Example sentences of "[to-vb] he [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WG is alleging that Alan Carr , who remained as Alkar 's chairman , overstated Alkar 's profits by anticipating payments and inflating stock , causing WG to overpay him in subsequent acquisition instalments . |
| 2 | A man describing himself as being in the public relations business had phoned Julian Klein 's office and made an appointment to meet him on this day , but had not divulged the nature of his business . |
| 3 | Thereafter he quickly became its most renowned liberal member , leading some opponents to accuse him of judicial activism . |
| 4 | Van Der Meulen 's austere but charming character was to stand him in good stead with the Saudis . |
| 5 | But the lessons he learned from those formative years were to stand him in good stead later on when he was to understand what it meant to be a director from first-hand experience . |
| 6 | Edward had not yet covered himself with military glory , but he had revealed a sureness of political judgement which was to stand him in good stead in the greater military endeavours that he embarked upon in 1337 . |
| 7 | Charles V , showing that good judgement of men which was to stand him in good stead throughout his reign , chose Bertrand du Guesclin to command his forces , and du Guesclin defeated Navarre at the battle of Cocherel in May 1364 . |
| 8 | It had done him no good , but the same quality was to stand him in good stead when he turned away from international relations to the many domestic difficulties which the war had engendered or highlighted . |
| 9 | She wanted to watch him and then say something to find out how hard it would be to retrieve him from such self-preservation . |
| 10 | The inclusion of this clause enables him to recover all loss , however remote , ( provided he can prove causation ) suffered as a result of the sellers 's wrongful acts , since the seller has , by the clause , undertaken an express obligation to compensate him for such loss . |
| 11 | An obstacle to Buchan 's transfer was that he would lose income from his Sunderland shop , and the deal was delayed for two months while ‘ under-the-counter ’ terms were agreed to compensate him for this loss . |
| 12 | He began proceedings against the council in the county court alleging breach of their statutory duty and seeking an injunction ordering them to fulfil their duty to provide him with suitable accommodation and damages . |
| 13 | David was therefore offered inpatient care for up to 10 days to provide him with intensive support . |
| 14 | Chain , exasperated by the British failure to provide him with adequate research facilities , migrated to Rome , but was retained as a consultant by Beecham 's at a time when the firm was rapidly developing its research facilities . |
| 15 | Gqozo told the conference that the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement ( AWB ) had promised to provide him with military support if the ANC again entered Ciskei [ see p. 39078-79 ] . |
| 16 | But no matter what path an observer followed , it would not be possible to provide him with stained-glass cinema . |
| 17 | She wanted to kiss him , to soften him , to diminish him in some way so that she felt safer , more human . |
| 18 | But her urgency seemed to provoke him to lazy slowness . |
| 19 | This reasoned and ridiculous plea had no effect at all on Jem , other than to inflame him to further violence . |
| 20 | Surely no one would need to consult him at this hour ? |
| 21 | But Peyton 's heroics are unlikely to lead him to European glory . |
| 22 | I did not want to add to his troubles or to lead him into more danger . |
| 23 | Not going to tackle him about this business of Dora 's golf-club , are you ? ’ |
| 24 | Anyone wanting to render him into modern English must reckon with the possibility of having to abandon or in some way replace the metre ; and then , where Horatian Latin steps lightly , so lightly , as to the sound of flutes , in comes English with galumphing hoof , trumpeting rhymes . |
| 25 | When you ask him for leave to serve him on this mission he will welcome it as the solution to his anxieties , for even if you are only gone from Kinsai for a time , it will seem to him that you do not mean to impose upon his favour . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I have been waiting to pick him for some time but our form was not good and it was not easy on Dion living in hotels . |
| 27 | ‘ He needs someone to help him with that estate . ’ |
| 28 | They had to walk right past the tramp to enter the church and they made absolutely no attempt to help him in any way . |
| 29 | One girl wanted to cover him in whipped cream and honey and then slowly lick off every bit . |
| 30 | The kung fu practitioner uses his opponent 's strength to aid him in this task . |