Example sentences of "he [verb] an [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one thing that would have persuaded him to accept an invitation for the Stuttgart Ballet to go to South Africa would have been if he could show a really good black dancer working alongside the whites . |
| 2 | On many a winter morning I jumped out of bed and put a letter of his in the fire , feeling it would be wrong to allow it to survive ; and when some years ago I was asked by a distinguished man of letters if I could help him to write an account of Maurice |
| 3 | The Dutch tradition of realism , together with his never-sleeping Protestant conscience , forced him to find an outlet for his visions and fantasies subversively , under cover of symbols , by depicting men at work , portraits of common people , street scenes and fields as everyday subjects in an ordinary light , and simultaneously as expressions of a state of mind . |
| 4 | Towards the end she watched him peel an apple with deliberate care . |
| 5 | Stevenson was deliberately seeking a plot that would allow him to explore an aspect of human psychology . |
| 6 | It must have been humiliating for her to accept that after helping him to create an empire within show business , he should choose to spend his time with a younger woman . |
| 7 | In 1720 he speculated successfully in South Sea stock , and this enabled him to purchase an estate in East Sheen and a town house at Queen 's Square , and to consider retiring from business . |
| 8 | But even then they kept him waiting an hour before arresting him . |
| 9 | The defender averred that as a result of that announcement he telephoned Macfie & Alexander , speaking to Mr Rae , one of the partners , and told him to expect an offer of £70,000 from Ferguson & Forster and that he instructed Mr Rae that when the offer was received , he ( the defender ) would consider its terms and if he found them satisfactory he would instruct Mr Rae to accept the offer . |
| 10 | It was here that Tony gave me my ring and told me that my funghi marinati was the best he 'd ever had in spite of him getting an earful of it . |
| 11 | Robert , gasping for breath in his arms , wondered whether Mr Malik 's request for him to give an account of himself was entirely motivated by concern for his staff . |
| 12 | But one friend , Zak Ove , son of film-maker Horace Ove , encouraged him to pursue an interest in photography . |
| 13 | I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his intervention — although anything that the Government nationalise they may flog off at a profit at a later date , so I ask him to keep an eye on the situation . |
| 14 | Aston Villa in 1912 , the player claimed damages for loss of employment , because the club had put ‘ too high ’ a transfer fee on him which prevented him taking an offer from another club . |
| 15 | Mozart met Count Seeau who advised him to seek an audience with the Elector at once , and , if that were not possible , to write to him . |
| 16 | After the burial , Corbett sent the equally frightened Ranulf off to the castle , reassuring him that all would be well and authorising him to seek an audience with Bishop Wishart . |
| 17 | Place the loop of the rope on your volunteer 's right arm and tell him to place an arm in his pocket . |
| 18 | Somes 's prominence and wealth led him to develop an interest in the colonies , and he invested in the Western Australian Company , the North American Colonization Society of Ireland , and , above all , the New Zealand Company . |
| 19 | At sixteen , his father encouraged him to take an apprenticeship in the local handmade furniture shop . |
| 20 | He refused all attempts to force him to order an invasion of Naggaroth . |
| 21 | It is no offence for him to engage in other sexual acts with her , unless these are otherwise unlawful , although it is an offence for him to commit an act of buggery or gross indecency with a male patient who is mentally disordered . |
| 22 | Frankie tells the audience how the Producers had wanted him to make an entrance by sliding down a fireman 's pole ! |
| 23 | ‘ It was quite usual for me to take on this sort of job but it was n't usual for him to make an appointment for me and only tell me at the last minute , especially when it meant working after hours . |
| 24 | He made an error of judgement , albeit one which is understandable , when he pumped additional liquidity into the system following the stock market crash of October 1987 . |
| 25 | He served as a member of the royal commission on Indian expenditure ( 1895–1900 ) but he made an error in appearing as a witness before the other commissioners . |
| 26 | It was , however , not these controversial surface colour applications upon which his reputation was based , but the almost painterly effect of the chisel with which he made an equivalent to human flesh and hair out of hard , cold marble . |
| 27 | He made an inventory of monuments and recorded the history of the places he visited . |
| 28 | Yet when Henry abolished the right of wreck throughout his dominions he made an exception of Brittany . |
| 29 | He made an arrow from a branch of mistletoe and gave this to the blind god , Hoder , saying he wished him to test it . |
| 30 | In 1964 Peter Murray wrote an introduction to a new edition , in which he made an observation about the passage on Bernini 's St Teresa , the sculptural group in Rome which is a key work of the Baroque : |