Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] he [vb -s] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , reports The Daily Telegraph , Dr David Wynne Evans a Welsh GP says he has the solution to the agonising pain of the Weaver 's sting — forget morphine and pethidine and instead apply very hot water . |
| 2 | But one inventor thinks he has the answer — a building material made of straw that can withstand very high temperatures . |
| 3 | Her old tutor is horrified , but her husband says he supports the hunger strike -- even if it claims her life . |
| 4 | A hairdresser believes he sees the ghost of a fellow-soldier ; spends some years in a mental hospital ; on his release is rejected by his wife who he believes is ‘ denying him his existence ’ ; begins to think that everyone else is denying him his existence , perhaps because he was once shot at by a German and they all think he is dead ; spends his Sundays looking into the river for the bullet which missed him ; after his death , his wife discovers she is pregnant ; she lets it be known that the hairdresser has spoken to her by night and told her ‘ he was very happy that she had recognized the child as his , because that way she had stopped denying him his existence ’ ; when eventually she moves away from Piacenza , the hairdresser stops speaking to her by night . |
| 5 | And despite the £1 million arrival of towering Dion Dublin , Ferguson is ready to give Hughes one last chance to prove he has the power to stay the club 's No 1 hit man against Sheffield United at Bramall Lane today . |
| 6 | The Miller , he states : and immediately before the tale commences he repeats the point : However doubtful we should be about attempts to associate the emergence of the medieval fabliau with any particular social class , it is significant that Chaucer wishes to represent the fabliau in precisely such terms . |
| 7 | The Shankill councillor said he wants the crash barriers erected on the Springfield Road close to the scene of an accident last week when a woman and her young child were struck by a stolen car . |
| 8 | AMERICAN comedian Milton Berle , 84 , claims his doctor says he has the body of a 40-year-old and adds : ‘ Even at my age the sex act is terrific — especially the one in the winter . ’ |
| 9 | This third body is disposed of , but as the porter returns he encounters the hunchback husband who he supposes to be the corpse returning yet one more time . |
| 10 | It is only when all the options have been considered , all the ideas have been exchanged and the husband still considers his plan to be more appropriate that both he and his partner understand he has the responsibility to follow that plan prayerfully . |