Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [to-vb] he [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was just enough slope in the field to give him a decent run , though she felt sure it must be frustrating for someone so skilled to be stuck on what was little better than a nursery area . |
| 2 | Seven years later , however , Christien has not only got over the pain but has used the experience to make him a better actor . |
| 3 | Darlington borough councillor Paul Geldart last night revealed how Mr O'Hare had begged the authority to find him a new home . |
| 4 | She went for an hour and a half to give him a hot cooked dinner , which she had prepared in the morning , and to wash up afterwards . |
| 5 | In 1829 , as the lad approached the age of 14 , decision time was coming ; if Benjamin had any yearning to go to sea like his brother , he seems to have kept it quiet , but there was every need to find him a safe and secure job with prospects . |
| 6 | After a few days she even left the cubs for a while to give him a reassuring lick . |
| 7 | Later he agreed with a sub-purchaser to sell him a similar cargo at 19s. per ton . |
| 8 | In 1649 the Rump Parliament rejected a motion to make him a full treasurer , but in 1652 he became co-treasurer with an obscure backbench MP , and from 1653 with Richard Deane [ q.v. ] ; they were also joint receivers-general of assessments , and thus responsible for the entire system of direct taxation and military expenditure . |
| 9 | Bracewell , 29 , claimed the directors backed out of a promise to give him a two-year contract by offering him only a 12-month deal to stay . |
| 10 | That is why , no matter what the last-minute mediators may say , there is a danger that their aim will be interpreted not as an effort to secure Mr Hussein 's compliance with demands that have somehow escaped his attention , but as an attempt to offer him an easy way out . |