Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [verb] he the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The club paid him the princely sum of £8 , a fee that has not risen much over the years according to some of Celtic 's more dour stars . |
| 2 | When the judge told him the only sentence he could pass was that of life imprisonment , Meehan said loudly and clearly , ‘ I want to say this , sir . |
| 3 | Perhaps his most inspired piece is the saga of Cosmo , the fairly accurate knife thrower , whose failure to see the point makes him the sharpest act in town . |
| 4 | His accuracy and stinginess with runs made him almost without equal as a one-day bowler , for he could both contain and attack at the same time since the bounce he got from his great height and the control he had over the ball gave him the extra penetration that brought wickets . |
| 5 | In addition his role as a member of the Commission gave him the personal opportunity to support the chaplains in their Ministry in the University parish . |
| 6 | The hectic action started in November with Clive Rice 's public-relations visit to India — Wessels 's successes on the tour earned him the man-of-the-series award — and ended six months later in frustration as the West Indians turned imminent defeat into a remarkable victory in one session on the final day of an historic Test , denying two excellent half-centuries by Wessels and Andrew Hudson 's debut century , the first for South Africa . |
| 7 | The journey took him the better part of an hour , due to delays on the Tube , but now , as he walked from the station , he felt a curious mixture of elation and anxiety . |
| 8 | The State made him the ecclesiastical head of the Church of England by trampling on the opinions of the relevant ecclesiastical authority . |
| 9 | ‘ My heart is completely enchanted with all these pleasures , because it is so jolly on this journey , because it is so warm in the carriage and because our coachman is a fine fellow who , when the road gives him the slightest chance , drives so fast . |
| 10 | The bishop gave him the extraordinary advice to go and be a curate again , at Boston in Lincolnshire . |
| 11 | He had heard nothing more of the plane until a newspaper phoned him the following day , Sunday afternoon . |
| 12 | Er someone tells him that , a policeman tells him the best way to look at it is if you were locked out your house |