Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we 're gon na try get him to go out for a drink er one evening with that tape recorder so we 're gon na record the conversation on the side of that . |
| 2 | As she put her coat on she could hear him rattling about in a conspicuous way with pans and dishes , and talking to Tam . |
| 3 | Ask him to write down in a few words what he thinks his present image is , and what he wants his image to be , and he will most likely fail to do it . |
| 4 | I can remember willing him to jump out as a child . |
| 5 | Executive members of one of the party 's most active branches , Mossend , confirmed yesterday they had written to Mr Salmond asking him to stand down as a result of the MPs ' decision to strike a deal with the Conservatives in exchange for their votes on the Maastricht bill . |
| 6 | The yellow nylon shirt with the frothy frill amounts to an offence against taste bordering on the criminal , yet it somehow works to offset his complexion ( pale blue ) and the ensemble enables him to come on like a chat-show host from Hell — vast smiles and arms flung out in gestures of mock formality . |
| 7 | I ask him to come down for a few days and I also invite Lady De Marr . |
| 8 | He wanted the youth to go away , for in his mind he saw him fall back with a suppressed scream of terror and pain , holding a handkerchief to his face . |
| 9 | The loading had made him break out in a terrible sweat and perspiration ran down his forehead into his eyes . |
| 10 | He nearly caught me out with his C. S. Lewis , but I had him sewn up like a kipper with my Hermann Hesse . |
| 11 | All of his suspicions about women since Angela Deverill 's treatment of him came back with a rush , and he could not tell whether McAllister was registering shame or guilt . |
| 12 | He 's really gorgeous wee Simeon although our Joy lets him schlepp about like a Toerag . |
| 13 | And what do his parents think — him going off to a distant town with a stranger like you ? ’ |
| 14 | Fancy him turning up in a snivelling little place like Bethlehem . |
| 15 | Significantly , the one recorded local dispute in which he was concerned ( a violent struggle over the manor of Gregories in Theydon Garnon ) shows him drawn in as a political heavyweight to counterbalance strong support on the other side . |
| 16 | Significantly , the one recorded local dispute in which he was concerned ( a violent struggle over the manor of Gregories in Theydon Garnon ) shows him drawn in as a political heavyweight to counterbalance strong support on the other side . |
| 17 | This proved useful in later years as Minton would occasionally ask him to help out with a design . |
| 18 | In his Commentaries on the Laws of England published over half a century before the 1870 Education Act , Blackstone wrote that ‘ it is not easy to imagine or allow that a parent has conferred any considerable benefit on his child by bringing him into the world , if he afterwards entirely neglects his culture and education , and suffers him to grow up like a mere beast , to lead a life useless to others and shameful to himself ’ . |
| 19 | We 've got him banged up in a high-security cell . |
| 20 | Only he knew what an effort it cost him to climb down from a helideck onto a drilling rig . |
| 21 | Havis persuaded British Airways to let him ride along on a New York-to-London Concorde trip . |
| 22 | They left with him tied up like a criminal . |
| 23 | At the most extreme , Pascale ( 1984 : 65 ) suggests that rationality as such is an ethnocentric cul-de-sac , and the standard business-journal exercise of learning-from-the-Japanese for him boils down to a flight from rationality and emulating the inspired but erratic hit-or-miss business behaviour of Soichiro Honda . |
| 24 | Then he nudged Wa again , and sent him scurrying off down a nearby alley into the heart of the city . |
| 25 | Right , I 've just got a , two or three minutes , I 've just wan na get something quickly done before we , we close and I 'm not gon na look up all the references , because your get them for next week any way in , in the house group , but , now , now in a sense it 's difficult to understand to take all this in after all his God and were people , how do we understand Jesus , it 's , it 's difficult , however knowing something about them does help us to understand something important , it helps us to understand what happened when Jesus ascended , when he went back to heaven , you see when Jesus arose from the earth the , the disciples who watch him it says there in Acts chapter one , they saw him go up in to the heaven , up into you know in a cloud , have you ever thought what that really means what on earth was it , they saw him go up in a cloud , can you image a sort of great clouds coming and dropping down over the mountain top there and was suddenly whisking Jesus up and then watching Jesus going up in this cloud into the sky , I do n't really think it was quite like that , have you ever wonder why it was that Jesus went up in a cloud , you see what was he doing , he was n't beginning a journey to some far off place in the universe , some distant corner where God the father was , he was n't doing that at all , what do you think a cloud can you , give any suggestions of what a cloud might represent because very often a lot of some of the language in the bible is picture language and it , it , it speaks as something else , what do , what do you think a cloud , does any body have suggestions of what a cloud might speak to us about , or speak to us of , sorry , power yeah , any thing else |
| 26 | I felt him go off for a few seconds . |
| 27 | Len 's mop of unruly fair hair always made him stand out in a crowded goalmouth but , even over 30 years later , he continues to stand out in the memories of Palace fans who saw him play for our club . |
| 28 | The decision appears to have been prompted in part by an assumption that it would either discredit Heseltine by forcing him to back off from a challenge ( which was thought most likely ) or , if he did stand , give him insufficient time to mount an effective campaign . |
| 29 | Nell helped him to lie down on a blanket , supporting his head with another . |
| 30 | Those plans hit the rocks amid reports that Jacko was horrified when Madonna told a gay magazine that she wanted him to hang out with a gay dance troupe and become more hip . |