Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] he the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His first posting in 1915 took him to the Toba Batak country in Northern Sumatra in time to witness the Muslim Acehnese rising against their Christian rulers ; an event which made him appreciate the approaching crisis of Islam as a focus for nationalism , and impressed upon him the urgent need for Muslim-Christian accommodation . |
| 2 | A NEW company has been set up to exploit an automatic bicycle transmission system , which is claimed to he the biggest breakthrough in bicycle gears since Derailleur invented his system in the 1920s ( New Scientist , 6 January , p 23 ) . |
| 3 | It was only when the Finance Minister , Navarro Rubio , confronted Franco personally , impressed on him the absolute and urgent necessity of devaluing the peseta , and asked him how he would feel if ration cards had to be reintroduced , that Franco reluctantly gave in . |
| 4 | What had she seen in him the other day that had been so disturbing ? |
| 5 | New friendships , as much as politics and poetry , transformed for him the final years of school . |
| 6 | He that will consider that the same fire that at one distance produces in us the sensation of warmth , does at a nearer approach produce in us the far different sensation of pain , ought to bethink himself what reason he has to say , that his idea of warmth which was produced in him by the fire , is actually in the fire , and his idea of pain which the same fire produced in him the same way is not in the fire . |
| 7 | Bill thought I 'd died on him the other night cos I was , you know , me breathing and everything , and then all of a sudden I must 've relaxed for a bit and not needed to breathe and he give me a shock he says God I thought you were dead . |
| 8 | 34.1 ; see also 32.49 ) , and with God 's supernatural eyesight is shown by him the whole extent of the Promised Land from Dan in the north to Zoar in the south , and right across to the Mediterranean sea in the west . |
| 9 | A well-made pension plan inspired in him the same emotions as an estate-bottled single-vineyard wine of a good year , and about the same amount of waffle . |
| 10 | He had brought with him the completed manuscript of ‘ The Ancient Mariner ’ , and read it to the Wordsworths for the first time , so tradition says , in one of the Alfoxden parlours . |
| 11 | So he ordered to be brought to him the finest silk cloth and brilliant threads , and made for pleasure what he had once needed to make for harsh necessity . |
| 12 | Gallaudet College conferred on him the Honorary Degree of B.D. in recognition of his work for the deaf , and he was appointed an Officer of the French Academy . |
| 13 | He would never set foot in Liberty 's , let alone Harrods — those haunts of the rich and the would-be rich represented for him the scornful laughter of the haves towards the have-nots . |
| 14 | Who had seen enacted before him the last skirmish in the war which had now given him his own longed-for kingdom of Cyprus . |
| 15 | He was shown the location of the bathroom and toilets and the nurse discussed with him the extra hygiene measures which he would require to prepare him for surgery . |
| 16 | In 805 Charles chose one chieftain to reign as his vassal king , and bestowed upon him the ancient title of Chagan , which had originally been that of the independent High King of the Avars . |
| 17 | The CBI , the British Institute of Management and the Institute of Personnel Management have all put to him the same point about single-union agreements . |
| 18 | The attack in the forest was attempted murder and he now drew the same conclusion about the dagger thrown at him the previous day . |
| 19 | The incident leading to the court case had been sparked by a beer bottle being thrown at him the previous night . |
| 20 | could not have been happier , both personally and in creating an atmosphere conducive to his work … the domestic ideal that is evident in his writings ( the family being his favourite subject of study and lecturing ) was most clearly represented by his own home life … his wife created for him the respectable and quiet familial existence which he considered the best guarantee of morality and of life . |
| 21 | Her heart had been lost to him the first moment she had set eyes on him . |
| 22 | It seemed to him now , that she had planted inside him the dark seed of failure : that from it , everything else had flowered , his inability to keep a job , his uselessness , his drinking , his failed marriage . |
| 23 | ‘ But when I see those stones here , and ponder — as I was doing when I so nearly precipitated myself upon you — ’ he laughed , gently , at his own folly and again rapiered a look to Miss D'Arcy who , in control now , returned to him the dreamy interest of the truly hooked — ‘ it was Egypt I thought on . |