Example sentences of "[det] [verb] he [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | She watched as Luke fought his own anger and then half threw him to the ground . |
2 | He had held a greater ambition for some years , however , and this dominated him until the summer of 1952 — he wished to be President of the United States . |
3 | Two trucks overtaking one another brushed him to the side . |
4 | She caught hold of him by the hand and half ran , half pulled him across the room to the door . |
5 | It gave him four and a half years of power without full responsibility — although he no doubt did not consider that this placed him in the harlot class . |
6 | He grabbed hold of Steve by the scruff of the neck , half lifted , half dragged him to the front door . |
7 | Hari half lifted half pushed him through the window and then she waited breathlessly for any sounds that would indicate that Will had been discovered , but when there was nothing , she moved to the door and to her relief , she saw it swing open . |
8 | This pushed him into the path of an oncoming vehicle driven by the second defendant . |
9 | For another , it was the opportunity to take proper revenge for the discomfort that Private Eye had caused him over the years , a revenge more satisfying than that afforded him by the Music Box April Fool 's joke . |
10 | Cos that allows him to the cost ? |
11 | On occasions a fortunate , or bemused , beneficiary received no less than three charters each confirming him in the legitimate enjoyment of the same right . |
12 | The wide formal boulevards of Algiers , the plane-trees with their trunks painted white , the tall graceful white-painted houses with their balconies and shutters , the shade of the square reserved for Europeans : all these reminded him of the France he had loved so much as a child ; the towns of the South — Arles or Nîmes or Avignon , some of the small towns of the Loire . |
13 | In the General Prologue the Reeve is thus described : and : and the Host responds to the serious reflections of the Reeve 's Prologue accordingly : But the Host too has appropriated a character , as judge and ruler of the tale-telling game , that takes him beyond the predictable attributes of his normal station in life : while in the fiction of the Tales , the Miller has just been attributed with the strengths of the court poet Chaucer as a narrator . |
14 | The latter provided him with the income needed to purchase a house beside the bowling green at Whitehall , and York also secured his election as MP for New Romney in 1661 . |
15 | The obituaries published in Britain , on the Continent and in America all acknowledged him as the originator of military precision dancing and reported how he had dominated a whole era of show business . |
16 | Many know him as the British jazz singer , but he is equally respected for his brilliance as a film and tv critic , modern art expert , writer and fisherman . |
17 | It all swung him towards the burning reality of Kee . |
18 | Thank you friends , we all know him as the one million pound councillor . |
19 | The link between his emerging depression and his violent behaviour , the latter defending him from the former , made sense to him . |
20 | That formed him in the womb ; |
21 | That put him on the 142 mark alongside Sam Torrance ( 72 ) , with McAllister just behind . |
22 | Then Brandt went into a tea shop , in spite of feeling that his new landlady 's fried bread for breakfast was going to be more than enough to see him through the day . |
23 | The conclusion that there was not going to be any hit him at the same time as Rincewind , whirring wildly down the passage , kicked him sharply in the groin . |
24 | Girardelli 's 60 points for third was enough to move him beyond the reach of Aamodt , no matter what happens in Sunday 's season-ending slalom . |