Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] he [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the event , Tyndale 's unorthodox beliefs and his lack of support for the annulment prevented him from having any direct impact on royal policy . |
| 2 | She had not the heart to embarrass him by refusing a request so diffidently expressed . |
| 3 | ‘ He said that every time he returned to the kidnappers to present an offer worked out after lengthy discussions with the family , claiming that this was the absolute maximum the Milettis could afford to pay , the gang accused him of lying . |
| 4 | After preaching on two or three occasions to the people of Kidderminster , the Vicar banned him from preaching any more . |
| 5 | According to him Beatrice was so jealous that she locked Modi up in the cottage to keep him from going off with other women . |
| 6 | He never charged for the rooms and the journalists repaid him by keeping their custom at the bar . |
| 7 | The owner of a firearm is none the less owner because the law prohibits him from discharging it in a public highway ; the owner of a field does not cease to be owner because the public or a neighbour has the right to use a footpath across it . |
| 8 | But the bruiser was after her , and the click-clack of her heels over the pavement kept him from losing her . |
| 9 | As a result , Mr Vafa , who was living in France at the time , says that allegations of violence made against him by his former wife and her family went unchallenged and resulted in the interdict preventing him from molesting and attacking his wife or members of her family . |
| 10 | At first it had not mattered that the rain prevented him from going outdoors ; there was so much to talk about between himself and Uncle Walter ; they had not seen each other for twelve years . |
| 11 | But , if the refusal or the conditions prevent him from obtaining ‘ reasonably beneficial use ’ of the land , he can serve a purchase notice . |
| 12 | One deaf electrician from Gillingham , Kent , a Thomas Pearce , was shot dead by a sentry in Southport , Lancashire , to which place he had been sent to do a job : he had failed to see the sentry in the dark and the sentry shot him after challenging him three times . |
| 13 | The court backed him in pursuing payment of redundancy and legal costs by the Scottish Office and in taking the campaign to the public , which has benefited from the dental hospital with 45,000 patient consultations a year . |
| 14 | The People attacked him for accepting the freebie during the 1990 Gulf crisis . |
| 15 | The Israelis accused him of selling nuclear information to the Iraqis in 1985 . |
| 16 | The National Security Court was abolished and President Mohammed Siyad Barre was obliged to stand down as chairman of the ruling Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party ( SRSP ) , the constitution preventing him from holding both posts . |
| 17 | The malais removed him without punishing him especially ; I guess he was permitted to spit on me . |
| 18 | Even as he uses the accommodation in Annexe A to manoeuvre Serafin into discovering for himself the waiting garret , so he is using the garret to manoeuvre him into rejecting all the proposed associates in Annexe B. Once Serafin has insisted on installing himself in the garret — against all reasonable advice — he is going to discover that the kind of staff he needs will be young and agile , with a good knowledge of the backstairs of Government buildings and an ability to duck their heads and remain inclined slightly forwards for long periods of time . |
| 19 | Williams , Textbook of Criminal Law , 2nd edn , Stevens & Sons , 1983 , 764 , criticised Pitham : if a butler invites the maid to join him in stealing the Duke 's silver when he has found the key to the safe , surely he has not at that time appropriated the silver . |
| 20 | It is one of the two arguments I will examine that are advanced on behalf of the doctor to justify him in overriding or disregarding the expressed view of his patient . |
| 21 | Although the show elevated him from struggling stand-up comic to greeting card icon in two short series , last spring Damon bailed out of In Living Color to devote his energies to writing and starring in films . |
| 22 | Lissa did not know where she found the strength to answer him without betraying anything of her inner turmoil . |
| 23 | When Dustin heard news of the ensuing blaze , he rushed back to the scene , and was able to push through the gaping crowds to pull three of his modern paintings and a Tiffany lampshade from the smoke-filled Federal-style building , before the police prevented him from re-entering the house . |
| 24 | He seemed as happy as Larry trailing round the greasy dustbins of Bristol till nuclear war broke out or the police nabbed him for pilfering a used Tesco bag . |
| 25 | Political leaders in the Congress accused him of adopting an autocratic style , and critics also alleged that the government was both inefficient and corrupt . |
| 26 | He looked in that direction but the blindfold prevented him from seeing who had spoken . |
| 27 | The Minister surprised him by getting up . |
| 28 | He was n't expecting the jarring shock that shot through his other arm but the shortness of the flex prevented him from pulling it more than a few inches off the table . |
| 29 | Brown 's unpredictability and his refusal to endorse Clinton led to attempts by senior members of the party to prevent him from addressing the convention . |
| 30 | Taylor was upset with Platt before the Turkey game for not informing him of the serious nature of the injury but the player surprised him by playing at Wembley with his usual effectiveness . |