and I are both qualified for it [ neurosis ] because we were both afraid of our fathers as children . |
| 14 | The elder has been in Normandy for four years now , Stephen can hardly count him as the staunch supporter he used to be . ’ |
| 15 | These influences will not always incline him to the view that revelation of particular legal or political material is necessarily in the public interest . |
| 16 | Although Rob , affectionately known as Mr Brora , has retired , you might still meet him in the shop that bears his name , now run by Colin Taylor , another well-respected and well-liked Brora angler . |
| 17 | Chesarynth could hardly hear him above the questions of the throng . |
| 18 | The sound rang in my ears long after he had fallen asleep : when Richard sat beside me as I lay on our bed , I thought I could still hear him through the wall . |
| 19 | And she could hardly blame him after the disaster of their own brief marriage , Laura now thought wryly . |
| 20 | BY LEAVING FOR AUSTRALIA , Gould was not only side-stepping the wash he had helped to agitate with Darwin ; he was preserving for himself a niche which would forever distinguish him from the motley and profusive competition of all other ornithological illustrators . |
| 21 | Despite her pleas Raja Pala insisted he would only return her wings if she first bore him a child , whose eyes might always remind him of the world she came from . |
| 22 | The hunt steward holding the protester even appears to deliberately push him into the path of the vehicle . |
| 23 | ‘ Did you always find him in the flat ? ’ |
| 24 | At Gorbachev 's side stood Marshall Dmitri Yazov , the defence minister who would later betray him in the attempted coup . |
| 25 | So you could , yeah , you 've got his telephone number anyway , so you can also phone him at the same time . |
| 26 | But I 'd also back him to the hilt in the face of larger difficulties . |
| 27 | Walsh added : ‘ I expect James 's ankle to be right but I 'll probably start him from the bench and let him make an explosive entrance . |
| 28 | Once through the narrows , and having explored and discounted tempting-looking passages that turned out to go nowhere — Bahia Inútil : one can almost sense Magellan growling with irritation as he named this immense body of water useless — the Captain-General entered the narrow waterway that would eventually take him into the neighbour-ocean . |
| 29 | Will you please remove him from the Chamber ? ’ |
| 30 | The tradesman who put him there knew this , and hoped that by being removed to such unfamiliar and unpleasant surroundings his debtor would soon see the sense of agreeing to do what would immediately return him to the comparative comfort of his own home , namely to surrender , in settlement of his debt , the real estate which the law did not allow the trader to touch . |