Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His son was educated at Winchester and Magdalene College , Cambridge , where he failed to take a degree , and preferred fast cars and horse-racing to the solitude of the bush . |
| 2 | He was educated at Harrow , won an exhibition to New College , Oxford , where he failed to take a degree , and finally went to Trinity College , Dublin ( BA and MA , 1919 ) . |
| 3 | Vulgar speculation about his love life usually enraged Richard ; there was still a mark on the pearl damask wall where he had hurled a glass of whisky on receiving the news that People magazine had voted him the World 's Sexiest Man of 1984 . |
| 4 | The younger one of Lord Shelley 's sons had come via Windsor Castle where he had shared a dancing class with the Princesses . |
| 5 | Even where he does show an interest in ‘ education ’ it is , as we have seen , only as a preventive device aimed at the public at large . |
| 6 | Up to the fifth floor , then walk down to the third , where he 'd taken a couple of rooms . |
| 7 | The man , wearing just sunglasses to disguise himself , is reaching into a plastic bag where he claims to have a gun and a grenade . |
| 8 | The South African , injured in a fall two weeks ago , has made a successful return to action , but still feels considerable pain in the lower part of his back where he has pulled a muscle . |
| 9 | The Hoflin affair had n't worked out quite the way he 'd planned either , although he 'd spent a lot of time and money on the little thing . |
| 10 | Nick is only a bystander , like the reader , and fairly impartial , although he does have a character of his own and separate events involved in his life , apart from Daisy and Gatsby . |
| 11 | And so it was that Eliot was immersed in what he called ironically " show business " , and although he had reached an age where he performed his tasks more slowly , now more than ever his life was being conducted under pressure . |
| 12 | The position here is that the landlord , although he had obtained an order of possession , had no right to resort to self-help to take possession of the premises in question . |
| 13 | A little later , Oliver woke up and was very anxious to tell his story , although he had lost a lot of blood and was very weak . |
| 14 | The loan of similar garments had been offered to both Alexei and Jotan ; but Alexei had not felt the need of protection from the elements and neither , apparently , had Jotan , although he had borrowed a sword . |
| 15 | Although he had had a smoker 's cough for years , it was not until last April that inoperable lung cancer was diagnosed . |
| 16 | Although he had had a smoker 's cough for many years , it was less than a year ago that he was diagnosed as having incurable lung cancer . |
| 17 | He has that ingrained self-confidence most commonly attributed to the grandest old Etonians , although he failed to win a scholarship there and ended up at Charterhouse . |
| 18 | Although he pretended to share a joke with the burly captain , Duncan was concerned . |
| 19 | Speed was a bit of a non event ( although he did score a goal ! ) and Deane lumbered about a bit , but was strong when he got the ball . |
| 20 | McHale will have to make his final decision in the next couple of days for , although he has reserved a place in the entry list with the Circuit organisers , two of his main mechanics are waiting for his verdict before deciding whether to join the World championship Toyota team on the Safari Rally in east Africa . |
| 21 | He 's not the greatest header of the ball although he has won a corner . |
| 22 | Thus immediately he managed to drive a wedge between the virtuous students , worthy of support , who studied sciences for the sake of society , and the self-indulgent arts students who pursued their chosen subject for the sake of their own benefit . |
| 23 | They walked back towards the houses , the clownish little man and the thin child — watching him , Nick thought he looked thinner than he had done a month ago . |
| 24 | Just as he maintained an interest in psychological theories of childhood , such as those of Iovetz-Tereshchenko , so he continued to take an interest in some of the anthropological material which came his way . |
| 25 | But new barriers were built up at every step , so he continued to seek an opportunity to resign , if this could be done without disobedience to the will of God . |
| 26 | Chamberlain returned to Britain and publicly proclaimed ‘ Peace in our time ’ but he had by now realised that Hitler 's word could not be trusted , so he endeavoured to form an alliance with Russia against Germany , the fear of Communism being overcome by the greater fear of Nazi domination , However , Poland refused to agree to Russian troops having the right to cross Polish territory for the purpose of attacking Germany from the east , so an effective alliance was impracticable and Russia became isolated from that proposed pact . |
| 27 | So I wrote him a letter , told him I 'm here , I ca n't get a job , so he managed to get a job for me . |
| 28 | I think he laid a joker card and I had a hand card up , so he had to do a kiss my hand . |
| 29 | He now earns his living as a lorry driver , so he had taken a week 's holiday to compete at Wembley . |
| 30 | Brits were bad for Colt , so he had hitched a ride away from the city , to the frontier , and crossed over to Iraq . |