Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] he [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the age of eight he began at 5 a.m. despite being so small that special pattens had to be made to enable him to reach the machinery , and he bore the scars of the corporal punishment inflicted on him there for the rest of his life . |
| 2 | We 've got to stop him leaving the country . ’ |
| 3 | All the activity around his earth , and the fact that there were a mere three hounds , had combined to make him think the open country might be safer today ; now they 'd given him proof that it was n't . |
| 4 | Beesley , adept in any emergency , counterfeited the pass required to let him board the facsimile Titanic , dressed himself in period costume ( can echoes prove the truth of the thing being echoed ? ) and installed himself among the extras . |
| 5 | Suppose Everett was murdered to prevent him blackening the name of a fellow Breakspearean . |