Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] he [art] " in BNC.

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1 He expanded this idea at his next job interview , and finally his obsession with debt paid off : the aid agency offered him a position .
2 Even though Common had returned to the team for the last month of the previous season and kept them up when relegation seemed inevitable , the club chairman offered him a free transfer providing he did n't claim the £250 benefit money promised to him earlier .
3 ALEX FERGUSON revealed yesterday how he tried to sign Mick Harford just before the transfer deadline to win him the title last season .
4 Lack of sleep , food bolted too quickly , the heat and the night jogging gave him a dark-eyed expression of endurance .
5 But can the verification principle give him the right to do this , when those who take a different view from him feel entitled to claim that they are abiding by that principle ?
6 The Army List told him the father was dead , the Registrar General that his wife was .
7 Later that afternoon the duty sergeant allowed him an hour off to dig the grave in which they would bury Private Prescott .
8 Even Hun Sen , the Prime Minister , has asked the province committee to find him a village in Kep , according to Mr Sok Hay .
9 Then the understudy goes through agonies of indecision before the Company Manager gives him the order to get into costume and makeup .
10 The Spectator article secured him an invitation to Hampton Court and , having offered his specification for the repair work , he was duly hired .
11 The team on the accelerator pedal gave him a ‘ Who , us ? ’ look and stopped pushing .
12 As he was bending down to pick the post up off the mat he felt a cold hand on his exposed backside — little suspecting that it was the family dog giving him a friendly greeting .
13 A search party found him the next day , dead from exposure .
14 The overall four-match title , run on section points , went to Steve Cooper ( Anglers Choice ) for the second year as three wins plus a runner-up placing gave him an outstanding victory accruing 39 points from a maximum 40 .
15 A serving girl gave him a plate of fish and eggs , which he stirred with a fork , but did not eat .
16 The faint glow from a street light showed him the outline of a hedge , neat flower beds , a black oblong of lawn .
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