Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] he [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | He was survived by his wife Anne , daughter and heir of Richard Comport , of Eltham , and a son Comport ( born 1676 ) , who succeeded him in the baronetcy . |
2 | A playwright once responded to someone who asked him about the message of his play that when he wanted to send messages he did so by telegram . |
3 | She remembers the time he was coming out of his flat in the midst of a rainstorm and was approached by a young man who asked him for the price of a meal . |
4 | Victor Mature it was , no less , who led him to the Lord . |
5 | Heroes : Augusto Odone , who refused to accept there was no cure for his son , and Nick Nolte , who plays him in the film Screen drama : Michaela Odone , played by Susan Sarandon , nurses her son Lorenzo , Zack O'Malley Greenburgh , in a moving scene from Lorenzo 's Oil Prof John Sargent : helped pioneer treatment |
6 | While still in his teens , and with an audacity that marked his whole career , he made himself known to the officers conducting the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain , who recommended him to an MP for county Mayo , Ireland , as capable of providing the Mayo grand jury with an accurate county map . |
7 | One person whose eye he did catch was Patrick McGoohan , who recommended him for the role of cabin boy John Drake in Sir Francis Drake , a twenty-six-part adventure series made by ITC , whose boss , Lew Grade , was expert at making programmes that would sell to America ; one of them was Danger Man , starring McGoohan . |
8 | Taskopruzade 's grandfather , for example , studied under Molla Yegan , probably at some time alter 839/1435–6 , and it was Molla Yegan who recommended him for the post at Taskopru . |
9 | He did not look at the woman who passed him in the hallway . |
10 | ‘ When he talks to you he makes you feel as if you are the only person in the entire world , ’ said one woman who met him on the campaign trail . |
11 | Whether dining in the glittering salons of Mayfair or ministering to the sick in Yorkshire or Somerset , Smith reduced all who met him to a state of breathless mirth . |
12 | As he walked down the stairs it was the old lady who met him in the hall . |
13 | Fry said his farewells to the players who regarded him as a father figure before heading for home in Bedford a devastated man . |
14 | His injuries were so severe his own father who found him near a railway footbridge at Didcot Parkway did n't recognise him . |
15 | His seat is secure but he is also seeing the man who defeated him for the party leadership on the way to another victory for the Tories . |
16 | O'Neill denies using abusive language to referee Eddy Green , who dismissed him from the dugout during a win over Northwich on March 24 . |
17 | With scrupulous fairness Hall also reproduces in an appendix a report by Karin Figala of Munich , who provided him with a summary of her own research on Newton 's alchemical studies . |
18 | If it was Morrissey who would eventually encourage Stephen to write more songs ( for the set that would become the No.1 album , ‘ Viva Hate ’ , at the beginning of 1988 ) , it was Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr — now one half of Electronic with New Order 's Bernard Sumner — who provided him with the opportunity to learn his craft as the guitar player 's producer par excellence . |
19 | Reid 's star began to rise with a vengeance last year when he became associated with the stable of Peter Chapple-Hyam who provided him with the horse every jockey wants to have — a Derby winner . |
20 | Steve Richardson also moved up with a 70 in the company of Jack Nicklaus , who beat him by a shot , the difference being at the 18th , which Richardson three-putted despite only a wedge for his second shot . |
21 | Corsie 's semi-final opponent tomorrow will be Gary Smith who beat him in the final of the UK Championship five years ago . |
22 | Corsie 's semi-final opponent tomorrow will be Gary Smith who beat him in the final of the UK Championship five years ago . |
23 | Nevertheless , the Australian is still likely to preside over the punishment of the opponent who beat him in the World Open final . |
24 | He was saved by another servant who recognised him from the banquet . |
25 | It was Pam , much more worldly-wise than he , who told him about the affair . |
26 | 18 MINUTES : Le Tissier took a corner from the right and Hall , escaping his marker , connected with a tremendous header to score against the club who rejected him as a 15-year-old . |
27 | It was Alice Mair who directed him to the cottage . |
28 | Meanwhile Ben had gone off to move another lighter and was then intercepted by the Manager who directed him to the dock some way off . |
29 | Director Andrew V McLaglen , who directed him in The Way West in 1967 and who is no easy pushover for any temperamental actor , told me : |
30 | This is also the period when he hired as chauffeur and typist a young man , Alfred Agostinelli , who drove him to the seaside in a closed car , took him by the same means to visit many Romanesque churches in Normandy , and who was killed when the plane he was learning to fly crashed into the sea off Antibes in nineteen fourteen . |