Example sentences of "he [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He still considered himself something of a failed journalist ( NME amongst others , had turned him down five times in the early years ) and he often expressed a desire to use his new found influence to move into spasmodic fits of journalese . |
| 2 | One morning Jamie conducted him down two flights of stairs and into a long high apartment , like a baronial hall . |
| 3 | The chief of the Near East Division had sat him down one day to try to teach him about Iran , but he doubted it had gone in . |
| 4 | I seemed always to be letting him down one way or another . |
| 5 | ‘ Zak put on the next scene of the mystery and Sheridan shouted him down three times . |
| 6 | thought he was it so we decided to bring him down three pegs or two |
| 7 | It begins to look as if his obsession has led him down evil paths . ’ |
| 8 | This put him off personal involvement in scientific research but probably provided material for his novels The Search and The Affair . |
| 9 | If he has too many bad experiences with other children , it may put him off social interaction . |
| 10 | Do n't you dare I 'm in charge of this interview and erm and erm and erm what 's caused this and why discussion what has caused this change to try and find out and put him off Horrible feeling you see two people shouting at each other two people shouting at each other get the impression that the other party is actually doing an impression of a goldfish and going like that . |
| 11 | No , Im used to defending Fairclough , my girlfriend was slagging him off last season . |
| 12 | Phones him up two minutes past three I 'm gon na try and get the three o'clock train ! |
| 13 | Phil Tufnell 's performances in New Zealand moved him up 13 places to 13th in the latest lists of the Coopers & Lybrand Ratings for Test cricketers . |
| 14 | On one occasion during field-work a father who needed to be present while his young son was being questioned at the station instructed his child to ‘ Tell these f'ing black bastards nothin' ’ , and when told that that was a lovely way to bring up his son replied , ‘ Aye , and I 'll keep bringing him up that way ’ ( FN 11/7/87 , p. 9 ) . |
| 15 | This time his powers of concentration were not helped by the fact that on a hot and humid Sunday afternoon in the Bois de Boulogne he was feeling awful : he had been wasting in order to ride Beaver II at nine stone ten pounds later in the afternoon , and was severely debilitated by a stomach upset which had kept him up all night . |
| 16 | Someone beat him up one night . |
| 17 | But I called him up one day and asked him how he was doing and he said things were pretty good , so I asked if he still wanted to do that album . |
| 18 | half seven bus , and there was me waking at ten past seven picked him up fucking dinner and here 's me I 'm away in here to waken up . |
| 19 | ‘ My Dad locked him up last night . ’ |
| 20 | These batting performances move him up three places , to 41 , on the C&L list . |
| 21 | His dad pleaded with magistrates : ‘ Please lock him up next time he 's caught . |
| 22 | Oh I 'll phone him up this afternoon then |
| 23 | Your Ma went to pick him up this morning . ’ |
| 24 | And when I went and got him up this morning his legs were out the bottom of the cot again ! |
| 25 | I will give half my belongings to the poor , and if I have cheated anyone , I will pay him back four times as much ’ , that Jesus exclaims , ‘ Salvation has come to this house today … ’ |
| 26 | Neither of his old clubs are in action today , but both could want him back next season , although Gosforth 's two student locks , Simon Gibbs and Alistair Meadows , have both said they will be staying with the club . |
| 27 | Well it holding it in pawn , waiting for somebody to ask him to have a drink , and invariably somebody would but if they did ask him they 'd always ask him back next time you know if they could n't do it this time . |
| 28 | His assistant Julian immediately offers me coffee , and explains in apologetic tones that Tony has been called out — ‘ but you 're down for 11.30 ’ — and that he 's expecting him back any moment . |
| 29 | I got him out first ball . |
| 30 | I shall catch him out one day . |