Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] he [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On his first attempt to start he pumped the accelerator too hard and almost flooded out . |
| 2 | But unless the defendant admits he knew the report to be false the prosecution will have to rely on circumstantial evidence . |
| 3 | Even two years later , at the 1980 Annual General Meeting , the President said he felt the Constitution to be ‘ ideal for its needs ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | One diplomat said he saw the referendum , proposed by an important ally of President Corazon Aquino , as ‘ a way to manoeuvre around the Senate block , to isolate the Senate as an elite that is unresponsive to public opinion ’ . |
| 6 | But one inventor thinks he has the answer — a building material made of straw that can withstand very high temperatures . |
| 7 | That 's right , its a job Has he got the flight out there and everything , they pay for it ? |
| 8 | Her old tutor is horrified , but her husband says he supports the hunger strike -- even if it claims her life . |
| 9 | He used to be a professional sailor before an accident meant he lost the use of his legs , but he 's still able to pursue the sport he loves . |
| 10 | Not for one moment did he doubt the validity of those ideas . |
| 11 | AT THE University of Centreville , Maryland , a research programme which its director admits he obtained the money for by a far from rare academic tactic is showing some surprising results about human behaviour . |
| 12 | The chemist suggested he try the Co-op , or an hotel . |
| 13 | When the clerk returned he saw the letter , glanced at the door , in an attempt to see who had left it , then slotted it neatly into one of the pigeon holes behind him . |
| 14 | After Andrew Stavanger 's wife died he turned the house into three flats , and he lives alone in the top flat . |
| 15 | Detectives , who are treating the attack as arson and attempted murder , are hunting the baby 's father after his 31-year-old wife said he started the blaze . |
| 16 | When the over ended he took the umpire aside and explained ‘ I have two artificial hips and I do not really know where my feet are going to land ’ — he was given a special Man of the Match award . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Making life hell so he resigned , and threatening to expose his negligence to ensure he made the minimum of fuss , was much more acceptable to MacQuillan . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Normally , the smiddy would not have been opened on a Sunday but the animal was in pain and its owner said he needed the mount urgently . |
| 22 | An ordinary delegate said he rejected the idea of blaming only the previous leaders for past mistakes . |
| 23 | When the lifeboat approached he refused the rescue crew 's assistance so helmsman Mike Picknett called the police . |
| 24 | Could any man believe he had the right to send another to his death simply because he had once been to gaol ? |
| 25 | But the man said he believed the shooting of the teenagers was ‘ wrong ’ , and that by the morning after the shooting he realised the relevance of what he had witnessed . |
| 26 | Within six hours of the short film arriving at Twentieth Century-Fox 's studios in America , Crawford received a telephone call to say he had the part . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | Mr Bourne had a history of anxiety and agitation and a psychiatric report stated he found the world too difficult to cope with . |
| 30 | Sometimes when the Doctor spoke he told the truth , equally often it seemed he spoke lies and evasions ; he was a trickster . |