Example sentences of "he [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he had hoped that a row might spur him on to a direct , hands on approach to murdering Elinor , Henry was disappointed . |
| 2 | He was approached by the Huddersfield directors early in 1921 and the offer spurred him on to a determined effort to prove his innocence in the Leeds City affair . |
| 3 | Three months in America in 1914 , raising funds for St Enda 's and mixing with hard-line Irish-Americans , set him single-mindedly on a revolutionary course . |
| 4 | Tying meant fastening him in with a feeding tray . |
| 5 | Yes , well Tony Primmer 's one of the riders from Eastbourne that we managed to pick up because we can get him in on a low point average . |
| 6 | ‘ I need to see Mr Patterson , ’ I said as if I was letting him in on a big secret . |
| 7 | By now it must have been obvious to her host that she had put him down as a direct descendant of Casanova , Don Juan or Jack the Ripper — or possibly a combination of all three . |
| 8 | Well I think that 's quite I mean I 'd probably knock him down to a hundred anyway . |
| 9 | Probably because it was a way of roping him in for the future , Malcolm invited him down to a few rehearsals . |
| 10 | Last of his stick to leave the C130 , Grant 's rate of descent was half again as fast as the rest , taking him past the others , and plummeting him down in a whirling corkscrew . |
| 11 | The Socialist Minister has not missed an opportunity to remind those who regard him only as a tireless champion of culture that he is a qualified professor of international law . |
| 12 | Those who knew him only as a fellow undergraduate would have been still more surprised by his degree result had they known the extent of his other activities . |
| 13 | He was a hero to the people who saw him only as a little waif , when actually he was a pudding of hatred . ’ |
| 14 | I was with him constantly for a whole year and in that time I never saw him with anyone , man or woman . |
| 15 | I 'd take him along for a veterinary verdict on these possibilities and take it from there . |
| 16 | For , after switching on power , it carries him along at a leisurely 10mph . |
| 17 | There had been a period when he allowed Barbara Castle , Dick Crossman and George Wigg , all of whom suffered from the belief that politics was a conspiracy , to influence him too much , but in later years he had broken free from them and I suddenly realised how much I had got used to him being there to shoulder the final responsibility , to feeling able to turn to him naturally for a second opinion and for well-informed advice . |
| 18 | She fixed him suddenly with a beady stare from beneath the crêpy lids . |
| 19 | She had warmed to him not as a spiritual being , but as vigorous young flesh and blood , full of untested potentialities . |
| 20 | But Bill Alexander 's powerful new production of The Duchess of Malfi at The Swan treats him not as a lurid Jacobean sensationalist but as a sombre , death-haunted melancholic . |
| 21 | The subtler of the recent readings of the Shipman 's Tale keeps the merchant in the position of target figure by treating him not as a realistic character , but as a functional one : a figure representing the interplay of more abstract themes and factors affecting human life . |
| 22 | He went on like that until the chief officer nodded him through with a glazed look in his eyes . |
| 23 | The nearest guard glanced at it , then ushered him through with a curt nod of his head . |
| 24 | Next day I took him outside for a long walk in the fresh air . |
| 25 | It would take him away to a nice , warm mental hospital , where nice men would inject large quantities of Largactil up his bum . |
| 26 | Then , not even glancing at the room beyond , or at a woman who had come out on to the stairs , she led him away to a small room of perfect luxury at the back of the house , which was clearly her own . |
| 27 | And Coleby was as hampered now as he had been in Emor by his lack of imagination : get him away from a straightforward discussion of bricks , mortar and money , and the man was lost ; give him a load of crap about the artistic temperament , and his sense of smell deserted him . |
| 28 | Now , what Darwin 's reflections on Malthus did was to move him away from a prenatal , maturational sorting of adaptive from maladaptive variation . |
| 29 | Corbett nodded and opened his mouth to speak but Bruce brushed him aside with a peremptory wave of his hand . |
| 30 | Menna was never well in his head or heart — Tawaret did not smile on his birth , and the torture he experienced at his brother 's hands pushed him forever into a lonely land inside himself … ’ |