Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is hoped that in doing so , it will also help him to continue his untiring work for the Third World and enrich the lives of those poor people , particularly in Africa . |
| 2 | His cider sodden mind was causing him to treat his beloved motorcycle in a way he would never have dreamed of a few hours before . |
| 3 | Exhorting him to forgive his personal wrongs for the sake of his own greater glory , she sings an ariette about the dangers of being inflexible . |
| 4 | All eyes turned to see him twisting his triangular hat as if that action alone was holding him together ; his face white and despairing . |
| 5 | Thus it was possible for him to find his own men in the army which he was attacking . |
| 6 | I ask him to meet me that evening at the Three Pigeons . |
| 7 | She had an idea and asked him to meet her that evening at a time which allowed her to see Shildon first . |
| 8 | Once this trip was over she would let him know her real reason for taking this job with Woodline Design , then she would say goodbye . |
| 9 | The Court of Appeal dismissed the husband 's appeal from Mr Justice Ward who , on 17 February 1989 , had ordered him to provide his former wife with a maisonette worth £295,000 and a lump sum of £1m . |
| 10 | 's many friends , customers , colleagues and family helped him to celebrate his early retirement at a party at The Cotswold Water Park , near Cirencester on the evening of Friday , April 2 . |
| 11 | I put it down to the necessity for him to exhibit his physical superiority from time to time , in order to maintain his ‘ throne ’ and his following of stooges . |
| 12 | It gave him more time to devote to music and allowed him to pour his suffocating feelings of negativity into songs . |
| 13 | However , their nine-year-old son , Justin , did n't want to conform to his parents minimalist style , so they let him choose his own furniture from Habitat . |
| 14 | With the coat-collar of his Burberry turned up , he reminded her of a private eye in a film — she was under surveillance , everything about him accentuated his detailed analysis of her appearance , and she felt a shiver at what it might portend . |
| 15 | Bishop and rector expected him to serve his minimum engagement as a curate . |
| 16 | Rather than do a keyhole job on Loyd , TODAY asked him to choose his ideal home from the hundreds of celebrity houses he has visited . |
| 17 | But the jubilation in Kerak and Madaba may have led him to overestimate his popular support in the area where he has traditionally drawn his loyal troops . |
| 18 | A part-time soldier who was nearly killed when a grenade exploded just six feet from him celebrated his 50th birthday at home . |
| 19 | William II , Henry I and Stephen all won the throne by holding rivals at bay , and in each case warfare played its part ; in Henry 's case the battle of Tinchebrai ( 1106 ) enabled him to imprison his elder brother for life and made him secure in Normandy as well as in England ( see pp. 289 ff . ) . |
| 20 | His version of human freedom and motivation could easily have included poverty as a ‘ rational ’ reason for crime ; and there was no necessary reason for him to equate his social contract with the status quo as far as property relations were concerned ( after all , he did not equate it with the status quo in many other respects ) . |
| 21 | Her desire for such a life was so passionate , and her gratitude to Walter for this glimpse of it was so great that she could have kissed him in the street , and later that day she did in fact allow him to undo her brassiere strap without a word of protest . |
| 22 | Mr Keen saw John Neal , Willie Maddren , Bobbie Murdoch and Malcolm Allison come and go before work pressures forced him to leave his scouting post in the early days of Bruce Rioch . |
| 23 | In furtherance of that , may I urge him to bend his considerable energies towards the development of solar and tidal power ? |
| 24 | She had been content to stand by and watch him dig his own hole with a shovel . |
| 25 | The RPD presentation allows him to use his normal criteria in relation to R&D projects which result in new products . |
| 26 | The RPD presention allows him to use his normal criteria in relation to R&D projects which result in new products . |
| 27 | However , I was not prepared just to accept him with no experience at all and I asked him to give me some sort of evidence about the amount of flying he had done . |
| 28 | Nigel was glad as it saved him breaking his own rules about using the phone . |
| 29 | In the next lesson , I asked him to share his six ways with 1 in front , and I wrote them on the blackboard . |
| 30 | There was a stony determination there that set him examining his own resolution in a panic , in case there should be weaknesses in it he never suspected . |