Example sentences of "he [prep] a [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Housman might not readily recognise him as a Shropshire Lad . |
| 2 | More than just buying an operating system and securing a future for Novell , Noorda — a man held in high regard by a wide cross section of industry executives — takes on the expectations of all those seeing him as a Moses figure capable of stitching up the highly personalised wounds inflicted during the Unix wars and the aborted peace attempts . |
| 3 | Lorne Michael , producer of Saturday Night Live and Wayne 's World , sees him as a Tony Curtis — ‘ like Curtis in Some Like it Hot . ’ |
| 4 | It 's difficult to imagine him as a Plantagenet — rather like Edward the Second . |
| 5 | Historians usually refer to him as a Monmouthshire man ; his family connections and his early employment as a schoolteacher at Talgarth suggest that he could have been brought up in Breconshire , where , in 1737 , he was converted by Howel Harris [ q.v . ] . |
| 6 | In J.F. Campbell 's Popular Tales of the West Highlands ( XXVIII ) there is the story of The Smith and The Fairies which the Rev. Thomas Pattieson told him about a MacEachern at Crosbrig . |
| 7 | Then she added : ‘ He definitely shapes up better looking at him like a Bill Clinton character . |
| 8 | Charles Winter presented him with a Gleneagles crystal decanter and 12 glasses . |
| 9 | ( 2 ) … in relation to an institution in respect of which a payment falls to be made under section 58(2) above any reference in this Act to a depositor 's protected deposit is a reference to the liability of the institution to him in respect of — ( a ) the principal amount of each sterling deposit which was made by him with a United Kingdom office of the institution before the making of the administration order and which under the terms on which it was made is or becomes due or payable while the order is in force ; and ( b ) accrued interest on any such deposit up to the time when it is or becomes due and payable as aforesaid ; but so that the total liability of the institution to him in respect of such deposits does not exceed £20,000 . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , it is decided not to reveal the fact that Johnson is not dead in this video , as this would affect sales of the ten-album box set of his old songs , so Richards thumps him with a Gibson L5 and Johnson finally dies , leaving behind one last blues classic : ‘ Devil Dog On My Trail ’ . |
| 11 | If he tries to change him into a Lillie or Hadlee , the boy might lose his greatest asset — to bowl successfully at pace . |
| 12 | Trent had no doubt that Miguelito would kill him and enjoy doing so — revenge for whatever had happened to him in a US jail and for the gringo widow-woman having put him there . |
| 13 | She could more easily picture him in a Maserati . |
| 14 | Freelance cameraman Andy Styczynski , 32 , spotted the elusive bachelor at the wheel of a white Rover Montego — and chased after him in a VW Golf GTi . |
| 15 | The Minister of Labour , Ernest Bevin , received a message which he had decoded for him in a Leeds hotel by Albert Heal , a trade union leader who had run a pre-war escape route for German socialists that still had watertight communications . |
| 16 | ‘ Just imagine him standing by the side of you , with his hands crossed before him in a Miss Mollyish style , his intended bow half a courtsey , his fat arms and legs assisting , as in duty bound ; his side glances at you every ten seconds , while he softly , sweetly and insinuatingly informs you — that he has made the arts his peculiar study for the last eight years , and that he flatters himself , by his unremitting study he has greatly contributed to their improvement ; that he came to Ambleside for that purpose ( 't is a great big lie — he came solely to get a living for himself and family , but he is too proud to acknowledge this ) and hopes that the time has been employed with equal advantage to the arts and to himself . ’ |
| 17 | In late February his arrest was ordered as charges of rebellion with murder were filed against him in a Manila court . |
| 18 | Today 's run in a handicap is a step up in class , but David Chapman , who trains at Stillington , North Yorkshire , has clearly brought about a change in the colt 's attitude since acquiring him from a Lambourn yard just two months ago . |
| 19 | Police team manager David Rees said : ‘ We should have switched him to a Saturday afternoon shift . |
| 20 | I decided to give him the name of ‘ Man Friday ’ , because I first saw him on a Friday . |
| 21 | Were n't five days a week enough without having to cope with him on a Saturday , too ? |
| 22 | He gave them his card , hoping they 'd contact him at a London mailing address , for modelling assignments . |
| 23 | Glasses , a beard and lots of grey hairs — 47-year-old Rod Stewart 's new look seems to have stunned his model wife Rachel Hunter who joined him at a Los Angeles club . |
| 24 | When one of his own officials insulted him at a Leeds meeting Mosley knocked him unconscious . |
| 25 | Written in careful English , it had told her little except that her name had been suggested to him by a Kevin Roberts , who had tutored briefly at her old art school , and knew their London gallery . |
| 26 | ‘ Solid , thorough , plodding , even , ’ ( that had been said of him by a Bromberg once to Frau Nordern — — but once only ) ‘ but kind in his shy way and decent to the very core . ’ |
| 27 | " Between two beings , he and I , he like a Vulcan and I boiling too , a kind of struggle was preparing itself … |