Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] he [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The majority revere him in spite of all he 's done , ’ said a US official . |
| 2 | If your man really wants to dress up on your wedding day send him to Louise Verity 's Dressing Up Box ( 071 622 7125 ) . |
| 3 | Among the Dark Elves of Naggaroth he is known as the Reaper , to the Goblins of Red-Axe Pass he is Orcbane , and to the north the Norse know him as Mankiller . |
| 4 | And Keith is one of the few Englishmen I know who really likes Spencer , the rest dismiss him as representative of an imperial , conservative , rural English idyll . |
| 5 | In 756 Cynewulf was able to seize the kingdom from Sigeberht , confining him to the region of Hampshire where a swineherd slew him at Privett ( ASC A , s.a. 755 ) ; but he was obliged in 756–7 to witness Aethelbald 's grant of land in Wiltshire to Abbot Eanberht ( CS 181 : S 96 ) . |
| 6 | He shook his head , hardly able to bear the thought of what they were paying out to have his antique father-in-law insult him at mealtimes . |
| 7 | But next time you 're with a man warn him in advance that you like to change your mind , and play the tease , or there could be trouble . ’ |
| 8 | We argue about whether everyone has a right that the state protect him from assaults by other citizens , or provide him a decent level of medical care , or guarantee his security from attack by foreign powers . |
| 9 | But the teacher in John still comes out whenever some of the many schoolchildren who visit the centre see him at work : |
| 10 | Jargon and quirkiness assail him at times like passing attacks of cramp , but in the main he is always on the alert for a new ‘ angle ’ , always individual in expression and always ready to usher the most illuminating quotations to their correct places with the discreet poise of a butler from his chosen period . |
| 11 | Jim Dine , on a trip to Norway , describes Munch 's The Scream as ‘ more of a caricature of Angst than the real thing ’ , while Sean Scully waxes lyrical about how the colours in his Manhattan bathroom remind him of Matisse . |