Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] he [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this prompting the Base controller also saw a trace which led him to challenge the aircraft 's position report at BN . |
| 2 | Then Nomadic Way brought the stamina which enabled him to win the Cesarewitch two years ago into play and finishing well up that final testing hill , he failed by only a head to catch Cruising Altitude . |
| 3 | He should have read the writing on the machine they gave him to spin the golden thread . |
| 4 | The appellant was detained by a booking clerk who saw him putting the coins into the machine . |
| 5 | In order to claim a scientific status for Marxism as knowledge rather than ideology , or non-knowledge , Althusser invoked Bachelard 's historical epistemology which allowed him to posit the idea of a radical discontinuity between the two , with Marxist science separated from earlier forms of non-knowledge in Marx 's texts by an ‘ epistemological break ’ . |
| 6 | Douglas affected a dispatch box pose which enabled him to deliver the juicier bits of the legal volte- face to a point in the mid-distance somewhere above the Opposition gallery . |
| 7 | To her consternation she saw him push the door to a close and felt the pulse drumming in her throat as the lethal blue stare narrowed . |
| 8 | His first posting in 1915 took him to the Toba Batak country in Northern Sumatra in time to witness the Muslim Acehnese rising against their Christian rulers ; an event which made him appreciate the approaching crisis of Islam as a focus for nationalism , and impressed upon him the urgent need for Muslim-Christian accommodation . |
| 9 | His pictures are not narrowly documentary though but rich in personal observation and involvement in the visual event which urged him to press the shutter and preserve the stilled vision as a permanent memory-image . |
| 10 | His pictures are not narrowly documentary though but rich in personal observation and involvement in the visual event which urged him to press the shutter and preserve the stilled vision as a permanent memory-image . |
| 11 | ILY BRATINA , an economist and veteran of two world wars and the Russian Revolution who said he saw the charred body of Adolf Hitler in his Berlin bunker , has died aged 96 . |
| 12 | " The drink you gave him brought the truth out , Gordon . |
| 13 | The same tenacious vanity which enabled him to survive the next nine years of penury wrecked his chances of succeeding as a writer . |
| 14 | Fogerty , 23 , appears as a South African boxer — a role which required him to join the actors ' union Equity . |
| 15 | ‘ The accident might have been avoided if he had adopted an approach which enabled him to keep the crane in sight . |
| 16 | Savage vividly remembers the incident which forced him to quit the game . |
| 17 | The man who said he saw the ‘ green shoots ’ of recovery nearly two years ago claimed that under Tory rule the country had done better than many of its competitors . |
| 18 | The identity of the person who abandoned the Zodiac dinghy and therefore presumably planted the bombs has never been discovered but from the descriptions it seems fairly certain it was Bartelo from the Ouvéa , while the man who helped him get the dinghy into the water was Mafart . |
| 19 | A JOINER who claimed he contracted the lung disease asbestosis while making doors for the Clyde-built liner QE II has been awarded £43,000 by a judge . |
| 20 | I blurted out to Dominic how I had been feeling and to my astonishment and relief he said he felt the same — trapped and resentful . ’ |
| 21 | It seemed impossible he would escape detection , and with each yard he covered he expected the alarm to be raised from within the house . |
| 22 | The 24-year-old local hero failed to find the superb form which saw him win the French Indoor Championships , as he lost his first match to Pete Sampras , 7–6 ( 7–5 ) , 7–6 ( 7–3 ) . |
| 23 | The Forbra Gold Challenge Cup Handicap Chase provides an ideal chance for Major Match to return to the form which saw him win the Charisma Gold Cup last season . |
| 24 | Mr. Bonanza had told me earlier that day of his intention to get the girl away that night , but unfortunately he had a stomach disorder which caused him to postpone the trip twenty-four hours . |
| 25 | In this endeavour he thought he had the backing of the great poets and romancers , like Sir Thomas Malory or the anonymous authors of Pearl and Beowulf and The Wanderer . |
| 26 | He was sitting at an angle which allowed him to watch the door . |
| 27 | The only other sighting we 've had was a farm worker who thought he saw the car up towards Cumbermound about nine . |
| 28 | The tears gathered more thickly in his eyes and in the partial darkness he imagined he saw the form of a young man standing under a dripping tree . |
| 29 | As I said to Kay it 's Terry that does all , he gets the money in , he pays all the bills , Muriel brings him the bills , I said he does all that apart from the fact I said he spent the whole day yesterday , the whole morning yesterday here clearing this , oh she said I did as well , erm you know help , I said what you , but as well as clearing |
| 30 | His hand wavered , and she noticed the steel discipline which made him drop the phone back in its cradle and wait while she sipped the water . |