Example sentences of "[to-vb] he [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Surely no one would need to consult him at this hour ? |
| 4 | Not going to tackle him about this business of Dora 's golf-club , are you ? ’ |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | The kung fu practitioner uses his opponent 's strength to aid him in this task . |
| 7 | It 's a it 's a very bold thing of Toby Baldwin to run him in this race it seems to me , you know I mean he definitely appeared to not like . |
| 8 | Matchsticks would have been the last one at the Pessarane Behesht camp he would have chosen to accompany him on this mission . |
| 9 | It was amusing for Charles to see him in this state , his usual poise unbalanced by childlike curiosity . |
| 10 | To see him in this way has made it possible — has made it logical and rational — to set fire to the night skies of Iraq . |
| 11 | The best thing for this chap would be to caution him for this offence . |
| 12 | One reporter who came to interview him in this period noticed how he looked as if he might collapse from " lack of nourishment , insomnia and fatigue " , and an acquaintance described him thus : " His face was pale as baker 's bread … he smoked and between exhalations he hacked a dry , deathly smoker 's hack Eliot was cadaverous . " |
| 13 | But it all nearly went horribly wrong as Benn cursed the ‘ scumbags ’ who tried to rob him of this title . |
| 14 | For he knew what Susan had done to present him with this daughter , his beautiful Kate , born just 12 years ago , six months after Simon had left their village . |
| 15 | Perhaps there were good reasons for trying to outwit him in this way ? |
| 16 | George V tried to dissuade him from this course and indeed went so far as to register a formal protest : |
| 17 | As the fellows told the King in September 1687 , " the Electing the Bishop of Oxford " was " directly contrary to their statutes , and to their positive oaths " , and although " they were as ready to obey the K. in all things that lay in their power " , they " could not apprehend it in their power to obey him in this matter " . |
| 18 | However , he was mindful of his limitations and , after some time , he was able to arrange for a ‘ godly , diligent physician ’ to come and set up a practice in the town to relieve him of this burden . |
| 19 | I went to see Eric to tell him about this conversation and found that he had come to the same conclusion . |
| 20 | It was as if time had lost all meaning , as if even that were conspiring to hasten him to this place where he would spend the rest of his life . |