Example sentences of "[prep] he [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I call him that so I can shout down the street after him and those bastards in the Race Relations office ca n't touch me for it . ’ |
| 2 | The children saw not much of him because all day he was out at his duties and in the evenings he retired to his study to convert his lectures into books . |
| 3 | MB 's is wearing clothes that do not fit in the first example eg. This time he refers to the good opinions that people have of him as new clothes and killing the king would be like throwing away hardly worn clothes . |
| 4 | Having changed this stage in the argument to his liking , Dwight Kronweiser began contemplating his next deathless paragraph , and gazed fixedly ahead of him as polysyllabic concepts moved through his mind like heavy artillery on parade . |
| 5 | A person must also have adequate notice of any charges to be brought against him or any matters that have to be taken into account . |
| 6 | Warrants , addressed to the High Court tipstaff or the county court registrar and bailiff , can be issued to arrest a bankrupt where there are reasonable grounds for believing that he may abscond with a view to avoiding or delaying payment of his debts or his appearance to a petition or to avoiding , delaying or disrupting any proceedings against him or any examination of his affairs ( s 364(1) and r 7.21 ) . |
| 7 | The threat need not be one offering physical violence , since it may be such as to provoke another to engage in violence , although it usually will be an offer of force of some kind leading the victim to believe that violence against him or another person is about to be used or provoked . |
| 8 | Keating was arrested on Sept. 18 after the Los Angeles district attorney issued a 42-count state indictment against him and three others . |
| 9 | She melted against him and this time he simply gathered her closer . |
| 10 | He was accused of armed robbery of nearly £200 in January 1976 but 15 months later charges against him and 20 others were dropped . |
| 11 | The door knob turns behind him and two men step silently into the room . |
| 12 | William Tanner walked into the flat with Danny following behind him and both men bent over in turn to kiss Carrie on the cheek . |
| 13 | He has eight years of GPs behind him and more crashes than he 'd care to remember . |
| 14 | That seems to have been inspired by his father 's excellent library , as well as the spiritual contact with him that such studying brought . |
| 15 | ‘ I shall ever remember the two or three hours conversation I had with him that beautiful May morning he died , before I woke the rest of the family . |
| 16 | Shakespeare evidently shared Donne 's dissatisfaction with the extant convention , agreed with him that unfulfilled love was a trope that could only lead to a limited number of stereotyped situations . |
| 17 | Again she considered that she may be falling in love with him but this time she was not so quick to dismiss it . |
| 18 | She often quarrelled with him after these family occasions and threw the remains of the feast at him . |
| 19 | He had his widowed mother living with him and two sisters who had to get husbands ; both Mr James and Constanza say that it would have been considered an almost monstrous act of selfishness if the prince had insisted on marrying one of the Montecativi or Roccarosa girls for their beaux yeux . |
| 20 | I agree with him and one day I shall join him and his friends and travel this world together . |
| 21 | I can cope with him and everyday life now . |
| 22 | Therefore the woman , not having had the same training as a man can not possibly demand the same wage ; also not being physically as strong , she can not compete with him where heavy lifting is required . |
| 23 | There was nothing under him but thin air and the abyss of bankruptcy . |
| 24 | ‘ Thank you , no , ’ said Sally-Anne impatiently ; she needed no condescension from him or any man . |
| 25 | He told Aenarion that if he sought such corrupt power he would bring eons of tragedy to the Elves , that he and his line would be accursed to the last generation , that the gods would turn their faces from him and that Aenarion himself would surely die . |
| 26 | So far , an answer on that has been lacking from him and other Ministers . |
| 27 | To be sure , the president is usually the dominant partner in the legislative process ; most major legislative initiatives come from him and little legislation of real consequence is likely to pass without his support . |
| 28 | Webb-Bowen had about him that healthy gloss which derives from subscriptions paid annually by Coutt 's banker 's order to either BUPA or PPP . |
| 29 | There was a light about him that all onlookers could see . |
| 30 | There was a glow about him that all men had when they were around Paula . |