Example sentences of "he [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do n't know what he 's like yet — would n't it be better to ask him for an odd Sunday first before we let ourselves in for a course of sermons ? ’ |
| 2 | In 1973 a Mossad hit squad went to Norway and murdered an innocent Moroccan mistaking him for an alleged Arab terrorist . |
| 3 | Instead Barclays asked him for an extra £15 commission on his traveller 's cheques . |
| 4 | Frau Nordern gazed at him for an icy moment then stalked into the bedroom . |
| 5 | His guardian uncles intended him for an academic career , and his brother Christopher , presumably of similar intelligence and attainment , later became Master of Trinity . |
| 6 | Until Vic and Robyn 's lives coincide , when she goes to ‘ shadow ’ him for an improbable Industry Year project , the viewer needs as much information as possible . |
| 7 | He was asking me to respect him for an astute and informed observer , an impartial and honest man . |
| 8 | but then you left him for an American carpenter . |
| 9 | And after last night 's performance of Hamlet , some of his friends from the theatre had come back with him for an informal reading of their next play . |
| 10 | Lowe put him through an intensive course of twice-a-week sprint training and night hill-running . |
| 11 | Under the old system , the Leader of the PLP would be seen to enjoy the confidence of that body because it had elected him through an exhaustive ballot . |
| 12 | He was very generous and his friendship was abused by many who saw him as an easy touch financially . |
| 13 | ‘ Criminals far more vicious than Nicholas Dodman looked upon him as an easy target to provide an outlet for their criminal activities , ’ he said . |
| 14 | ‘ Criminals far more vicious than Nicholas Dodman looked upon him as an easy target to provide an outlet for their criminal activities , ’ he said . |
| 15 | And was it defensible to live with a man because I was physically in love with him and also interested in him as an individual , if I was so suspicious of him ? |
| 16 | The anger and resentment expressed at every level , from street vendor to middle-class intellectual , was almost entirely directed at Washington , not at him as an individual American . |
| 17 | Lloyd had persuaded Coleridge to take him as a pupil at £80 a year ; but when his wealthy father , a member of the banking family , insisted that the arrangement could last only for a year , Coleridge 's expectation of a regular income suddenly vanished , and Lloyd eventually settled with him as an occasional lodger , not a pupil . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , people can identify with him as an ordinary , decent bloke . ’ |
| 19 | Deism frees this bound-in monadic god by releasing him as an immanent but impersonal spirit . |
| 20 | They agreed to release him as an uncontested registration to enable him to find a county where he could hope for greater opportunities , and although we ca n't guarantee a first-team place , he 'll get plenty of chances if he does the business . |
| 21 | Since the war both groups have come to see him as an unnecessary evil . |
| 22 | On being asked by someone else whether she saw God as male or female , she replied ‘ Neither : I see him as an absolute supreme Being ! ’ . |
| 23 | These need to be grasped if we are to understand him — and so to make use of him , rather than simply dismissing him as an embittered elitist pessimist . |
| 24 | For one way of denying someone the respect to which he is entitled is by failing to treat him as an autonomous agent , for example , by unreasonably restricting the range of alternative courses of action from which he can choose . |
| 25 | She thought of him as an aging hippy . |
| 26 | His dedication brought him swift advancement at the cost of alienating his contemporaries , who regarded him as an arrogant , stand-offish prig . |
| 27 | Pears prefers to play fly-half but both England and Harlequins see him as an attacking full-back . |
| 28 | All that has survived of him is his moment of final carelessness ; death froze him as an instructive cameo about the nature of progress . |
| 29 | Despite her antagonism , she recognised him as an awesome adversary . |
| 30 | But the major struck him as an odd fish , rather . |