Example sentences of "he [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I concluded from what Heather told me that Alan had taken him on for old time 's sake . ’ |
| 2 | Today we meet young comedienne Lois Waters and her dad Denny , and tomorrow Chris Boardman talks about the man who spurred him on to Olympic fame . |
| 3 | She would not explain herself to Luke Scott , because to do so would mean he mattered to her , and to let him matter in even the smallest way was to make herself vulnerable — to let him in at some level , and she had an intuitive sense of the havoc he could wreak once admitted to the number of those people who mattered in her life in their various ways . |
| 4 | I talked him down at one point |
| 5 | Then he hosed him down with warm water until all traces of the beck had been removed . |
| 6 | His mother wus allus sendun him down to tha willage shop . |
| 7 | In a wedding photograph , the interesting faces are not those of the bride and groom , but of the encircling guests : the bride 's younger sister ( will it happen to me , the tremendous thing ? ) , the groom 's elder brother ( will she let him down like that bitch did me ? ) , the bride 's mother ( how it takes me back ) , the groom 's father ( if the lad knew what I know now if only I 'd known what I know now ) , the priest ( strange how even the tongue-tied are moved to eloquence by these ancient vows ) , the scowling adolescent ( what do they want to get married for ? ) , and so on . |
| 8 | She hoped she had n't let him down in any way . |
| 9 | He seemed surprised as if it had not occurred to him that literature might let him down in this way . |
| 10 | I understand that Border , 37 , was within one phone call of losing his job when umpire Steve Randell reported him along with fast bowler Merv Hughes for dissent in the first Test at Brisbane earlier this month . |
| 11 | This at least got him through to another summer holiday , but while he was away there was a further worsening . |
| 12 | Just on half-time , a long ball from Milne put him through within excellent shooting distance of Thomson , but McCart 's late intervention robbed him of the golden chance to break the deadlock . |
| 13 | Dozens of journalists blocked his path , almost knocking him over at one stage , and firing non-stop questions at him . |
| 14 | Some correspondent will probably now write to tell me that Brunson is bravely suffering from some life-threatening condition , but he delivered his questions between swallows with the aplomb of Peter Lorre squealing to Humphrey Bogart as the police drag him off to certain death in Casablanca . |
| 15 | Presently a remark of Elizabeth 's started him off on capital punishment , because it emerged that Ivy was rather a friend to hanging . |
| 16 | My lesson lasted about half the time of Tony 's , terminating as he was explaining the purpose of the deadman 's handle to me when a gust filled his chute and hauled him off in fine style . |
| 17 | If we were in bed together , how could we go down , seize Brampton , take him up to that garret and hang him ? |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm taking him up to that wood . ’ |
| 19 | We carried him up to that hollow . ’ |
| 20 | His employer paid him up to that point . |
| 21 | I think I must have expressed dissatisfaction with the ‘ Poetry and Propaganda ’ article , because , like others that I had submitted to him up to that point , it was never to appear . |
| 22 | And he had to do that every year in order to satisfy his stance his hat that he was wearing , that he was actually being the boss , and knocking the workers down , look I 'm holding down , what twenty-two point on six , er and he believed that my need was that I could go back to my manager , and say , look I got him up to two point one , . |
| 23 | It had taken so long … it had taken two young ensigns , a native pensioner and a Eurasian clerk to lift him up to this platform , and now he would have to get himself down again ! |
| 24 | ‘ the lads ’ put him up to Blind Date |
| 25 | While I would insist on the centrality of Noel Coward 's sexuality to the patterns of meanings that I see in Brief Encounter , I would not wish for one second to hold him up as any kind of gay martyr . |
| 26 | I 'll write him up for that medication now . ’ |
| 27 | It set him up for next year , I 'm sure . |
| 28 | The 24-year-old Luton striker was sent off at Chester after scoring his first goal of the season , but Billy Bingham has called him up for next week 's Group Six qualifier against the Republic of Ireland in Dublin . |
| 29 | He was beginning to wonder if they were n't already softening him up for some kind of a change . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've written him up for some medication to ease the headache . ’ |