Example sentences of "[to-vb] he [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The meeting was obviously intended to establish him as sole king , and may have led directly to the coronation in London by Archbishop Lyfing reported by a twelfth-century dean of St Paul 's . |
| 2 | The region in which a child is brought up may also have an effect on the propensity to demand HE although this effect will be confounded with many of the factors listed above ( see Rees , 1986 ) . |
| 3 | She knew what Papa would say because he had said it a few years ago when she had begun to reproach him and all men for their oppression of women . |
| 4 | She complained bitterly about her husband being so confused and his always forgetting what she had told him without having any insight into her own ability to confuse him and other people . |
| 5 | But then he had already had enough to keep him and many others occupied for a very long time . |
| 6 | What could be so vital to send him and two women trekking around the place ? |
| 7 | The Director General , before considering a complaint , may require the complainant to satisfy him that alternative methods of dealing with the matter have been tried and found inadequate . |
| 8 | ‘ Sharp followed him in and picked up a 12-inch knife and threatened to kill him and other staff . |
| 9 | The Secretary of State may try to dodge the issue but tonight he is asking us to allow him and British Coal to pay for the top-of-the-range redundancy levels which the interim report from Rothschild urges as a necessary prerequisite for privatisation — |
| 10 | I think it 'll be enough to get him or Lost Dinosaurs |
| 11 | From its foundation in 1855 , Hope had various professional journalists to assist him as joint editors , and its sharp , sardonic style of comment and outspokenness acquired for it the nickname ‘ The Saturday Reviler ’ . |
| 12 | Bessey was sceptical of the whole approach as little more than revived natural history , and , in order to convince him that scientific ecology was possible , Clements and Pound looked for a method of quantifying their studies . |
| 13 | ‘ At the moment , it seems impossible to convince him that any kind of action at all is necessary . ’ |
| 14 | Criticizing Vatra Romaneasca ( Romanian Hearth — a nationalist organization for the defence of Romanian interests in Transylvania ) , Tokes demanded a statement about its proposal to investigate him and nine others for " threatening the security of Romania " . |
| 15 | However , the OCP corporation , who ‘ own ’ the police , decide to rebuild him as half man , half machine ; the ultimate force in law enforcement . |
| 16 | Sometimes the terrible debt he owed her was a churning sickness in his stomach that often rushed into his throat to warn him that one day it might choke him to death . |
| 17 | This was not the moment to tell him that six people had to put money into a building society for every borrower who took it out , and some of the six must read the paper . |
| 18 | History never had the heart to tell him that great keepers use both hands . |
| 19 | He 'd gone on saying it until people complained and the landlord was forced to tell him that such talk amounted to the spreading of gloom and despondency ; it was almost as bad as careless talk and would land him in the Bridewell if the police got to hear . |
| 20 | I dashed across to the DC 's house to tell him that this train with several hundred refugees was standing in the station , and some shelter must be found for them . |