Example sentences of "[v-ing] he [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So his Hebrew schooling thereby climaxed ; his public participation galvanising him to accelerated study . |
| 2 | Manucci was wary of him , fearing and disliking him in equal proportions : |
| 3 | ‘ Just keeping him in good condition for you , darling . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ The Secretary of State , in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 21(1) , ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) of the Oil and Gas ( Enterprise ) Act 1982 , and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf , hereby makes the following Order : ’ |
| 5 | And I did n't begin distrusting him until this trip . ’ |
| 6 | Aymer thus stood in the midst of a ramified genealogical network relating him to many families within the French nobility . |
| 7 | She had assumed his letters were the product of his lifelong rage , the festering cancer of his childhood , driving him into unreasonable behaviour , and a tendency to see the worst in anyone who was a friend of Charles . |
| 8 | He agreed to a televised debate , hosted by Dan Rather , with Cameron Nielson Sr. Farnham was still feisty on the show , but Cameron Nielson , looking younger now than his son , was as skilled as a great matador , and finally evened the score with his former tormentor , driving him to tearful contrition . |
| 9 | Then Edgar appears , disguised as a poor knight whose ‘ name is lost ; /By treason 's tooth bare-gnawn , and canker-bit ’ ( 121f. ) , and by defeating him in single combat , completes the exposure of Edmund , the bastard being displayed as a hypocrite and pretender ( 162–74 ) , who in a fair contest — according to Renaissance optimism about the superiority of right — is bound to be defeated by the legitimate . |
| 10 | It may be noticed that insensibility both to moral appeals and to appeals to one 's future interests , imprisonment within both ‘ I ’ and ‘ Now ’ , are often combined in the same person , and that the combination is widely accepted as the strongest criterion for classing him as ‘ psychopathic ’ and exempting him from moral judgment . |
| 11 | ‘ Get out of the way , ’ snapped Rohmer , pushing him to one side as he moved towards Pearce . |
| 12 | Judge Paul Clark read social inquiry reports on Marron , before sentencing him to 2 life jail terms . |
| 13 | Early in 1971 Waddell was found guilty of committing perjury at Meehan 's trial and in sentencing him to three years ' imprisonment Lord Cameron suggested that had he told the truth there , the Meehan jury might well have arrived at a different verdict . |
| 14 | And some go on to accuse him of tunnel-vision , saying they doubt whether he ever really wanted a peaceful settlement in the Gulf ; whether he now has a view of what American policy after the war should be ; and whether his single-minded determination to win the war is blinding him to other dangers . |
| 15 | Close your eyes and you just ca n't help imagining him in Dirty Dancing . |
| 16 | Marcus was with him , his second sense acting as well as ever , warning him of any storm-troopers . |
| 17 | Both had been pardoned by Menem in October 1989 [ see pp. 36972-73 ] and subsequently cashiered , but Seineldin had been re-arrested and sentenced on Oct. 22 to 60 days ' military detention in San Martín de los Andes , 1,500 km from Buenos Aires , for bypassing the Army chain of command and writing directly to Menem warning him of growing discontent within the Army [ see p. 37853 ] . |
| 18 | All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching the faith and correcting error , for re-setting the direction of man 's life and training him in good living . |
| 19 | It was in meeting him on this ground that the British came closest to responding to him as a worthy adversary . |
| 20 | but waking him at three months ' old |
| 21 | Even so , the image of Chung Hu-yan waking him with awful news persisted , until he realised what it was . |
| 22 | He could n't call himself a violinist , he says , because , for four years , his fiddle had only three strings , forcing him to virtuosic feats of improvisation . |
| 23 | For several days , maybe up to a week before that , whatever I was doing it was leading him to that decision . |
| 24 | After coaxing him for 20 minutes , one officer grabbed the man — only to discover he had been bleeding heavily from deep cuts to his wrist and arms . |
| 25 | Arran accepted the inevitable , and made way for Mary of Guise , in return for various financial inducements for himself and his family , and a discharge securing him from any actions against him for anything he had done during the period of his regency . |
| 26 | For , whatever else , she would not marry Havvie Blaine now , and she would lose no time in informing him of that fact . |
| 27 | The office gossip had been quite useful in reassuring him on that point , and he had been able to view the uncomfortable ride in the lift with them in an encouraging new light . |
| 28 | Apart from the above , Richard Baxter records his thankfulness to God for preserving him in several accidents . |
| 29 | Giant trees were soon surrounding him on all sides and their branches made an almost solid roof high above his head , blotting out the sky . |
| 30 | My only worry is that I 'm turning him into New Boy with an unhealthy interest in housework . |