Example sentences of "he [prep] the [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , she was n't going to let him off the hook that easily . |
| 2 | Because erm in her her differences in her erm behaviour towards Hastings towards Tony , like she 's she chases him off the stage one point Tony and then she sort of turn round and be all charming sort of . |
| 3 | He had , he used to have one boy with him during the war Brassy he now lives at Ely . |
| 4 | ‘ My wife does n't want you hanging around her like a pet dog , ’ Nahum said to him after the service one Sunday morning . |
| 5 | If he thinks it advisable that the complainant should ask for an investigation by either of those other Commissioners he may inform him of the steps necessary to do so . |
| 6 | If I were Mrs Douglas and had put up with years of a philandering , self-important husband I think I might consider I was more deserving than him of the luxury away-from-it-all fortnight 's vacation . |
| 7 | ‘ But no one saw him near the flat that afternoon . |
| 8 | The purpose of serving a contemnor with a copy of the committal order is to enable him to have a written record of the findings made by the court and of the sentence and to provide him with the materials necessary to enable him to decide whether or not he wishes to appeal . |
| 9 | He was originally held in Safi Prison , where he developed diabetes in 1988 , but was then transferred to Marrakech where his family lives , and so could visit him regularly and provide him with the food necessary for his diabetic diet . |
| 10 | Then the patient 's arms are placed on a table in front of him with the hands flat and fingers spread open . |
| 11 | He brought with him into the Treasury few old prejudices beyond the self-confidence of his conviction that whatever he believed in at a particular time was right . |
| 12 | She looked beyond him into the darkness afraid that at any moment Craig would return . |
| 13 | She 'd followed him into the Rockingham public house by the Elephant and Castle . |
| 14 | Seconds after she pushed him into the channel any pleasure , or sense of power , had evaporated . |
| 15 | Tom picked up the two whiskeys and manoeuvred Patrick into the corner , pushing him into the seat first so that he was up against the wall . |
| 16 | You see , he knew if they had taken him in and it was proved he had been using her , or , as a little bird told me , he had got her ready for shipment , they would have surely sent him along the line this time , and stripped the house of all his fine pieces . |
| 17 | The equally indomitable Dunwoody had his second fall of the day on Calabrese and completed a painful hat-trick when King of The Lot unseated him in the Tote 7th Handicap Chase , won by Howe Street . |
| 18 | ‘ Randy 's got a slower pony in this chukka , who wo n't like Dopey taking a piece of him in the line-out one bit . ’ |
| 19 | The affirmative he knew would follow would help him in the discussion this evening with the Prince of Wales . |
| 20 | Encouraged by Hamadan , Younis made much of the minor role Nabi Berri had assigned to him in the Air Jordanian incident and admitted he had helped guard the hostages after the TWA 747 hijack . |
| 21 | And when he saw producer Joe Pasternak , the renowned MGM star-maker , approaching him in the corridor one day , Nicholson spoke up : ‘ Hiya , Joe . |
| 22 | I had n't wanted him before he was born , and , though I had never neglected him physically , I had n't loved him in the way most mothers love their children . |
| 23 | He did not fit the description of Jim Lancaster that Blanche had given him in the car that morning . |
| 24 | She could n't look him in the face any more . |
| 25 | In the last year of his life Carleton 's connections with the tightly knit Puritan gentry of the midlands involved him in the Puritan literary conspiracy of the Marprelate tracts . |
| 26 | Waiting for him in the studio seven people are busy setting up the camera and lights and unwrapping white plaster pillars and an assortment of very beautiful chairs and tables . |
| 27 | However , if Europeans were exasperated with Carter , many had little liking either for the man who beat him in the November presidential elections . |
| 28 | I saw him in the staffroom this afternoon but he hardly spoke to me . ’ |
| 29 | Andrew Wadling was forced to pull out , and Terry Dowsett and Steve Kerns replaced him in the number three seed position , but neither survived the first round . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , the Australian is still likely to preside over the punishment of the opponent who beat him in the World Open final . |