Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] he [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally he encountered no opposition based on nationalism , but his fervent support of Islam led him to abandon the tolerant policy his predecessors had adopted towards the Hindu majority , and this probably intensified resistance to his advance . |
| 2 | His appeal came as another father caught up in the Warrington bomb tragedy said he felt the whole country was urging his son , the critically injured 12-year-old Timothy Parry , to survive . |
| 3 | They did it , very slowly and tenderly , and then drove on again ; and then Boy made him stop the second time , in a layby with the first lorry headlights going past , and the man took Boy 's cock in his mouth again , and masturbated Boy again so that he came a second time , and then they drove again . |
| 4 | And just a week before the Council opened he warned the papal curia that it must not be an obstacle in the way of reform . |
| 5 | He was never a precise golfer in the mould of Hogan , but his magnificent tactical management enabled him to calculate the exact odds in moments of high tension . |
| 6 | Only when he saw others smiling and laughing did he give the little barks . |
| 7 | Boy did he have the last laugh . |
| 8 | An alien terrorist organisation called Gamma 693 took the opportunity to inflict damage on the Terran empire , sending space mines and debris to prevent him reaching the afflicted planet . |
| 9 | He wondered afterwards whether his unlooked-for success in the examination caused him to read the wrong subject at the university . |
| 10 | Scott 's urgent pleas to the Prince Regent , the future King George IV , had resulted in a Royal Warrant permitting him to open the sealed Crown Room in search of the Scottish crown , sceptre and sword of state — the ancient Honours of Scotland , locked away since 1707 following the Treaty of Union . |
| 11 | ‘ But will he if the person facing him has the same weapon ? |
| 12 | The only evidence suggests he hit the central barrier first then the coach . |
| 13 | Danny was heavier by at least two stone , and his upright stance made him appear the taller of the two . |
| 14 | The status which it gave him as a disinherited lord led him to oppose the Anglo-Scottish truce of 1323 and helped to persuade him to turn his coat shortly afterwards . |
| 15 | Fanatics carry a huge ball and chain , a weapon so large that it would be impossible for a Goblin to pick up in normal circumstances , but the Fanatic 's strength is boosted by fungus beer enabling him to swing the heavy ball round and round . |
| 16 | venerable old Jew whose noble nature and gratitude to Fledgeby for releasing him from debts owed to Fledgeby 's father cause him to serve the young man devotedly as agent for Pubsey & Co . |
| 17 | His father encouraged him to read the historical books of the Bible . |
| 18 | But as he made his getaway , shoppers wrestled him to the ground forcing him to drop the stolen loot — along with £200 he had stashed in a pocket — and he fled empty-handed . |
| 19 | The store manager said he found the new technology more labour intensive and less flexible . |
| 20 | Clark 's argument might appear to be on firmer ground had he restricted the human comparison to total imbeciles ( anencephalics and the like ) where the complete lack of linguistic ability , and even of its behavioural prototypes in many cases , would prevent any appeal to exclusively human propensities . |
| 21 | This DC is the authority given by LIFESPAN to the user to allow him to update the new package . |
| 22 | For the next few weeks the male passes food for his entire family through this hole until the female breaks the wall down and leaves the hole to help him collect the increasing quantity of food demanded by the growing chicks . |
| 23 | J. Riley , aged 14 , started his apprenticeship on 31 July 1903 at 45 and the wage-book shows him getting the regular rises described above . |
| 24 | As the army advances he wields the magic Staff of Command , striking down his foes with devastating spells while the Jade Griffon allows him to survive wounds that would kill a lesser man . |
| 25 | But , speaking about his shattering experience for the first time , the England winger admits he feared the worst . |
| 26 | ‘ I thought it was food poisoning because I had prepared fish which I had not cooked properly and when the doctor arrived he thought the same way . |
| 27 | Burden left him contemplating the printed tea cloth as if , were it possible to transmute it to paper , reduce its size and multiply it manifold , he would be a happy man . |
| 28 | Each must decide as he pleases , according to whether his temperament urges him to prefer the prolific , radiant , almost jovial abundance of Rubens ; the mild dignity and eurhythmic order of Raphael ; the paradisal — one might almost say the afternoon colour of Veronese ; the austere and strained severity of David ; or the dramatic and almost literary rhetoric of Lebrun . |
| 29 | She went to her GP to ask him to prescribe the oral contraceptive and , before he prescribed the pill , he examined her thoroughly , including a vaginal examination . |
| 30 | His co-pilot radioed the command centre , requesting a fix in order to enable him to plot the best route back to Britain , or at least to the channel where he could be picked up by the coastguard or a spotter plane . |