Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , it is his questions , his ways of telling and , for want of a better phrase , his search in life that make Lepage the avant-garde artist he is . |
| 2 | Mozart spent part of the autumn of 1790 in Frankfurt , but failed to attract the financial success he desperately needed . |
| 3 | And you put up with his way of making decisions for you , even if , one day , you wake up and want to wear the green skirt he hates , watch Morse which he ca n't stand … |
| 4 | Like so many investors , Mr Tyson found himself having to go back to work to ease the financial strain he had hoped to avoid . |
| 5 | George Roman read me and after I 'd done the first reading he asked me about my own attitudes to the Part and then told me his as a director , which were completely different . |
| 6 | Yet Major did not choose to discuss the momentous decision he was about to take with his wife . |
| 7 | Perhaps when she made it clear he 'd got the wrong woman he 'd be sorry … |
| 8 | ‘ Although , when I was going he did give me a sort of squeeze and said I 'd got the loveliest mouth he 'd ever seen . ’ |
| 9 | If Lotta had n't made her entry on cue and Rune had decided to prolong the specious friendship he had conjured up until she had duly appeared on the scene … |
| 10 | Normally he handed over responsibility for the routine maintenance of their relationship to Ellen , but she was letting him down , so he was going to try the only technique he knew : drop some explosive overboard and see what floated to the surface . |
| 11 | While she claimed to have the upper hand he might well explain much . |
| 12 | Since becoming a professional photographer , he has undertaken a wide range of assignments but , from the beginning of 1986 , began restricting the commercial work he was offered in order to produce less technically-orientated , more creative images . |
| 13 | Subconsciously , she must have sensed the potent effect he could have on her , an instinctive recognition of the dangerous power he would assume if once she had known his touch . |
| 14 | They would have endured the worst torment he could have devised rather than betray Resenence Jeopardy . |
| 15 | Having discovered the true position he successfully claimed recovery of all dues paid in respect of exempted limestone . |
| 16 | The firebombing of the Sherman & Grant office premises had underlined the lesson , while taking care of the possibility that the elder one may have kept the severed finger he had been sent as a warning . |
| 17 | He continued to campaign successfully without ever managing to secure the British title he wanted to win and retired in 1939 with the racist rule still intact . |
| 18 | Managing to repair the Time-Space Visualiser he acquired from the Space Museum , the Doctor affords his companions the unique opportunity of viewing history as it happened . |
| 19 | Obviously John managed to hide the hard work he had put into unravelling the ‘ hideous complications ’ he found in it . |
| 20 | During one of the many radio interviews he undertakes during the week , he is asked to name the first record he ever bought for a programme called Super DJ On Line . |
| 21 | Owner Lachie Stewart aims to have re-built the 16th-century fortress he bought two years ago by December 1999 . |
| 22 | But where he did recognise the private sector he merely saw conflict and not the contradictory unity . |
| 23 | He had shed the formal suit he 'd worn previously and was dressed today in black trousers and leather jacket over a black silk shirt , sombre colours that only served to emphasise the olive cast of his skin , the night-darkness of his hair and eyes . |
| 24 | For a split second he experienced that same numbing fear he had felt the first time he had come under enemy fire . |
| 25 | Tsu Ma knelt down and held his shoulders , nodding , remembering how he had felt the first time he had seen the ritual , not then knowing what was happening , nor why . |
| 26 | Still trying to regain the imposing form he had displayed in the past days at Celtic and West Ham , there was a strong suspicion that McAvennie was past his prime . |
| 27 | Pooley had adopted the embarrassed tone he reserved for all conversations about the family estate . |
| 28 | He questioned the new Clause 's sponsors ' understanding of what was ‘ normal ’ , and for good measure said that when he had visited the Soviet Union he had not liked it — there were no sex shops , a lot of censorship , and they denied that homosexuals existed . |
| 29 | At the same time as trying to knot the heavyish material he peered down at his stomach . |
| 30 | Since early 1979 , Ayatollah Sayyed Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini had preoccupied the Western world he so despises . |