Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] he [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nine months on Mr Boulton is still waiting for the two and a half thousand pounds he claims Brit-Pol owes him for the coach . |
| 2 | Japanese director Nagisa Oshima wants him for the lead in Valentino , a movie which will explore the destructive effect of fame on silent screen stars . |
| 3 | Tony Vaux follows him through the comic-horror jungle of Third World bureaucracy — and corruption . |
| 4 | He is upset at the lack of activity and howls appallingly , but when Odd-Knut tries him on the trace he is clearly crippled and in pain . |
| 5 | Now it does n't matter what I say to him or how hard Phil Boersma works him in the gym or in training — Barnes has to do it himself . |
| 6 | Mrs Chamoun guides him around the Emir Bashir 's palace at Beit Eddine ; he is clearly taken in by the mythical Lebanon of happy agrarian masses toiling away under the guidance of a benevolent leader . |
| 7 | The Guardian reporter praised their ‘ soft man/hard man routine : Nields offers the witness a comfortable chair and a cigarette , Liman slaps him round the face and kicks the chair out from underneath him . ’ |
| 8 | Ali lowers him to the ground , holding his left hand , and tries to get him to walk . |
| 9 | Now , the Talleyrand-Perigords have , as their name implies , been mighty lords in Perigord since the early Middle Ages , and in the early poem ‘ Near Perigord ’ Talleyrand is one of the powerful and menacing neighbours whom Bertrand de Born has to play off one against another , thus earning ( so Pound 's poem suggests ) the title which Dante gives him in the Inferno , ‘ sower of strife ’ . |
| 10 | Clever Trevor must be the most over rated player in Scotland ( except for Paul McStay ) and it surprises me how Taylor picks him for the England squad yet does n't give big Mark the nod . |
| 11 | But most interesting of all is the treatment given to Sidney Lee , described in his obituary as biographer , Professor of English , writer on the place of English literature in the modern university , and for thirty years editor of the Dictionary of National Biography.34 In reviewing Lee 's work , Ernest A. Baker identifies him as the complete " humanist " by virtue of his classical scholarship , his faith in beauty and reason , and his exalted hopes of human progress . |
| 12 | Mancarelli tells him about the broken window . |
| 13 | The breadhead does n't like it , but Dixie claps him on the shoulder and laughs . |
| 14 | Legendary in concept , this depiction of Barbarossa at Gelnhausen portrays him in the company of mythical beasts . |
| 15 | Anne watches him over the table in that brooding speculative way of hers , as if he were a long-pondered clue in a half-completed crossword . |
| 16 | Tempted by his ardour , Ayesha warns him of the danger if she does as he desires . |
| 17 | Easy Over 's victory at Garthorpe puts him at the head of the area Young Horse title , and Shedid has increased her lead in the mares ' championship . |
| 18 | The wording of the Chronicle implies that the same force returned in mid-1006 , and Swegen may have accompanied it and remained until the payment of tribute in 1007 ; the twelfth-century chronicler Henry of Huntingdon associates him with the ravaging at this time . |
| 19 | The cistern flushes , sending a fine spray over Philip 's shoes and trouser bottoms , and the swinging handle released by Busby hits him on the nose . |