Example sentences of "he [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently this did not produce the desired reaction from Stanley , so Wyatt went on 17th December to see Scott who , with a disarming naïveté , immediately agreed to a proposal from Wyatt that he should take him on as an equal partner and relinquish half the work to him . |
| 2 | He refused to talk about his businesswoman wife who often followed his rounds wearing bright , tight dresses and cheering him on at every green . |
| 3 | The Campbells steamer his mother had once taken him on for a day trip to Ilfracombe . |
| 4 | He found another vessel whose captain ( a Scot ) was prepared to sign him on for the voyage to New York . |
| 5 | As they lifted him on to a stretcher and then on to the jeep the blanket slipped away from his shoulders revealing his red hair and a very white arm covered in freckles . |
| 6 | If he had hoped that a row might spur him on to a direct , hands on approach to murdering Elinor , Henry was disappointed . |
| 7 | He was approached by the Huddersfield directors early in 1921 and the offer spurred him on to a determined effort to prove his innocence in the Leeds City affair . |
| 8 | The dream-man called Duvall seized Jimmy around the neck in a way which was surely too painful to be a dream and yanked him to his feet , throwing him on to a desk . |
| 9 | At last , with Greg 's help , they managed to get him on to a stretcher to which he was firmly secured with nylon strapping so that it was virtually impossible for him to move , then the stretcher was carefully lifted down from the jig and into the waiting ambulance . |
| 10 | It took four of them to lift him on to a trolley and take him away for observation , with the police riding shotgun at his side , and then things gradually returned to normal — or as normal as they could given the extraordinary circumstances . |
| 11 | Provided that you have reduced the distance between you , your turning hip will jar against the opponent , lifting him on to the ball of his foot . |
| 12 | In this case , you should put him on to the defensive by maintaining a series of very strong attacks delivered from the correct distance . |
| 13 | A Polish farmer fits him out with a complete set of dry clothes and sends him on to the West German embassy in Warsaw . |
| 14 | His whole body felt bruised from the speed at which Doyle had dragged him round and thrown him on to the floor when they heard the shout outside . |
| 15 | I pushed him on to the bed and started to take his shoes off . |
| 16 | An advanced manoeuvre used in stronger winds in which the sailor lets the sail pull him on to the board from a position in the water . |
| 17 | They , no doubt confused beyond belief , gratefully passed him on to the Americans |
| 18 | ‘ Th'best go down first and catch his legs when I 've helped him on to the ladder , ’ Jess told Hawkins . |
| 19 | Jed grabbed Gorelli by the upper arm and spun him on to the balcony . |
| 20 | Then she drew him on to the covers and pushed him gently back . |
| 21 | The fear followed him on to the table at the Rothmans and the man who had pillaged nine titles last season lost to world No 52 Tony Chappel — a player who had managed to take just one frame off him in two previous meetings . |
| 22 | Not our questions about the problem of God , but God 's call and invitation to us determined the direction of his thought and shaped his writing ; and it was this basic orientation that led him on to the restatement of christological and trinitarian dogma as the foundation and horizon of theology itself . |
| 23 | He had then polished off Duncan 's leftovers before driving him on to the hotel . |
| 24 | The president had silenced the vociferous strike-leader by bringing him on to the ruling body . |
| 25 | It had once even gone so far as to empty him on to the floor for voicing an intolerant opinion on the Jesuits . |
| 26 | He did not qualify him for income support , he supported him on to the back of his ass , he took him to the inn . |
| 27 | Kate followed him on to the landing and shouted : ‘ You 're another one . |
| 28 | Ellwood spun him a dozen more times , then released him on to the sofa . |
| 29 | ‘ How did that kind of line get him on to the insulin project ? ’ |
| 30 | With the rough timbers pushed wide I got behind the bullock and sent him on to the opening . |