Example sentences of "he [vb infin] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oddly enough , later on in the Mess I heard him repeat part of the rollicking , but not my reply , to the station commander . |
| 2 | They had had faith , they had seen Jesus perform miracles , they had seen him heal the sick , they had seen him give sight to the blind , they had seen some of the tremendous things that Jesus had done . |
| 3 | Made him see things in the cold light of reality . |
| 4 | He came , he told us , because his understanding of the ideological struggle makes him see Rhodesia as the most sensitive battlefield . |
| 5 | For the last twenty years of his life his bronchitis made him take holidays on the French Riviera ; Frith says of these later years that he ‘ fell back upon books and art , nature , love and poetry ’ . |
| 6 | She was willing to give evidence about his Mob links in 1970 ; today , she says he was an enthusiastic bisexual who involved J Edgar Hoover in sexual orgies just as the Kennedys were trying to make him take action against the Mob . |
| 7 | He killed the most famous , Kok Fitzabraham , with his own hands and was less than pleased when Montfort made him share part of the spoils . |
| 8 | Stephen felt embarrassed that this women , a Three Towns Echo reporter presumably , should have heard him call Dadda by the shameful name . |
| 9 | She heard the sound of him dressing , but waited until she heard him add wood to the fire before sitting up . |
| 10 | With Virginia Dysart as either his ally or his dupe , only sheer desperation could have made him offer bribes to the likes of Nadine Cunningham . |
| 11 | It was knowing that surgery could work miracles that helped him overcome fears about the daunting operation . |
| 12 | He stated that he would not stand for re-election as majority whip in the Senate , nor would he seek re-election to the Senate when his current term expired in 1992 . |
| 13 | Why does not he give freedom to the people of Scotland to move about without dipping into their pockets ? |
| 14 | The examiner is not interested in all that the candidate knows , nor can he give marks for the evidence of this knowledge unless it is directed exactly and specifically to the narrow topic of the question . |
| 15 | If proof was lacking , the trust beneficiary could turn only to his rights in personam against the trustee ; nor , since there was no doctrine of tracing , could he lay claim to the property received by the trustee in place of the original trust property . |
| 16 | Will he exercise influence on the Soviet Union to accept its moral responsibility ? |
| 17 | Will he draw attention to the National Coal Board 's policy of closing pits , because when a pit is closed not only is low-sulphur coal lost in many cases , but the methane is then allowed to find its way to the surface ? |
| 18 | The satyāgrahi does not violate moral duty , nor does he take advantage of the weakness or vulnerability of his opponent who is the recipient of his actions . |
| 19 | ‘ Did he — well , did he take advantage of the situation ? ’ |
| 20 | Shabba Shabba hey : too big for the reggae market , but can he take ragga to the masses ? |
| 21 | Will he take note of the number of Arab countries that have been strongly opposed to many Libyan terrorist activities over the years ? |
| 22 | Will he take note of the campaign to sink the link , as the channel tunnel rail link passes Gravesend and Northfleet ? |
| 23 | Indeed , the casual indifference of this earlier document makes it quite clear what the English were after ; France , as the later memorandum said , must not make Scotland a ‘ footstool ’ to look over England , and whether that be resolved , as the memorial of the 8th put it , by Mary 's heir Châtelherault or by her bastard half-brother lord James , should he have designs on the crown , really did not matter . |
| 24 | Could he hear laughter from the auditorium ? |
| 25 | Will he encourage members of the Church of England to show the same fervour in their own churches and to keep them open by watching them and looking after them ? |
| 26 | And how can he commit treason against the King of England in a foreign country , if he is not English ? |
| 27 | No longer did he lecture people on the splendours of the Exhibition or on the advance of civilization . |
| 28 | The collector is at once confronted with a choice : shall he assemble his collection with only the binding in mind , or shall he pay regard to the contents of the book as well ? |
| 29 | Only with the retirement of Roberts did he get promotion to the new ball , whereupon he stepped up his speed and took 31 wickets against Australia in 1983–4 , although he then reduced it again . |
| 30 | Would he kiss Doreen beneath the shelter of the tall trees ? |