Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] he [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greenaway has said he hates the idea of a shot in a film being only a preposition , linking what went before and after — but what writer would think of despising a part of speech for performing its indispensible task ? |
| 2 | He has given very little account of how he spent his time , but he has said he spent the majority of that time with a travelling circus , both in this country and in the Irish Republic . |
| 3 | Although Mr Major has said he wants the debate over Scotland 's future to be extended , he has so far refused to be drawn on the need for a referendum . |
| 4 | The atmosphere was cordial and relaxed — the Emperor even entertained the children with conjuring tricks — and when the time came to leave he assured the Queen that ‘ If we stayed longer we should end up by forgetting France altogether . ’ |
| 5 | When he 'd finished he threw the beer-tin into the pool with the anemones in it . |
| 6 | He might not have thought he deserved the Man of the Match award on Wednesday night , but there can be no denying that the return of Gascoigne has transformed Taylor 's England from a farce to a force . |
| 7 | ‘ had with you ’ Means the accused must have known he had the weapon with him ( R v Cugullere [ 1961 ] 2 All ER 343 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ Just because he won a few stupid car races , ’ she went on , ‘ he seems to think he rules the world ! |
| 9 | When her sister rang to say he fitted the description of a wanted man given on BBC TV 's Crimewatch UK , he told her : ‘ Do n't be silly ’ . |
| 10 | As he started to speak he heard the line go momentarily dead and then break into a callbox paytone . |
| 11 | This judicial tinkering was justified because the court was ‘ sure that the altered decision represent[ed] that which the decision-maker would have enacted had he appreciated the limitation on his powers ’ . |
| 12 | Angalo had said he thought the inside of a plane would be a mass of wires and pipes . |
| 13 | Each person had thought that he or she knew him best and each person had felt he had the right to more sadness than the others . |
| 14 | I had understood he knew the man who is to chair the said development committee and it transpires he does not . |
| 15 | When the man had gone he closed the door . |
| 16 | The commercial manager had admitted he obtained the job ‘ because he knew Randolph 's brother ’ , and was ‘ totally out of his depth ’ . |
| 17 | The old warrior would have been flattered had he seen the care with which Washington prepared for his first visit . |
| 18 | When Gareth lived with us before he got married he turned the bath on and walked away and left it . |