Example sentences of "he [verb] he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hates him for being the initial cause of his mother 's addiction and also the receiver of most of her attention . |
| 2 | He plays him like a harp . |
| 3 | Did he want him to be more like McEllhoney ? |
| 4 | Angry Brian Reatus , 44 , allegedly foamed at the mouth as he pinned him to the wall . |
| 5 | Mr Woodcock , 47 , of Holgate , York , grabbed the weapon with one hand and it went off , blasting a wall with pellets , but he hung on , dragging the raider into the car park outside the restaurant , where he pinned him to the ground until armed police arrived . |
| 6 | Brahe ‘ shows ’ Epstein his work — that is , he flies him around the 30-kilometer circumference of the accelerator which is buried deep underground , pinpointing the surface features and describing their relation to the features concealed below the surface . |
| 7 | When he sold him to Villa for £450,000 in 1988 , Ferguson made no secret of the fact that he was delighted to see him go . |
| 8 | When he met him in the office , or on the stairs , his habitually offensive glance seemed to have a new dimension of thoughtfulness . |
| 9 | Pulling Mickey away gently , he led him through the front of the shop and out into the street . |
| 10 | He got him to hospital and the doctors said that he lived for 70 minutes , but he was dead by the time we got there . |
| 11 | After several attempts he got him at last on a bad telephone line . |
| 12 | He got him from Warnford-the-mad who , I imagine , was delighted to get rid . ’ |
| 13 | Because Nick is ju erm is young and because he associates him with all these dangerous ideas , in genetic engineering and so on , he feels threatened by him . |
| 14 | When one player meets another he challenges him by saying , ‘ Smee ’ . |
| 15 | Unfortunately he phoned him in the middle of the night . |
| 16 | He found him in a comer of the hall , already half-drunk . |
| 17 | He found him in the station buffet slouched against the counter eating toasted tea-cakes . |
| 18 | The scene of crime officer kept looking at him , as if he found him in the way but did not know how to say so . |
| 19 | In fact , he found him in a state of positive animation , in conversation with Chatterton about the dangers of travelling by public transport . |
| 20 | He found him in a couple of minutes , before he had properly left the house . |
| 21 | In the second play , Audience , Ferdinand is called in by the head maltster , played by Freddie Jones , who insists that he joins him for a drink and a chat . |
| 22 | The man was toying with him and treating him with contempt , by showing just how little he rated him as an opponent . |
| 23 | He jerked him to his feet , and separating the thin wrists he held , twisted them together again behind the boy 's back , and so thrust him painfully before him along the passageway to the staircase . |
| 24 | A week later , of his own volition , he provided him with proof that Albrecht Haushofer had written to Douglas , Duke of Hamilton , before the war — and that Hamilton had shown the letter to Winston Churchill at his Morpeth Mansions flat . |
| 25 | He caught him by the shirt . |
| 26 | ‘ He created him as the person who could do all the things that grown ups are not allowed to do . |
| 27 | He described him as ‘ a retired civil servant who has made Shakespeare his hobby ’ . |
| 28 | Hudson , who had played the most fluently for his 30 from 54 balls , was caught behind trying to cut Harper , who was also rewarded with the wicket of Rushmere when he beat him in the flight . |
| 29 | Out to provoke Theo into a declaration of loyalty , and at the same time sting him for continuing to belong to a hated class , he charged him with hypocrisy and self-righteousness in refusing to belong to either side . |
| 30 | I think you 'll find he wants him to be the best player in Scotland and NOT England |