Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 31 | The man who , up to then , had experienced 18 years as a player at the highest level revealed how the sack made him determined to prove he had not suddenly become second rate . |
| 32 | That was the year the city 's deputy was found beaten to death , in a village near Riba ; the landlords had paid a gang to kill him , just as they did in the old days , before Davide left for America . |
| 33 | Faldo took his 1992 winnings to a world record £1.5m , while Norman 's only consolation was that the £190,234 runner's-up cheque made him the first player in history to breech the $10 million barrier in career earnings . |
| 34 | During the two shorts months that it took to draft the White Paper , opposition could be quelled , using the new powers and wholehearted support given him by the Prime Minister . |
| 35 | Naturally he encountered no opposition based on nationalism , but his fervent support of Islam led him to abandon the tolerant policy his predecessors had adopted towards the Hindu majority , and this probably intensified resistance to his advance . |
| 36 | ‘ Have you sailed the rivers long ? ’ red-haired Darmid asked him . |
| 37 | DR Robert Jones , who was repeatedly quizzed after the murder of his wife Diane in 1983 , yesterday began an appeal against the General Medical Council 's decision to suspend him over an alleged improper examination of a patient in Coggeshall , Essex . |
| 38 | The head of national television , Elemer Hankiss , initiated legal action in December to reverse Antall 's Dec. 9 decision to suspend him pending an investigation of charges of financial misconduct . |
| 39 | But his ruthlessness made him as much a figure of fun as a minister of fear , and whatever his future holds , Souness will always be pursued by a sense of resentment in Scotland . |
| 40 | I suspect that the driver thinks he 's using a sheet feeder . |
| 41 | And , when the cast of The Hooded Owl met him , they could understand why . |
| 42 | In the smaller areas he starts with pure watercolour but then uses white and yellow acrylic to enable him to work back light over dark . |
| 43 | His dribbly nose , crooked teeth and cheeky Cockney accent made him an obvious classroom victim . |
| 44 | he , he goes , he reckoned that , he reckoned that , that my blanket made him feel worse . |
| 45 | His Mum passed him his chips and crispy pancakes . |
| 46 | Quite different from her brother , who was slim where she was rotund , and whose dark hair lent him a certain swarthy , though boyish , kind of good looks . |
| 47 | I went down there one Sunday afternoon to see him working . |
| 48 | Although Daniel 's dark skin offers him the same protection as a mild sunscreen , it 's not enough to block all the sun 's harmful UV rays . |
| 49 | This split made him simultaneously very alert and extremely absent-minded , now on the ball , now off in a world of his own . |
| 50 | The Prince regarded him thoughtfully . |
| 51 | ‘ Gardening vexeth the spirit , ’ my dad used to say to me with a broad wink whenever my mum asked him to get out and cut the lawn . |
| 52 | Squinting her eyes , because the contrast from bright day to the deep shadow in the barn made it difficult to see where she was going , and wary of stumbling and falling over , she grabbed at the doorframe , and shot out her foot to trip him up . |
| 53 | The fact that it lacked heraldry around it was a sign that he belonged to no particular lord , though the blue sash announced he was attached to the Household of Ralarth . |
| 54 | Money fascinated him . |
| 55 | The abruptness of the change made him shudder . |
| 56 | As ex-Lord Mayor of Manchester and former chairman of that City Corporation 's Housing Committee , his experience led him to demonstrate that : The return of a Labour Government in 1929 provided an opportunity for a different approach . |
| 57 | Nkrumah announced another referendum to enable him to dismiss the judges and also to establish a one-party state . |
| 58 | Her calm , lazy response made him laugh . |
| 59 | Their casual acceptance of his presence made him edgy . |
| 60 | Eleven years later the World Federation of the Deaf at the seventh Congress in Washington awarded him an International Solidarity Merit Award , and Gallaudet College , taking advantage of his presence made him the first recipient of a medallion for " outstanding international service to the deaf " , which he received at a special convention attended by the Vice-President of the United States . |