Example sentences of "[verb] he [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's true enough , ’ said Meredith and , unable to apologise directly for his outburst at rehearsal , invited him instead to dinner that evening at the Commercial Hotel . |
| 2 | I then went to see three other patients and returned to review the child about twenty minutes later to find him totally at peace and asleep , with no evidence of any respiratory problem . |
| 3 | He groaned and stumbled forward , almost falling against the tiled floor , but one of his courtiers caught him just in time . |
| 4 | An editor will appreciate it if you supply him regularly with information about the company , giving him advance warning of changes and additions to the product range , the factory or indeed any aspect of the company 's activities . |
| 5 | Coming from a Communist family background in the early 1960s , the pull of the underground- and a trip to South America — had sucked him away from politics . |
| 6 | The nurse may also come back in the evening , especially in the beginning , in order to help the patient with medicines , such as insulin injections for diabetes , and to position him correctly in bed . |
| 7 | Though it looks painfully obvious described so baldly , this scheme is wonderfully successful in dramatising the way in which life gradually closes in on Peter , driving him inexorably to madness and suicide . |
| 8 | To Tolkien , with his theory of dragonish ‘ bewilderment ’ , it meant more likely ‘ stayed with its possessor ’ , driving him insidiously to greed and cunning . |
| 9 | — Does she torment him merely for sport ? |
| 10 | Wanderlust affected him even in retirement , when he and his sister Phyllis deserted suburban Didsbury for rural Whaley Bridge — nearer to walking country , of course , and to places he could paint . |
| 11 | His insights and skill have made him much in demand as a consultant . |
| 12 | Before , she had seen him comfortably as part of the family , so to speak . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's another thing , ’ Candy continued , far too old a hand at the game to be distracted by such a blatant bid to change the subject , ‘ I 've seen him deep in conversation with quite a few people in the club recently . ’ |
| 14 | She had n't moved or made a sound , just opened her eyes in the red-tinged darkness and seen him there without surprise as if she had been aware of his presence ever since he arrived . |
| 15 | Having seen him safely in hospital , though not in the best of health myself , I called at the poll tax office and waited one and a half hours in a very smoky atmosphere to have the summons withdrawn . |
| 16 | This darkness and this cloud is betwixt thee and thy God , and telleth thee that thou mayest neither see him clearly by light of understanding , nor feel him in sweetness of love in thine affection , and therefore shape thee to bide in this darkness as long as thou mayest , crying after him that thou lovest … |
| 17 | Soldiers fired on Aristide 's home in the poor suburb of Plains de Cul-de-Sac , where he continued to live , killing his security chief before leading him away to army headquarters . |
| 18 | I meet him regularly at charity events and we have had many a round of golf together . |
| 19 | She knew it would keep him away from home even more than usual , and wondered what Elaine thought about that . |
| 20 | Mr Souness , 39 next month , was yesterday admitted to a Cheshire hospital for triple heart by-pass surgery which will keep him away from work until next season . |
| 21 | She could n't touch him enough in return . |
| 22 | If Maureen was at home , she would drive into Oxford to fetch him home for lunch . |
| 23 | Inquiry ‘ The doctor looked at the bottle and rushed him straight to hospital . ’ |
| 24 | On their way to the magistrates they were stopped by Richard Baxter 's doctor who immediately ordered him home to bed . |
| 25 | Doctors at the East London rehabilitation unit where he is recovering are sending him home for Christmas with his family in Chingford , Essex . |
| 26 | Rainbow , whose Wyakin served him only after sunrise , fell in the first attack when his rifle jammed . |
| 27 | they had to leave him there in hospital . |
| 28 | It begins with the dead body being moved into the sun as the sun used to awaken him both at home and in the trenches , in France . |
| 29 | Embodying the alienation of the Westernized Latin-American intellectual , the protagonist of The Lost Steps , a musician resident in New York , recovers his lost identity as a man and as an artist when he undertakes an expedition to the jungles of the Orinoco , a journey that takes him backwards in time to a prehistoric world ; but his eventual return to civilization implies a recognition on Carpentier 's part that , for a twentieth-century Latin American , going back to one 's roots has to be compatible with the realities of the modern world . |
| 30 | Steve Astington says he was a rock climber and then moved over to marathons … this is his thirteenth … you have to put a lot of training in … he does them for the enjoyment it takes him away from life and all the stresses |