Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] a [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He began his political career at St Andrew 's University , where he ran a campaign to elect Tory Nicholas Fairbairn as rector . |
| 2 | Hills v. Ellis the defendant was outside a football match where he witnessed a policeman arresting a person whom he believed to be faultless . |
| 3 | The sketch was one where he played a man contemplating how different life might have been had there not been a world war . |
| 4 | Nicholson went down to Rafelson 's office where he had a room made permanently available to him . |
| 5 | He said his hectic work schedule led him into a downward spiral where he needed a drink to relax and help him sleep . |
| 6 | He was a good-humoured Feldwebel really , although he had a tendency to panic and a tendency to be self-consciously patriotic . |
| 7 | Mr. Jonathan Thomas Carr felt offended by what he considered was the ugly and tasteless housing being erected in the London suburbs , so he produced a scheme to create a garden suburb of Houses without basements , and of character within reach of people with moderate means , yet at the same time , retaining existing trees wherever possible . |
| 8 | PAUL Gascoigne felt he was going to pot without his favourite cuppa — so he asked a friend to bring some English tea-bags out to Rome . |
| 9 | After all , they say that doctors make the worst patients ( so he had a point to prove ) . |
| 10 | ‘ So he had a lot going for him . ’ |
| 11 | Several years after the Tennant 's moved to Glenconner Farm , Ochiltree , old John Tennant learned that the village crier required a horn to sound before he made his proclamations around the district , so he had a silver mounting and mouthpiece fitted to the bullock 's horn and presented it to the village . |
| 12 | Mr Utterson knows that the true story will not be believed , so he invents a story to tell the police . |
| 13 | Until he had a style to forge , he felt listless , like some latter-day Adam , born with the power to impersonate but bereft of subjects . |
| 14 | That 's the only one that ever I remembered but they were all , and they you know they , they used to graze their horses up there in that field up at the top , and this Billy that used to go round all the district and , and buy up all these old cast horses and bring them up there until he had a consignment gathered up . |
| 15 | He did n't know Ken was there until he heard a cackle coming from the back of the stalls . |
| 16 | He did speak to Murray on the phone but says he can not clear the mystery until he has a chance to study the report in detail . |
| 17 | For centuries the traveller who wanted to cross a sea or an ocean went to the nearest port and hung about until he found a ship going in his direction . |
| 18 | He had a look about him , like he had a place to go . |
| 19 | He shuffled forward with bent head and arms folded tightly about his body as if he felt a mortal chill enclosing him . |
| 20 | If we , with our feeble skills and instruments had brought back ten men from the seeming dead , I understand all did get well , what could Almighty God do if He had a mind to do something similar ? |
| 21 | Oh , God , why was she explaining like this , as if he had a right to know ? |
| 22 | ‘ A person who receives goods on sale or return and at once passes them on to someone else under a like contract is entitled to demand them from that third person just as soon as the original owner of the goods has the right to demand them from him , but I am clear that , if he allows a period to elapse before he hands them on to a third person on sale or return , he has done an act which limits and impedes his power of returning the goods . |
| 23 | ‘ Nach Frankfurt , ’ he said gaily as if he anticipated a journey packed with thrills and amusement . |
| 24 | And if he wanted a promotion to go to a better school . |
| 25 | I wonder if he has a certificate to carry a weapon ? |
| 26 | If he has a reason to think otherwise then he says , not ‘ It is … ’ , but ‘ It looks … ’ . |
| 27 | These are moments of some tension , but if he has a team looking for the same thing , they are at least not lonely moments . |
| 28 | If he sees a woman undressing in a window , he 'll stop and have a look . |
| 29 | In discussing arrangements he will be asked if he wants a clergyman to conduct the funeral service and most frequently the answer to this is yes . |
| 30 | Even so , he managed to spend a Sunday sailing in a friend 's boat , had met a potter who was throwing a dinner service for him ( ‘ will you phone my father and ask him if he wants a coffee set as well ? ’ ) and had found ‘ some beautiful corduroys . |