Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] he [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I have worked for him for more than three years and have come to admire him both as a doctor and a man . |
2 | He wondered if they had come to take him away to a Home for ungrateful and unwanted children . |
3 | His petty-bourgeois family background , his status as an intellectual conversant with the rites of bourgeois education , values and culture , his sophisticated literary and critical talents as a writer , all conspired to set him apart from the communist party leadership and rank and file members alike . |
4 | After he is wounded in this staged hunt , perhaps she could be seen to nurse him daily with iodine and mercurochrome , out of remorse , but in the process establishing the first physical contact . |
5 | Similarly , it may take no more than a momentary pang of empathetic distress to convince me that if I could become as aware from the sufferer 's viewpoint as from my own I would be spontaneously moved to help him even to my own cost . |
6 | He handed over to poor Sir Alec Douglas-Home a party legacy of dwindling popularity , and although that amiable and resolute character fought with vigour and gallantry to maintain his position , the tide had sufficiently turned to abandon him gently on the beach , leaving Harold Wilson afloat in waters so shallow that the most gentle paddle hit the sand . |
7 | I 've got to get him away from here for at least three or four hours . |
8 | In the silence of the return journey she had almost slipped back to tranquillity and , oddly enough , it had helped to have him there beside her . |
9 | He had also stolen Cranborne School 's prize physicist , Khan , and had offered a free place to Simon Britton , a boy whose mother had had to take him away from Cranborne because of her financial circumstances . |
10 | Trainer Nigel Twiston-Davies had intended to send him straight to the Cheltenham Festival , but the lure of the £25,000-added Cavalier Chase has proved too tempting . |
11 | She might feel compelled to attack him physically at any moment and he was alarming enough to convince her that he would lift her in the air , shake her like a rag doll and toss her over a crag . |
12 | Louise had n't wanted to send him away at all . |
13 | His younger daughter remembered being taken to visit him there by her mother . |
14 | If he loses he still wo n't quit but the FA could be forced to throw him overboard in a latter-day Boston tea party . |