Example sentences of "[vb pp] he [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been outraged when her husband left for another woman , had addressed him with religious vehemence and spoken of hell , but as time passed she had realised that life was very much more pleasant without him , that he was generous with money , and so she had , not forgiven , but ceased to revile him ; and I know she found grim amusement in my stepmother 's harassed countenance and the irritating ways of her two small children . |
| 2 | She did n't know whether it was from the night that she had overheard his conversation with her mother in the bedroom , or when she saw him fling that shovel at the young man who , she knew , could have felled him with one blow , that she had lost all respect for him . |
| 3 | More than a hundred victims have now approached him for legal advice and doctors are still seeing new cases six weeks after chryptosporidium was first identified in the Farmoor reservoir . |
| 4 | Germon and Shane Thomson are two of the gentlemen of New Zealand cricket , and one run later Germon took Thomson 's word for it that he had caught him at extra cover , and walked . |
| 5 | Kirov had missed him at first glance , understandably , for-the young pilot was clad in a pair of light grey slacks and a faintly-patterned blue sports shirt . |
| 6 | Some memory must have stabbed him at that moment . |
| 7 | Nothing in our four days on the felucca with this sullen boy had prepared us for this , as nothing could have prepared him for that afternoon in Asyut . |
| 8 | Nothing in his many years ' service had prepared him for this sort of situation . |
| 9 | Sir Charles , whose practice as a family solicitor in Hertfordshire had not prepared him for this sort of thing , was losing control . |
| 10 | I was told that I would have to take a strange aircraft that night , I learnt that my aircraft had been damaged by flak — and Italian flak to boot — and one of my lads was in hiding as he claimed I had threatened him with dire punishment if he damaged my aircraft . |
| 11 | Delaunay felt that the basis of his art was ‘ simultaneous ’ contrasts of colour , a concept which he adopted from Chevreul , whose colour theory had interested him for some time . |
| 12 | He said that ‘ the powers that be ’ had presented him with a summons and the Protestant people had presented him with that book and he thought a parallel could be drawn between the two . |
| 13 | Ramsay had not seen him since that day at Musselburgh when the good Regent Moray died and Seton had been sent off to Fife to try to hamper Balliol 's landing at Kinghorn , a gallant but unsuccessful endeavour in which Seton had been wounded . |
| 14 | Nobody has seen him since that day . |
| 15 | Have you , have you seen him since that time when you said to him about coming . |
| 16 | It 'd be nice to see Stubby again , have n't seen him since last year 's Club dinner . ’ |
| 17 | I have not seen him since this morning . ’ |
| 18 | I have n't seen him since this morning . ’ |
| 19 | Eden wrote : ‘ After three months without a comment from the Prime Minister ’ ( he had not seen him during this period , which included the ‘ internationalization ’ of the Spanish Civil War ) , ‘ I found this an astonishing doctrine , ’ |
| 20 | So impassive and peculiar had the Collector become , so obviously on the verge , everyone thought so ( you would have thought so yourself if you had seen him at this time ) , of giving up the ghost , that his face was scrutinized more closely than ever for any trace of remorse as the gorse bruiser was carried out . |
| 21 | She 'd seen him with another woman when he was supposed to be away at a conference . |
| 22 | She always forgot , when she had not seen him for some time , how he affected her . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've not seen him for some time . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I have n't seen him for some time . ’ |
| 25 | That long white robe I had seen him in that night was a sort of hospital gown . |
| 26 | A witness had seen him in deep water , shouting and waving for help . |
| 27 | Patrick stripped off and changed quickly , trying to ignore Joseph Hyde 's too intense stare ; he had long suspected his friend 's preferences for young men — although to be perfectly fair , he had never seen him in any company other than those who supported the Irish movement . |
| 28 | I usually bump into him every so often on the stairs , in one of the upstairs rooms or in the garden , but I have not seen him in some time . |
| 29 | She had never seen him in this mood before , but the expression on his face was familiar . |
| 30 | ‘ Do you know , ’ she said , ‘ I have never seen him in this room . |