Example sentences of "he [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 108 ) , and Pleistoanax 's supporters waited twenty-six years to get him recalled in 420 , which they did by bribing the oracle in the best archaic tradition . |
| 2 | There 's no way you could have kept him hidden for this long , and Moshe-Rabaan would have noticed any excess oxygen usage , so he 's a simularity , right ? ’ |
| 3 | It turned out there was a military call-up in New Zealand , which he avoided by feigning epileptic fits ( a device he subsequently found described in The Confessions of Felix Krull , by Thomas Mann ) , but which had the beneficial effect in his case of getting him placed on national assistance , an invaluable windfall for a poet . |
| 4 | His first student essays in photography show him fascinated by natural order and symmetry , the geometry of nature , the abstract face of concrete things . |
| 5 | Léonie , used to him clad in blue jacket and brown corduroy trousers , did n't feel able to kiss him good morning . |
| 6 | After favourable opinion poll ratings during the Gulf crisis , Mitterrand 's personal popularity was also in decline : 48 per cent of respondents ( 57 per cent previously ) had a " good opinion " of the President while " confidence " in him dropped from 55 to 43 per cent . |
| 7 | Here Yakovlev met him surrounded by packed shelves and metals acquired with two months ' credit from the Tartar Republic . |
| 8 | It had been a blow to learn that he had gone away to spend Christmas with ‘ friends in the country ’ , and she imagined him surrounded by fascinating girls all more attractive than herself . |
| 9 | He was requested by Prime Minister James Callaghan to head a commission that looked into the future of the engineering profession in Britain , which kept him occupied for two and a half years . |
| 10 | At an identification parade one of the police officers at the scene identified TJ , although his description of him differed in several ways from TJ 's true description . |
| 11 | He left Fontanellato early the following January , and I received two cards from him written in excellent Italian . |
| 12 | A description of him written in 1806 states : |
| 13 | The injury is likely to keep him sidelined for two months . |
| 14 | Lord Denning and the few colleagues agreeing with him met with little success in either case . |
| 15 | To prevent him from making a comeback after his deposition , his successor , Mustapha IV , had him strangled in 1808 . |
| 16 | Your solicitor will be your best friend during the claim process , so make sure you keep him supplied with all the information required and see that it is being filed promptly with the agency . |
| 17 | Stuttgart , beaten by Leeds in the European Cup earlier this season , have closely monitored his progress at Carrow Road and have had him watched on several occasions . |
| 18 | So this is what has kept him employed through these ‘ misspent ’ years : he has been learning to see , and to live . |
| 19 | This left him tied on 205 for the three rounds with Baker-Finch , who shot 72 on the third day . |
| 20 | There had been unsuccessful attempts even further south ; the unfortunate Raleigh got himself out of the Tower by promising to find James 1 a supply of gold in Guiana , but he found no gold and he irritated the Spanish so much that they pushed James into having him executed in 1618 on the 1604 charge of treason . |
| 21 | Nevertheless he managed to establish his authority over Gaul and its barbarian settlers , until he fell foul of Ricimer , who had him executed in 461 . |
| 22 | The Long Parliament tried to have him restored in 1641–2 , but without effect , and from 1644 onwards Sir Edmond Prideaux [ q.v. ] , later attorney-general under the Commonwealth , was somewhat precariously ensconced as postmaster-general . |
| 23 | It was the Metropolitan Makarii who nurtured Ivan the Terrible 's hugely inflated notion of his office , and who prepared the dramatic ceremony which saw him crowned in 1547 not as mere Grand Prince but as unfettered ‘ Tsar ’ ( derived from ‘ Caesar ’ ) . |
| 24 | When he asked if he could see her again the next day , she would not have dreamed of declining ; they saw each other for about a fortnight , and her enthusiasm for him increased with each meeting , though he said not a word of any interest in the whole two weeks . |
| 25 | The whisky in him fought with any consideration he might have had for her ; all he wanted was to get her into bed . |
| 26 | As a young socialist in Weimar Germany she shared her life and ideals first with Rafael Buber , son of the Jewish theologian and philosopher Martin Buber , then with Heinz Neumann , who was to become leader of the German Communist party until Stalin had him removed in 1932 . |
| 27 | He did not feel that he would want to return to university , so he decided to apply for an unclassed ‘ War Honours ’ degree — ‘ probably not worth the paper it 's written on ’ , but perhaps enough to get him started in some profession , such as colonial service or , possibly , journalism ; he rather liked the idea of becoming a parliamentary correspondent for a newspaper . |
| 28 | A period in the engineering department saw him promoted from senior mechanical engineer to head of mechanical engineering before he was appointed head of facilities for BP 's northern district which included the Buchan , Beatrice , SWOPS , Clyde , Thistle and Magnus upstream activities . |
| 29 | Rebecca West refers to a photograph of him taken at this time in army uniform as a private of the Worcestershire Regiment . |
| 30 | A photograph of him as the Devil ( not in female disguise ) shows him poised on one foot , the other leg bent so that his whole body is tilted eccentrically . |