Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] he [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She only fought him for a moment or two . |
| 2 | I used to watch him sleep , wondering what bloody crimes lay in his past , and knowing that I alone protected him from a horrible death . |
| 3 | And Burrows senselessly followed him after a late challenge on Khlestov . |
| 4 | I only saw him for a moment , but my blood seemed to freeze . |
| 5 | To the distress of his family he rejected the Unitarian name in later life but not the ministerial title , though others , as he admits , ‘ only saw him as a Unitarian minister ’ . |
| 6 | This , remember , was said only a few months after Battiston of France suffered a serious neck injury when Schumacher , the West German goalkeeper , brutally bodychecked him in a World Cup semi-final . |
| 7 | Her betrothed leapt back to his feet , his hand going to the knife at his belt , but Cranston just dismissed him with a contemptuous flicker of his eyes . |
| 8 | She no longer provided him with a defence against his own yearning for safety which had been so well hidden behind his off-hand behaviour . |
| 9 | I think you just caught him at a bad moment . |
| 10 | In welcoming him , the party thus welcomed him as a stereotype . |
| 11 | His forcefulness , intelligence and personality soon established him as a national leader . |
| 12 | Normally this was Beth 's favourite time … when her son was lying sleepy in his bed and she would read him a story about creatures and little people ; gentle stories that soon sent him into a peaceful slumber . |
| 13 | To her relief , although it was very faint , she found a pulse , and quickly she loosened his tie , unbuttoned his shirt and somehow manoeuvred him into a better position , all the while talking to him , reassuring him , telling him he was safe . |
| 14 | Just glimpsed him for a moment , not to be certain . |
| 15 | He was actually no more than a deputy , but John always used him as a sounding board for his new ideas and always considered his advice very carefully . |
| 16 | Patients at Dr Jordan 's 1,530-strong practice yesterday described him as a ‘ conscientious grafter ’ . |
| 17 | Here they are reinvoked to discredit Wilde , yet in a way which still acknowledged him as a threat . |
| 18 | The congregation usually watched him with a perverse relish which he mistook for devout attention , but this Sunday afternoon there was palpably an added curiosity to see how well he managed to live down the shaming comedy he had enacted on horseback a few days before . |
| 19 | Yes , I could see by the way she grumbled about Wilson that she loved him and , although he was over eighty at the time , still saw him in a romantic light . |
| 20 | The other five Israelis escaped , but one , Yair Yitzhaki , was again abducted by another JKLF group which eventually released him to a group of journalists on July 3 . |
| 21 | This not only kept the suit in good condition and therefore prolonged its life but also provided him with a smart outfit always ready at short notice , as now . |
| 22 | I later found him in a dressing room with a cigarette in his hand , but he was shaking so much he could n't light it . ’ |
| 23 | An elderly office boy wordlessly showed him into a narrow , bumf-heaped office that contained , with difficulty , seven people . |
| 24 | It also presented him with a number of problems . |
| 25 | His service record before World War I , a period during which he specialized in torpedo work , repeatedly commended him as a ‘ most zealous officer ’ with ‘ excellent tact and judgment ’ . |
| 26 | A few days before his death Sviridenko 's investigation supposedly led him to a very senior government official involved in purchasing art works . |
| 27 | Apparently she often approached him with a picture book or toy to engage him in play with her . |
| 28 | He often described him as a truly Christian Prince . ’ |
| 29 | The ubiquitous billboard portraits of President Saddam often showed him in a green uniform . |
| 30 | Yeah , oh it really knocked him for a burton , you see his , you see Clifford and him , with this boy that 's had their , their , his son that was |