Example sentences of "he [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew he was so incensed he could n't control himself ; I could n't blame him for the fury which inhabited him . |
| 2 | ‘ Scotland Yard , ’ he informed Mr Multhrop severely , taking him for the doorman as he marched through the doors of the Imperial Hotel . |
| 3 | Even Dole , who once challenged him for the Presidency , was on verge of tears . |
| 4 | If I enter him for the race will you wager ten pounds for me ? ’ |
| 5 | Peter Nieswand used to go and interview him for the BBC , sitting as I did beside his swimming pool , looking across the lawn on to six miles of fine farm-land . |
| 6 | Thus the education of a king 's son was supposed to include learning to sleep in a hard or badly made bed to prepare him for the rigours of a life of non-stop , and sometimes unexpected , movement . |
| 7 | I 've tried without success to recruit him for the CPRE and the Friends of Spaxton Theatre . |
| 8 | He would probably do the latter , and hurry through the change of clothes which would prepare him for the half-hour 's weight-training which he did between ten forty-five and eleven fifteen every Tuesday and Friday . |
| 9 | On the other hand , if you feel your debtor is making a reasonable effort to reduce his debt , then enter into an agreement with him for the payment of the remaining balance . |
| 10 | The postman thanked him for the warning and drove back to Mount Carmel . |
| 11 | But it is too soon for him to face the likes of Devon Malcolm , and Fletcher said the tour selectors would not consider him for the pipe opener in Faridabad . |
| 12 | ‘ Alex felt that if I selected him for the Poland game , he should play and try to help us get the result before announcing his retirement , and that was Bryan 's intention . ’ |
| 13 | Her mission was to request some drawings from him for the opening show of her London gallery , Guggenheim Jeune . |
| 14 | Perhaps if I 'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle , he might have sold . |
| 15 | The theory is that such sub-contracting should not concern the buyer , because the seller still remains liable to him for the discharge of the main contract in accordance with its terms . |
| 16 | Strong , colourful midfield player or striker , Andy Gray had been with the Palace as a schoolboy during the Terry Venables era at Selhurst Park , but disappeared into non-league soccer so that it was actually from Dulwich Hamlet that Manager Steve Coppell initially signed him for The Eagles in November 1984 . |
| 17 | Palottino had no answer to that , any more than Zen himself , though the question had tormented him for the whole drive back to Perugia . |
| 18 | One of the Tory MPs who supported him for the leadership of the party in 1990 told me that Michael Heseltine no longer had a political future . |
| 19 | Khrushchev could never forgive him for the cruelties and stupidities that brought Russia so close to defeat by Hitler . |
| 20 | Also ask him for the telephone number of the Home Service Adviser for your area , in case you need further advice . |
| 21 | ‘ I was asked to do a promotional picture with him for the video launch , but I refused . |
| 22 | Stoughton was even a friend of Matthew Arnold , who proposed him for the Athenaeum . |
| 23 | If he himself has not paid for them then the person who sold him the goods will be able to sue him for the price but will have lost any chance of recovering the goods . |
| 24 | She remembers the time he was coming out of his flat in the midst of a rainstorm and was approached by a young man who asked him for the price of a meal . |
| 25 | They met at Cambridge when she — ‘ a lovely young woman with dark brown hair and blue eyes ’ — went to interview him for the university newspaper . |
| 26 | He filled the kettle and set it on the hob , then went through to the front room , closed the shutters , and tried radioing on the frequency Caspar had given him for the US Embassy in Belpan City . |
| 27 | As we draw near to him in our distress , we learn to ask him for the things we need . |
| 28 | It er we are expecting him for the course on that date . |
| 29 | For him it held a special appeal ; the one day of the week he could break bread with his family and not have to feel that they were only loaned to him for the while — his son Joshua had no business to go to , his grandson Jacob no college lectures . |
| 30 | Short had been saving him for the Ascot race . |