Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb past] he [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normally , the smiddy would not have been opened on a Sunday but the animal was in pain and its owner said he needed the mount urgently . |
| 2 | Nothing became more important than whether the President had added his approval to this ‘ very strange ’ piece of paper , as Poindexter called it : a memorandum Poindexter said he had never seen before , and which Thompson found him reading the next morning over breakfast . |
| 3 | As his dive steepened he felt the speed pick up again ; there was still life in the controls , somewhere . |
| 4 | When he became known as the composer of marches and was about to take up his first bandmaster post , his wife suggested he use the letters on his case , S.O.U.S.A. as a professional name , and he took the names of his sons as his Christian names . |
| 5 | On the second occasion the wife of his landlord caught him thumping the side of the machine with his fist . |
| 6 | His father encouraged him to read the historical books of the Bible . |
| 7 | Only as Darwin began to form his theories did he realise the error of his ways on board the Beagle . |
| 8 | God and his Reason commanded him to subdue the Earth , i.e. improve it for the benefit of Life , and therein lay out something upon it that was his own , his labour . |
| 9 | One writer had the initiative to check with Muslim organisations when his publisher asked him to remove the term ‘ pig-out ’ . |
| 10 | When Ryoei Saito , 74 , president of Daishowa Paper Manufacturing Co , set the latest auction record ( $82.5 million for Van Gogh 's Portrait of Dr Gachet ) his representative said he regarded the painting as ‘ quite cheap , very reasonable . ’ |