Example sentences of "[vb infin] he [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Less than a year later he was embarked on a career which would take him from the industrial grime of Taibach into films and on to the West End with hardly a pause for breath . |
| 32 | So you could , yeah , you 've got his telephone number anyway , so you can also phone him at the same time . |
| 33 | Just hope the potters do n't sell him before the next leg |
| 34 | Did you know you was gon na have him on the twenty |
| 35 | A female that moves in with an already paired male must share him with the other females . |
| 36 | I reject the hon. Gentleman 's criticism , and I can reassure him on the present position . |
| 37 | that does n't bother me , but considering it was only the second I 'd spoken to him and I did not fancy him in the least erm , it really made my skin crawl . |
| 38 | Well , I can tell you something ; I 'm on my own in this house from now on and I shall see to her bathing , and should he attempt to stop me , I 've told him what I 'll do ; I 'll brain him with the first thing I get my hands on . |
| 39 | Why could n't she treat him with the same cool indifference as he showed her ? |
| 40 | If Dad is a war movie buff you could treat him to the classic Bridge Over The River Kwai . |
| 41 | The child who is abused or belittled will often , when an adult , seek out others who will treat him in the same way as this fits in with his inner image of himself . |
| 42 | But he pledged last night that he would still be leading the team for tomorrow 's League game at Darlington even if Flashman does sack him for the third time in a year . |
| 43 | In fact he takes his role as guardian of these fey fellahin so seriously that perhaps one should regard him as the Brobdingnagian Mayor of Gumnutland . |
| 44 | Such a ban on Hateley would debar him from the European Cup final in May , should Rangers overcome Marseille and then do well enough in their last Group A match , against CSKA Moscow at Ibrox . |
| 45 | It did n't bother him in the least that she might be missing Arnie . |
| 46 | Club captain Gordon Strachan made the feelings of the Leeds players over Lukic plain last night when he said : ‘ He 's so mentally tough it wo n't bother him in the slightest . |
| 47 | She was supposed to be pregnant and perhaps Scotland might still get its heir but would it be a male prince and who would protect him over the coming years ? |
| 48 | But Ranulf was here and while Corbett bathed and changed his clothing , he wondered how Ranulf could protect him from the secret assassins now stalking him . |
| 49 | He 'd seen enough trees dose to the boundary to know he could use them to scale up , and his coat would protect him against the barbed wire . |
| 50 | Old Peter was off to a STBO Club trip to Warwick Castle and besides , we 'd pay him for the two barrowloads we liberated . |
| 51 | Mr. Davies : When the Secretary of State next meets the chairman , will he tell him of the deep anger and resentment in west Wales that British Coal is walking away from the anthracite coalfield , with its enormous reserves of high quality and saleable coal ? |
| 52 | He also carefully counts the local council votes in all the wards which affect his constituency to see what they can tell him about the likely outcome of the parliamentary election . |
| 53 | Let me tell him about the previous 12 months ' statistics which show a decrease in salmonella food poisoning and that the Food Safety Act 1990 is working . |
| 54 | With his debut feature Swoon , director Tom Kalin has put on screen everything his grandmother did n't tell him about the infamous child murderers . |
| 55 | I was n't sure , I said , but soon , very soon ; I 'd phone and tell him within the next couple of days . |
| 56 | Familiarity with the area may blind him to the obvious . |
| 57 | In 1952 in northern Greece he began making his own systematic digs , which a quarter of a century later would lead him to the royal treasures . |
| 58 | Colin inspected the room looking for the clues , looking for the vital piece of information that would lead him to the same conclusion as Smith . |
| 59 | A couple of hours ' leisurely stroll would get him to the Georgian capital shortly before dusk fell . |
| 60 | Well , that 's always supposing you can get him in the first place , because the number of people who have actually seen him , you can count on one hand . ’ |