Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] he [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This reasoned and ridiculous plea had no effect at all on Jem , other than to inflame him to further violence . |
| 2 | Sally-Anne Tunstall would rather drop dead at his feet than accept him after this . |
| 3 | Rather than follow him into this detail , it is more important here to underline an important general characteristic which Hobbes says the claim has . |
| 4 | But she 'd bite her tongue off sooner than ask him for any favours . |
| 5 | His ability to face anything was severely tested by Mr Multhrop , who clutched him firmly by his lapels as he entered the door , as if holding him under close arrest , an impression strengthened by the sight of a uniformed policeman standing behind him . |
| 6 | Last night Darlington police said a 14-year-old boy has been questioned about the fire and has been released pending a decision whether to charge him with any offence . |
| 7 | Intrigue and treachery , especially from former officials , were advertised in public as besetting him from all sides . |
| 8 | But if the master has made him a bailee of them so as to vest him with exclusive possession , then , like any other bailee of this sort , he has it ; so , too , if goods are delivered to him to hand to his master , he has possession of them until he has done some act which transfers it to his master , e.g . |
| 9 | So as to purge him of wicked curiosity ? |
| 10 | His attachment to classical principle was not so great as to deter him from practical innovation . |