Example sentences of "he [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had left him asleep in the cottage , an act of merry . |
| 2 | The plaintiff must agree , expressly or impliedly , to waive any claim for any injury that may befall him due to the lack of reasonable care by the defendant . " |
| 3 | The plaintiff must agree , expressly or impliedly , to waive any claim for any injury that may befall him due to the lack of reasonable care by the defendant . " |
| 4 | The journey from Philadelphia was a fraught one , Boyd says , principally because Johnson — an uncompromisingly direct ladies ' man whose prolonged career as a plongeur had left him unused to the excitements of the open road — offered robust salutations to every woman pedestrian they passed en route . |
| 5 | Her 16-year-old brother was arrested and tortured ( they removed the skin from his face and the soles of his feet ) ; then they burnt him alive in the village square . |
| 6 | In Reg. v. Walhein ( 1952 ) 36 Cr.App.R. 167 , before the days of majority verdicts , after the jury had returned to court and one juror had said : ‘ I can not in my own mind find him guilty of the charge which prosecuting counsel have not proved , ’ the commissioner at the Central Criminal Court then said : |
| 7 | Kenneth Andrew Sanderson , of Wallace Avenue , Huyton , was sentenced in January 1991 after a Southampton Crown Court jury found him guilty of the two robberies for each of which he received seven years , concurrent ; he got six months concurrent for an admitted burglary . |
| 8 | He had had the playwright in his power , and been tempted to astonish the court and the television audiences by sucking him dry on the stand . |
| 9 | It was easy for him ; the cloak of arrogance he habitually wore probably made him oblivious to the speculation of people like the receptionist . |
| 10 | The tide had risen a foot above the usual high water mark , and when they came to cut him free in the morning , they found him hanging on the outer wall — drowned . |
| 11 | Rescuers took 19 minutes to cut him free from the mangled wreckage . |
| 12 | Firemen cut him free from the vehicle in a lay-by on the eastbound carriageway of the A45 at Risby , near Bury St Edmunds . |
| 13 | It will leave him heir-apparent to the Lonrho empire . |
| 14 | Pitman yanked him back on to a true line and managed to steer him clear of the rails , but the two hundred yards he had left to run seemed like two hundred miles , and Red Rum was now only five lengths back . |
| 15 | A little later we find him interested in the creation story and reading the now more or less unread epic on the divine week of creation by the French poet Du Bartas . |
| 16 | When patients who did not contact their general practitioners before their attempts were questioned about why they had not gone to their doctor , it was found that many were reluctant to trouble him , some had found him unhelpful in the fist , and others thought he was unlikely to be helpful or might even be unsympathetic ( Hawton and Blackstock 1976 ) . |
| 17 | The residential workers found him evasive in the account he gave of his actions and feelings . |
| 18 | Mr Crumwallis gazed at him in amazement , as if the worm had turned , and left him flabbergasted at the depths of human ingratitude suddenly exposed . |
| 19 | In the intertestamental days we read of the Messiah , ‘ God will make him mighty in the Holy Spirit ’ ( Psalms of Solomon 17:37 ) , and in the Targum or Commentary on Isaiah 42 : 1 , the Servant is seen as the Messiah , and God says of him ‘ I will cause my Holy Spirit to rest on him . ’ |
| 20 | Essential to Trent 's possibilities of survival was that Louis should believe him ignorant of the death sentence already passed . |
| 21 | His East European Jewish background — he was born Schmuel Gelbfisz , in Warsaw — and the instinct that first led him into pictures , make him typical of the men who created Hollywood : Louis B Mayer , Adolph Zukor , Carl Laemmle , William Fox and the Warners . |
| 22 | Fleischmann said that one of the referees had said that it was nonsense and that the reaction of this referee had made him nervous about the validity of their experiment . |
| 23 | There was a boat at the mill , and the current would help him down-river in the crossing and bring him quickly to the water-meadows by the abbey . |
| 24 | His insistence as a public examiner that men who aspired to become Bachelors or Doctors of Divinity should show knowledge of the Scriptures rather than of the commentators made him unpopular with the Friars . |
| 25 | The troubles of the spirit are not always translated into the grosser medium of the flesh , but if I could not make this transfer with Miller then there would be no point in making him ill in the first place . |
| 26 | For a while he was in financial difficulties , but by 1801 , after Paul 's assassination , he was working again at Tsarskoe Selo for the dowager empress and in 1802 Alexander I , the new emperor , appointed him architect-in-chief to the Admiralty , where he carried out minor works . |
| 27 | In fact , his phenomenal memory for facts and figures ( he has been known to correct Scottish former international rugby players on the score at half time of matches they had played in ) , combined with a genuine interest in people , made him ideal for the part and , from the day he joined TMcL a year before qualifying , his career took off . |
| 28 | The young Greindl 's few phrases as Daland show him devoid of the unsteadiness that would later mar his singing . |
| 29 | The Commander 's gay as a grasshopper , old Dass 's son walks in and tells them they make him sick to the teeth . |
| 30 | Each riding forester had under him two or three walking foresters , who made annual payments to him equal to the amount of the farm which he paid to the warden . |