Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When high rents and falling prices threatened the farm with insolvency he decided to use the experience he had obtained with domestic animals by training to become a veterinary surgeon . |
| 2 | In the sand you see the iron although it broke it more but this plough he 'd kept the thing fairly together . |
| 3 | Since his second stroke he had found the effort of conversation hardly worth the meagre rewards . |
| 4 | Then before she realised his intention he had slipped the doge 's ring on to her third finger . |
| 5 | When he asked Colm over the microphone how many goals he had scored the boy proudly replied ‘ Four ’ … |
| 6 | And erm he goes , say I , say , we 've got a runner today , Peony , but erm the lad 's got ta go he 's got ta go into the weighing room , wa well he 's , get his form , fill it in the weight he 's got the jockey who rides him , that 's got ta be erm , forty five minutes before the race . |
| 7 | At Keele he had edited the student Unit , with the future Time Out and City Limits editor John Fordham as deputy editor . |
| 8 | If anything , he was worse after the break ; even the words he had remembered the week before were now coming out jumbled and confused . |
| 9 | The governing principle , therefor , in Britten 's operas is the musico-dramatic thrust , and the words he set to bring the opera about are stepping-stones to the final product . |
| 10 | But there was no mistake when on 21 April 1823 , while still at work on the Crucifixion he had to put the project on hold . |
| 11 | Thoughts of Jimmy , however , brought the reminder of how on Friday he had brought the news — gospel , so he said , after so much rumour — that the top brass from Massingham 's were moving into the newly completed extension on Monday . |
| 12 | He did manage to read a paper to the British Society at a conference on Geography and Ethnology however , and the pictures he used to illustrate the item were very well received . |
| 13 | In his innocence he had allowed the salesman in to discuss doors . |
| 14 | travelling even faster than Chris … is rally champion Colin Mcrae he 's got the Banbury prodrive team into second place in the Swedish rally … |
| 15 | The gleaming black exterior with the polished silver lamp-brackets and the forbidding curtains within that could be drawn to hide its occupants from prying stares told him it was a mourners ' carriage he had spent the night in . |
| 16 | The only term he uses to characterize the content of these tales in advance is " " harlotrye " " , and this appears after he has not once but twice emphasized the purported social origin of these tales . |
| 17 | And asserts that he did it ignorantly not knowing there was any evil in it , and after the several members of the presbytery had dealt with him and endeavoured to convince him of the sinfulness of the said practice he seemed to dislike the practice of the charm and judicially promised to forbear it for the future . |
| 18 | And asserts that he did it ignorantly not knowing there was any evil in it , and after the several members of the presbytery had dealt with him and endeavoured to convince him of the sinfulness of the said practice he seemed to dislike the practice of the charm and judicially promised to forbear it for the future . |
| 19 | by skill and carefulness he had increased the family wealth and fortune and now he was a mighty man of wealth ! |
| 20 | For an hour they flew a repetitive zig-zag from their base to the Front and back , until Callaghan 's neck was stiff and his eyes ached ; but when he suddenly spotted an aircraft he wanted to shout the news . |
| 21 | That 's just Richard he likes to ring the door bell . |
| 22 | The pulling-back of 6th Armoured Brigade had given the Divisional Commander the force he needed to destroy the enemy . |
| 23 | His methods and his diligence were such that in less than six months he had completed the work which had been expected to take 2 to 3 years . |
| 24 | Within 18 months he had taken the club to the FA Cup semi-final and their highest League position in the club 's 87-year history . |
| 25 | In his early months he sought to stimulate the interest of the Cambridge Board in the appointment of resident tutors to pioneer development in the eastern counties of the District . |
| 26 | Horowitz told the guard he wanted to call the Frankfurt office . |
| 27 | No wonder he kept losing the battles . |
| 28 | Viewers latched on to , and sympathized with , a vulnerable character who was unable to keep a job — as a security guard he lost his dog and as a fireman he kept missing the fire engine — and roared with laughter as his world collapsed around him . |
| 29 | From around the middle of May he began to order the confiscation of the family 's land , although there were no legal grounds for its forfeiture . |
| 30 | From around the middle of May he began to order the confiscation of the family 's land , although there were no legal grounds for its forfeiture . |