Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [verb] he [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Wendt 's income puts him on a par with Peter Wood , founder of the Royal Bank of Scotland 's Direct Line insurance company who was paid £1.84m last year , but leaves him well ahead of other leading company chairmen . |
| 2 | The initial of the novel 's title promises withheld meaning , and is therefore more appropriate than Pynchon 's original title for the novel ( World on a String ) , but the absurdity of Stencil 's activities disqualifies him as an analyst of a hidden principle in modern history , signalled melodramatically as the ‘ Ultimate Plot which Has No Name ’ . |
| 3 | Jarvis 's money brought him in a tiny income , on which it was just possible to subsist if he walked everywhere , never went to the cinema , ate anything nice , smoked , drank , bought new clothes nor used the phone . |
| 4 | ROY KEANE last night revealed he will hold off Nottingham Forest 's attempts to tie him to a new long-term contract . |
| 5 | On June 17 the Colorado leadership issued a statement deploring and rejecting the Assembly 's decision to debar him from a second term . |
| 6 | WEST HAM stalwart Tony Gale last night hit out at the club 's decision to place him on the transfer list . |
| 7 | But Gloucestershire 's decision to place him on the restrictive List One of available players has been initially supported by the TCCB registration committee . |
| 8 | Robyn 's look left him in no doubt . |
| 9 | Filaret owed his eminence less to his holy office than to his son 's willingness to treat him as a co-ruler . |
| 10 | Winter had to aim Mandarin for the middle course but his mount started wandering off to the left before pressure from the vice-like grip of the jockey 's thighs pointed him in the right direction . |
| 11 | One of Nogai 's brothers slapped him on the shoulder , but Burun shouted , ‘ Which target were you aiming at , Nogai ? ’ |
| 12 | With Dara once more clinging firmly and rather painfully to her arm she was walked back to the small , intimate table they had been sharing on the edge of the small dance-floor , but Ace was quickly on to his feet , side-stepping Dara 's attempt to greet him with a kiss . |
| 13 | [ William Golding , The Inheritors ] It requires careful attention to realize that here we are seeing , through the uncomprehending mind of Lok , a man 's attempt to shoot him with an arrow . |
| 14 | But even though it did in a campaign where he was one of Tottenham 's top performers , Venables has been unable to keep his word because of chairman Alan Sugar 's attempt to oust him from the club . |
| 15 | The second lorry ran into the car 's side sandwiching him in the wreckage . |
| 16 | Wahono , general chair of Golkar ( the ruling Functional Group Centre or Golongan Karya Pusat ) , announced on Oct. 20 that President Suharto had agreed to Golkar 's plan to nominate him for a sixth five-year term as president . |
| 17 | A 16-YEAR-OLD boy who fired a catapult at a low-flying Sri Lankan air force helicopter yesterday was wounded when the copter 's gunner mistook him for a Tamil terrorist and shot back at him . |
| 18 | Even in a ‘ sweep ’ movie [ see 5 ] like The Last Emperor , O'Toole 's Law deprived him of a Best Supporting nomination . |
| 19 | Some treated Charles Manson as a hero , and the underground newspaper , the Los Angeles Free Press allowed Manson to write a column for them while he was in jail ; another , called Tuesday 's Child depicted him on a cross . |
| 20 | In the story of the rich man and Lazarus , the rich man 's wealth insulates him from the poverty and the suffering of Lazarus . |
| 21 | Van de Wetering 's criticisms of Goldreyer 's restoration landed him with a claim in damages for libel amounting to $25 million from Goldreyer 's lawyer , to which Van de Wetering has since replied by asking the court in New York to declare the claim inadmissible on the grounds that he does not fall under the jurisdiction of the State of New York . |
| 22 | Newley 's body ambushed him in the darkness . |
| 23 | Owen 's reaction touched him on a sore spot ; and it was made all the sorer by an angry feeling inside him that there had indeed been incompetence , Egyptian incompetence , that he , Mahmoud , was ultimately responsible for it — and that there was absolutely nothing that he could in practice do about it . |
| 24 | Both safely negotiated the treacherous short 15th hole and Faldo 's putter rescued him on the 18th green . |
| 25 | Olazabal 's finish hauled him to the top of the European order of merit . |
| 26 | Sweeney 's name pronounces him of the lineage of a man who sold human flesh for butchermeat , a ‘ demon barber ’ . |
| 27 | Joe started when Harry 's elbow caught him in the ribs as he said , ‘ I wonder if my illustrious brother will be as insufferable as he was during the Christmas holidays ? ’ |
| 28 | ALAN Healsey 's wife meets him at the back door of their home every night with a dressing gown . |
| 29 | Mr Gill 's wife nominated him for the prize for his purchase of the ‘ Astronomicon ’ , a poem in Latin verse on astronomy and astrology of around 1455–60 by Basinio da Parma , dedicated to Malatesta Novello , lord of Cesena , and probably made in Rimini . |
| 30 | Montag 's wife reports him to the Brigade and he is forced to flee , making his way to a place outside the city described by Clarisse , where a group of people have gathered together to memorise books , keeping the words immortal . |