Example sentences of "[vb infin] he [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the contempt with which Bogdanovic views Milosevic , he does not consider him as most responsible for the situation in which Serbia finds itself . |
| 2 | ‘ You can trust him for that . |
| 3 | We ca n't trust him after this . ’ |
| 4 | Both Lewis and Pound hoped that the Nobel would free him of that cautiousness which had smoothed his ascent . |
| 5 | ‘ Clover Lodge did n't suit him at all . |
| 6 | He would be going out soon , but an umbilical cord would still tie him to this house of death . |
| 7 | ‘ In fact , I did n't know him at all and he 'd managed to slip in and out of affairs before I even tumbled to the fact that he was playing around . |
| 8 | Daft as it may seem after three years of knowing Jim Bob , I still do n't know him at all . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't know him at all , really , ’ said Charlotte . |
| 10 | ‘ The thing is , ’ he murmured , sending her a smile that managed to be wicked and appealing all at the same time , ‘ I 'm so used to trusting Simon completely that I forgot you did n't know him at all . ’ |
| 11 | I do n't know him at all , I 've never met him . |
| 12 | No , I did n't know him from bloody Adam ! |
| 13 | But she frowned now , for how well did she really know him after all ? |
| 14 | ‘ Did you know him before this ? ’ |
| 15 | Why did they need him for this job ? |
| 16 | I wo n't need him after that . ’ |
| 17 | You may recall that I proposed earlier a scheme to do just that — namely , the registration of a new entry , but accompanied by a code known to the Registrar which would alert him in any case of attempted fraud . |
| 18 | This enables the interviewer to burrow much further into the complexities of some situations and may well introduce him to relevant factors which had not been thought of before at all . |
| 19 | I did n't introduce him to either of those things , his father Albert paints and my husband took it from him . |
| 20 | He rather hoped his wife would wake and catch him like this , unshaven , hair greasy and uncombed , and as he stood beside the bed he farted quite loudly , as if to remind her that she deserved someone as awful as him . |
| 21 | So it was really stupid of him to let you catch him after all . |
| 22 | Soon , however , he was confronted with the ‘ actualities of war ’ during a visit to a casualty hospital , and the bullet-holed limbs and suffering he witnessed there helped purge him of such studied hauteur . |
| 23 | Alured 's son John became a colonel in Ireland but did not survive him by many years . |
| 24 | One could scarcely describe him as some kind of father-figure ! |
| 25 | PAMELA : Well , suppose he should resolve to ensnare a poor young creature and ruin her , would you assist him in that ? |
| 26 | All personnel , military and civil , without distinction of rank will assist him in any way he sees fit . |
| 27 | Jackson said : ‘ I told Nigel he was too thin to play rugby and that they would break him in half . ’ |
| 28 | Apparently , the free spending Italian club AC Milan were so taken with him that they offered Celtic a fee of £100,000 for his services , only to recoil in fear when the club 's manager Jock Stein told him they could only rent him for one game for that amount . |
| 29 | He grew a real beard , which would incommode him for other parts ; he thought , behaved , responded Learwise , in as short-sighted a fashion as that monarch would have done , having handed on his characteristics to his youngest daughter . |
| 30 | Assistant manager Eddie Stein , who had taken temporary control , said : ‘ The chairman did ask me how I felt about Barry possibly coming back earlier this week and I told him I 'd welcome him with open arms . |