Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] he [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An eagle , gleaned with a 10ft putt at the 13th , got the Hope of Hertfordshire back on track but a bogey five at the 17th pegged him back again . |
| 2 | She was better off without him and we were n't sorry to see him off our patch . ’ |
| 3 | All that holds him back from doing it himself is the desire for an heir to the clan — an heir of his own blood ! ’ |
| 4 | In conversation with the boys they learnt of Minton 's homosexuality and though this ruled him out as a potential husband it did not diminish their desire to be in his company . |
| 5 | From this he deduced that the boiler was too small and this led him on to wondering why the engine was so inefficient . |
| 6 | Suddenly everyone was prepared to write him off . |
| 7 | ‘ Where is he ? ’ she snapped , her tone suggesting that she was prepared to track him down . |
| 8 | To those who urged the perennial claims of the virtues of community living and quoted Ecclesiastes 4:10 " Woe to him who is alone when he falls ; for he has not another to help him up " , Rolle answered : they do not define " alone " as being " without God " but understand it to mean " without company " . |
| 9 | At no time should a true satyāgrahi or a brahmacārin seek to avoid the company of women , but whether this justifies him in openly seeking the company of women in order to prove the strength of his brahmacārya vow , as Gandhi himself occasionally did , is a highly debatable point . |
| 10 | The tepidity of most British cinema during the 1950s made Anderson resistant to the values of commercial filmmaking , and this cut him off from the possibility of developing his critical argument through filmmaking . |
| 11 | Point taken , and I really feel sorry for Rocky at the moment , and hope he does n't leave , but I think with a player like Strachan at the club , who I believe is one of the best players in the Premier League at the moment , I think it would be foolish to leave him out . |
| 12 | He has promised to contact Ron direct to keep him up to date . |
| 13 | In some ways it was easier having him around where she could at least keep an eye on what he was doing . |
| 14 | Palmer now thought about testing the idea , and this brought him back to his original thoughts about the helium . |
| 15 | This put him off personal involvement in scientific research but probably provided material for his novels The Search and The Affair . |
| 16 | Hodkinson 's promoter , Barney Eastwood , revealed : ‘ French TV loved Paul so much they are willing to have him back before Christmas and fight an opponent of his own choosing . ’ |
| 17 | Doctors were hurrying to him now , lifting him with careful , expert hands , speaking soothingly as they helped support him and half carry him back towards the wards . |
| 18 | A left-hook hurt Ekubia in the sixth round , and then another put him down for a count of nine . |
| 19 | He thought it wrong to take him out of Cambridge so quickly . |
| 20 | He 'll feel more in touch with things , Madeleine said : and it 'll be easier to move him in and out . |
| 21 | But he seems to have one problem that I 'm too embarrassed to ask him about . |
| 22 | From there , if and when it became possible , he would be taken to the castle at Soragna where the Principessa Meli Lupi was prepared to take him on in the guise of a gardener — a refugee who had been rendered deaf and dumb in the bombing of Milan . |
| 23 | Yeah , the one thing you have got there is that people are prepared to take him on . |
| 24 | yeah , whereas if you had the situation where people were n't prepared to take him on , it could be awful |
| 25 | Now Amsterdam seem to be willing to take him on despite the scandal , and are presenting him as an exciting and controversial figure , while many of his former colleagues in The Hague admire him , as do the public ; he is seen as decisive , inspiring and provocative . |
| 26 | He found another vessel whose captain ( a Scot ) was prepared to sign him on for the voyage to New York . |
| 27 | This brings him back to another of Mr Major 's weekend promises , to give people more of a stake in their local administration : ‘ If they are going to bring local government closer to people , it has got to be more responsive to the wishes of people , and less to the wishes of central Government . |
| 28 | We did n't half cheer him on . |
| 29 | One confident stride after another pushed him out across the ice until he wheeled sharply , shedding a spume of flakes at his feet . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't see what 's funny , ’ Carrie said , and this set him off properly : he laughed so hard that he had to stop running . |