Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told him this and asked him for a prescription for a warm , dry home . |
| 2 | Hopefully the next England manager will realise this and consign him to the scrap-heap as Taylor should have done years ago . |
| 3 | James and the Nazarean hierarchy send their own missionaries in his wake , to undo his preaching and compromise him with his own converts — for Paul , by now , is preaching something very different from what the Nazareans themselves , under Jesus 's brother , have sanctioned . |
| 4 | When will you realise that so-called ‘ funny-man ’ Vic Reeves is n't actually funny and see him for what he is — a talentless , dumb Northerner . |
| 5 | He 'd always been so clean before , so we knew there was something wrong and took him to the vet immediately . ’ |
| 6 | Maxim scouted the cottage to make sure it was empty then helped George over the comer of the dry-stone wall where it seemed strongest and guided him under a face-high clothes-line strung across the little lawn . |
| 7 | Much credit is due to the quick thinking of his jockey John Buckingham riding in his first Grand National , in steering him over to the wide outside and popping him through a gap . |
| 8 | If parents wished their son to become a Scribe they took him to Jerusalem at the age of thirteen and enrolled him in one of the Rabbinical schools . |
| 9 | Part of the cuff was visible and reminded him of Middy sleeping under the quilt . |
| 10 | Septimus Coffin , with a little bow of the head , retired and left him to it . |
| 11 | His eyes blackened angrily and Ruth supposed she had been right and exposed him for what he was — a cool bastard . |
| 12 | Phone Rich and ask him about the sound ! |
| 13 | Pilger then got even more upset and accused him of wanting to produce the Daily Star . |
| 14 | He comes away from the roots and I swing the rod over to my right , parallel with the water , to keep him low and prevent him from splashing at the surface . |
| 15 | The visit to Wagner 's Swiss home , Tribschen , in mid-May was the first of over twenty such visits made between 1869 and 1872 , the year in which first BT appeared and then , a few months later , Wagner , with his wife Cosima , moved to illegitimate daughter of Franz Liszt and wife of Wagner 's friend Hans von Bulow , eloped with Wagner in 1866 and married him in 1870 . |
| 16 | The prisoner pleaded Not Guilty through the preliminary hearings and trial in the King 's Bench Court , where Mr Justice Embury found him guilty and sentenced him to death by hanging . |
| 17 | ‘ The good men of the realm , great and small , rich and poor , by common assent ’ found him guilty and sentenced him to death . |
| 18 | He evidently intended that this should be the royal priest Eadsige , who took over some of Æthelnoth 's duties in 1035 and succeeded him in 1038 . |
| 19 | The parson there , the chapel parson , he went there ; and it just lifted the roof off the chapel like that and killed him in the pulpit , blew in the wall . |
| 20 | Then the older one bends over the younger and kisses him on the lips , hastily and shyly . |
| 21 | The moulding was hard and marked him for life . |
| 22 | Mr McTavish , studying Nails closely , thought the boy was ill and took him into the kitchen and made him a cup of tea . |
| 23 | ‘ Kevin Vose was 130th in the national and to beat him like that is a dream for me . |
| 24 | At a press conference he gave after the collapse of the coup ( on Aug. 21 ) Gorbachev recounted that a delegation , consisting of Boldin , Gen. Plekhanov , Shenin and Gen. Varennikov , had visited him at his holiday dacha in the Crimea on Aug. 18 and placed him under house arrest because he had refused to endorse a state of emergency . |
| 25 | ‘ She leads him a right dance , ’ the nans would say , during their daily exchange of news and analysis in the queue at the butcher 's , until finally she danced off for good and all and left him with his mother and his clapped-out BSA and his jars of Brylcreem and his collection of 78 records and a lifetime 's cumulation of unarticulated resentments . |
| 26 | Unionists were therefore beside themselves with joy when the Canadian electorate removed Laurier from office in September 1911 and replaced him with a Conservative , Sir Robert Borden , who now repudiated reciprocity . |
| 27 | It was held that the employers were in breach of their personal duty of care , as they should have told the plaintiff to test the sashes to see if they were loose and provided him with wedges . |
| 28 | He returned to politics in the mid-1920s , backed Al Smith in 1928 and succeeded him as Governor of New York . |
| 29 | ‘ Michael went down to his room to sort it out , they argued , and Banville went berserk and pushed him off the balcony . |
| 30 | Whilst I was behind Desmond he was on two engines and landed heavily ; one of his engines came adrift and preceded him along the flarepath . |