Example sentences of "[verb] he [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 2 | Eight days later , Scott received an official letter approving the design of the India Office and instructing him to proceed with the working drawings . |
| 3 | Richard suffers from narcolepsy … a condition of the brain which causes him to fall into a sudden , uncontrolled and spontaneous sleep several times a day . |
| 4 | She asks him to recognize his father 's wisdom in trying to encourage him to work for a steady position and shares his anxiety about delays with Blackwoods , over the publication of The Woodland Life . |
| 5 | The ‘ plot ’ has him searching for the lost chord , which is about as banal as you can get , but the contributors look interesting George Harrison , Charlie Rich , Betty Wright , John Sebastian , Rufus Thomas and Billy Swan are among them . |
| 6 | John 's wife Clare has to stand outside the stable on a crate with Milton 's tail over the top of the stable door and pull it from there , while John has him twitched at the front end . |
| 7 | 1966 found him guesting with the amazing Captain Beefheart on The Magic Band 's first album of psychotic psychedelic blues , ‘ Safe As Milk ’ . |
| 8 | The postman eventually found him canvassing on the High Row and handed over the State secrets there and then ‘ I was very impressed , ’ says Fallon . |
| 9 | When she got out of bed , she found him sitting on the top stair , listening to Dad and Mother downstairs in the kitchen , and crying . |
| 10 | When they entered his rooms , in answer to his hearty ‘ Come in ! ’ they found him sitting in the broken armchair , surrounded by books , his feet comfortably supported by a small wooden stool . |
| 11 | It had earlier looked promising for White , as breaks of 73 , 64 , and 52 helped him cruise into a 4-2 lead . |
| 12 | Two nights later , Derek was having a drink in the same hotel when the same person approached him accompanied by a second man who gave his name as Alexander Atkins . |
| 13 | Has he applied for the same thing ? |
| 14 | ‘ Has he acted in a strange manner recently ? ’ |
| 15 | He needs to know he belongs to the new family , that he is ‘ accepted in the beloved one ’ ( Eph. 1:6 ) . |
| 16 | Police say he escaped with a considerable amount of money . |
| 17 | Says 'e feels like a young man again . ’ |
| 18 | The reaction against extensive labelling deprives the visitor of useful didactic tools and forces him to choose between the weighty catalogue of nearly 550 pages and the intrusive Walkman . |
| 19 | Old school photo graphs show him sitting like a wise and attentive owl , surrounded by his charges . |
| 20 | What drove him to reach into the innermost part of his soul in search of the undiscovered ? |
| 21 | What drove him to reach into the innermost part of his soul in search of the undiscovered ? |
| 22 | He sometimes borders on triteness , but more often his straightforward approach allows him to speak in an authentic language which is easily understood and brilliantly evocative . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , I imagined him standing on a wee planet about the size of a football — ’ |
| 24 | She could feel him shrinking by the second . |
| 25 | But Rostov 's experience of the Empire had not prepared him to find at the same time a complete absence of the poor and underprivileged . |
| 26 | Dropping the bedding in her arms she held on to him and probably prevented him falling from the narrow landing down the stairway . |
| 27 | In charge on a caretaker basis since the October sacking of John Beck , Johnson had hoped his side 's Coca-Cola Cup defeat of Premier League Oldham on Tuesday would have seen him appointed on a permanent basis . |
| 28 | Harry signed for Palace after Manager Edmund Goodman had seen him play for the amateur side , Kingstonian , in a Surrey Charity Shield Final at The Nest early in the summer of 1921 , when Palace had just won promotion to Division 2 . |
| 29 | In fact , it was one of the few times I had seen him act in a civil way towards his stepmother . |
| 30 | he wo n't fly singles over water , at night , or over dubious terrain , though I have seen him fly over the odd potato field ! |