Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of Malcolm McLaren 's collaborators at the time of the Sex Pistols , Jamie Reid gets a mention for persuading him of the importance of situationism , and Vivienne Westwood for producing a t-shirt slogan proclaiming how boring Derek Jarman 's Jubilee was . |
| 2 | ‘ The action of the relieving officer in granting milk to the value of 5s.3d. to Ernest J. W … who is suffering from gastric ulcers , and in providing an ambulance for conveying him to Bedford for operation at a cost of £1.6s.0d. ’ was confirmed . |
| 3 | Scorned girlfriend Kathryn George Harries , 29 , wreaked her revenge at the home of her 75-year-old lover after suspecting him of being unfaithful . |
| 4 | For Loeb , it had the unfortunate result of committing him to too narrow a view of the mechanisms responsible for animal orientation . |
| 5 | She had no intention of telling him about Ian White , the medical registrar she had dated for over a year and who she had once thought might have come to mean much more in her life . |
| 6 | Flushing slightly , she rested her head back and closed her eyes , not to sleep , but with the deliberate intention of shutting him from her mind . |
| 7 | I mentioned to Kirk that I had no intention of asking him about that part of the tour . |
| 8 | Susan said that she had no intention of letting him into her life ; she did not trust him or his relationships with women , ‘ from what I observed of him , and I do n't think he felt very secure with me because of my straightforwardness ’ . |
| 9 | Anyone who had this kind of machine behind them must be important , so it had the effect of presenting him to the public as this bigger than life pop star which , if you look at his record sales at the time , he was n't , but he was becoming a media myth , some of this due to his own talent and some of it due to the MainMan hype machine . |
| 10 | In O'Reilly v. Mackman the House of Lords held that a prisoner who was seeking to challenge ( on the ground of breach of natural justice ) a decision of a Board of Prison Visitors which had the effect of depriving him of a remission of sentence , had to use AJR procedure because he had no private law right to a remission but only a legitimate expectation that the remission would be granted if no disciplinary sentence of forfeiture of remission had been made against him . |
| 11 | ‘ If I speak to Nerina , ’ said Bernard , whose blood pressure was so low there was talk of admitting him for a day or so , ‘ she might lift the curse . |
| 12 | The reasoning behind casting him as the father in The Hooded Owl became clearer by the minute . |
| 13 | It was Francis who gave Cantona his foothold in English football by bringing him to Sheffield for a one-week trial last January . |
| 14 | A SMART sales rep persuaded a thief to return her stolen car by calling him on her mobile phone . |
| 15 | Col Bradshaw said he decided against the move but decided to help Mr Jackson fill his showroom by supplying him with furniture to sell on his behalf . |
| 16 | Valerie cut short further interior monologue by gracing him with a smile and saying , ‘ I just brought Lesley-Jane some home-made soup for the interval . |
| 17 | Some entrepreneurial showmen then decided they would try to make money out of his popularity and they caught him with the hope of transporting him to London to put on display . |
| 18 | She therefore proposed that my father should pretend to fall in love with her difficult and very homesick Italian friend so that it would be clear to her parents that there was no hope of getting him for Fiona . ’ |
| 19 | He wants to talk about The Miser , so you persist with that line of questioning in the hope of drawing him on other aspects of his career . |
| 20 | The story was that Puig-Aubert would often snatch a smoke when play was downfield , and we lived in hope of catching him in such an act of Gallic braggadocio . |
| 21 | Although the case was still open the police had no hope of finding him after all this time . |
| 22 | They wanted to emulate him , and do what he was doing , and enjoy his privileges , and they kind of admired him for what he was having and they wanted . |
| 23 | He had the faculty of meeting everyone on the level , and Father had a story of seeing him at a political meeting , which he was probably chairing , walking arm in arm with the Grand Old Man himself , both talking . |
| 24 | And he blamed another girl for getting him into the drugs scene . |
| 25 | Gerald Baker , a Mandan-Hidatsa Indian who is the park ranger at Fort Union Trading Post in North Dakota , once the ‘ Times Square of the plains ’ , taught Mr Frazier how to use a double-bladed throwing axe and offered him the honour of joining him in a ceremonial sweat bath . |
| 26 | It was apparent that his attendance at the coming Party Conference must be assumed to be very unlikely , and that the question of replacing him as leader could arise . |
| 27 | Afterwards in the bar , Bender takes great delight in ribbing him over it . |
| 28 | Tom had been a great help in advising him on the farming aspects and , of course , on the teaching . |
| 29 | Today 's run in a handicap is a step up in class , but David Chapman , who trains at Stillington , North Yorkshire , has clearly brought about a change in the colt 's attitude since acquiring him from a Lambourn yard just two months ago . |
| 30 | Challenging the expert by suing him for negligence , where it is the expert , rather than the decision which is being challenged , is dealt with in Chapter 14 . |