Example sentences of "he [prep] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I admire him for remembering the day . |
| 2 | Selkirk 's provost , Tom Henderson , director of a textile dyeing company , berated him for damaging the image of the tweed trade . |
| 3 | Richard Baxter , during the one time he was asked to preach before Oliver Cromwell , had criticised him for weakening the Church by encouraging divisions . |
| 4 | This is why the experts of Jesus ' time criticized him for healing the sick on the Sabbath , accepting social outcasts , or infringing the fine points of the law . |
| 5 | She had rebuked him for drinking a bit too much beforehand . |
| 6 | However , even if we can not blame him for murdering the other in his sleep , we might respect him more if he did put himself at a disadvantage by clinging to one of his last disintegrating scraps of morality . |
| 7 | A small boy laughs an unforgivable sin in such a sober and wary atmosphere , his grandad scolds him for destroying the unquiet silence which haunts the underground , he grabs the toy gun clasped in his grandson 's fist and confiscates it after letting it wave foolishly , causing several greatly disturbed heads to turn , he buries into the depths of his duffle coat pocket . |
| 8 | Last November he appealed against the sentence , imposed on him for breaking a ban on keeping livestock . |
| 9 | The People attacked him for accepting the freebie during the 1990 Gulf crisis . |
| 10 | The twins had been furious with him for inviting the two evacuees . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | No one comes near him for stating the bloody obvious . |
| 13 | I had n't thanked him for doing the walls . |
| 14 | Although he had made it a condition of his NBC appearance that his whereabouts not be disclosed , Neal Miller called next day to say that he had taken over as his handler and to reprimand him for doing the broadcast without permission . |
| 15 | His relations gave him up , deploring his French expedition and the revolutionary sympathies it so clearly implied , and despairing that he would ever take the opportunities available to him for making a career in the Church or the law . |
| 16 | He did , however , mention his Stunt Bat which Graham Mackereth gave him for giving a speech . |
| 17 | The verdict on whether Mr Lamont will remain as Chancellor remained open last night , with many Tories seeing it as an electoral mistake to raise fuel bills in the run up the next election , while others praised him for tackling the public deficit . |
| 18 | Mr Anderson told the tribunal he could not apply for bad debt relief until 12 months after the debt had arisen while Customs had penalised him for paying the VAT ‘ a mere 16 days late . ’ |
| 19 | Privately , they have backed Lamb and admired him for disclosing the Pakistanis ' ball-scuffing skulduggery . |
| 20 | Indeed , as late as 1638 the lord deputy , Sir Thomas Wentworth ( later first Earl of Strafford , q.v. ) , was strongly critical of him for putting the interests of the Villiers family before those of the Crown , in connection with the Irish customs revenues . |
| 21 | I congratulate the hon. Member for Leyton ( Mr. Cohen ) on his success in securing this debate and thank him for raising the disturbing and important question of the use of knives in crime . |
| 22 | I salute him for having the courage to come off the fence ; though he leaves many of his colleagues still perching there . |
| 23 | She loved him for having the consideration to stop now . |
| 24 | Emily ? … laughing and teasing him about deserving a white feather … ? |
| 25 | During this time Mr Reynolds was taught breathing and leg exercises by the physiotherapist to prevent post-operative complications and the stoma care nurse , together with the ward nurses , taught him about having a colostomy and caring for it . |
| 26 | I 'm kind of partial to Teles , so I talked to him about making a Tele version . |
| 27 | On 5 September last year his girlfriend , Ann Tierney , could not wake him after staying the night with him and he was dead on arrival at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary . |
| 28 | RSPCA inspectors found him after combing the area for an hour following a tip off . |
| 29 | But that holding the afternoon off him after loosing a leg I think that was really terrible aye . |
| 30 | She could n't even accuse him of laying a finger on her , since she was always fast asleep when he joined her in the large bed , and the twins arrived to wake her up in the morning . |