Example sentences of "[vb pp] he [prep] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite clearly , Paul Fisher thought she had reported him to his superior , but she knew full well that she had n't . |
| 2 | ‘ Nearly a fortnight ’ , he complained , was spent in Sydney organising his journey to the other side of the Liverpool Range — that remote and tantalising region that had eluded him on his first visit to Yarrundi because he had had to return to his wife in Hobart . |
| 3 | Wickham had been impressed with Shildon when he had interviewed him after his amended statement . |
| 4 | It was at this place last year that Gabellah found the touch with God which has carried him to his present leadership . |
| 5 | Such a nature had carried him into his tortuous business of ruling , where he had found himself responsible for people who owned neither ships nor battle-gear , nor skill , nor health , nor ability . |
| 6 | Pieda , a powerful economic group , has attacked him for his crippling levy on whisky and says the excise tax policy on the famous tipple is ‘ against the national interest and discriminates against one of the UK 's top five exporters ’ . |
| 7 | Looking back to her first encounter with Balbinder a year ago , when she had visited him at his previous school , she said that she had been shocked . |
| 8 | A great adventure , a fitting enterprise for one who had known herself from infancy to be set apart for some rare destiny , and one that she had thought herself to have pursued courageously , successfully , with a redeeming love that had rescued even the anguished , complex , hostile Aaron , and had saved him from his wilder flights . |
| 9 | We were told that a recurrent illness had made him in his earlier days an abrasive and difficult colleague but when we knew him , the right pill had been found and the former angrily flashing eye and rasping voice of which people spoke had mellowed to a genial twinkle and an infectious chuckle . |
| 10 | Anyway , she 's seen him in his true colours now , she sniffs , and she 's lost interest in him completely . |
| 11 | Li Shai Tung stood , leaning heavily upon the silver-headed cane he had come to use so often these days ; the cane with the dragon 's head Han Ch'in had bought him on his fiftieth birthday . |
| 12 | Because Vitor had thanked him in his own language , the waiter took them both to be fellow compatriots and proceeded to chatter away in Portuguese , remarking on the sunny weather , suggesting choices of food and wine , complimenting them on Thomas 's cuteness and good behaviour . |
| 13 | He remembered the night before , when Dorian had watched him with his bright blue eyes , half wondering , half afraid . |
| 14 | He reminded her that it was kindness , as she well knew , that had got him into his present pickle . |
| 15 | Sigmar divided his land between the allied chiefs who had helped him during his many wars . |
| 16 | He 'd organised this expedition to Westminster to present the Prime Minister with his trusty iceaxe , which had helped him in his arctic endeaveours . |
| 17 | He 'd organised this expedition to Westminster to present the Prime Minister with his trusty iceaxe , which had helped him in his arctic endeaveours . |
| 18 | The appalling hardship , primitive conditions , tremendous heat on the exposed rocky outcrop , and the omnipresent spice of danger which he encountered on his first experience of active service , appealed to the adventurous and the Spartan in Leslie , and salved the conscience that had irked him during his long training and frustrating inactivity at home . |
| 19 | Deliberately , he refrained from remarking that she had called him by his Christian name for the first time . |
| 20 | He condemns the monk : at the same time as he acknowledges the monk 's ingenuity that has provided him with his sexual reward : This monk does not suffer the retributive poetic justice that is so frequently met with by lecherous clerics in the French fabliaux . |
| 21 | When Angel One had reported back to Dragon Control early on the day following the destruction of his Bethlehem House base , the Controller had been unable to keep the malicious satisfaction out of his voice when he had berated him for his ignominious failure , as he put it , in allowing his entire organisation to be destroyed by unforeseen enemy action . |
| 22 | Kohl , in eastern Germany for the first time since the December 1990 general election , was jeered and pelted with eggs by several hundred protesters on April 7 in Erfurt ( where enthusiastic crowds of over 100,000 had greeted him on his last visit in February 1990 — see p. 37260 ) . |
| 23 | Unaware that a fly has accompanied him on his maiden voyage , he turns into a sex-obsessed , sugar-addicted mutant . |
| 24 | His eye had regained its clarity , and his head its proud poise , as in the days when Norbury had accompanied him in his Prussian crusade with the Teutonic knights , long ago . |
| 25 | Madame had you see known him in his alcoholic days , when indeed such calm must often have been the prelude to him lurching into an argument , or falling heavily from his stool . |
| 26 | German idealism was born out of a rejection of British empiricism : Immanuel Kant famously declared that it was David Hume who had woken him from his dogmatic slumbers . |
| 27 | Though he now said that he was ‘ no longer very much interested in my own theories about poetic drama , especially those put forward before 1934 ’ , the old interests which had fascinated him from his first dramatic Fragments continued to grip him , leading to the fact that each of his dramas had as its ‘ sort of springboard ’ a ‘ Greek myth ’ . |
| 28 | In response , Major has only been able to parrot the phrase that has sustained him since his first day in office : ‘ All the ingredients of recovery are in place … ’ |
| 29 | Strapped for cash , he hurried inside and bartered for sex by handing over the silver watch given him by his sick father . |
| 30 | One typical story recalled the fate of the apocryphal Lupescu , who was the alleged inventor of several scurrilous stories with the Comrade as their butt and who was supposed to supplement his income with hard currency or Western cigarettes given him by his appreciative audience . |