Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was better at maths and science and practical things — you only had to show him a lathe in the metal workshop for him to pretend he had a fainting fit but when he wanted to beat me , he beat me . |
| 2 | Those who remember him say he had an uncanny knack of being instantly able to visualise a course even over rough ground or farmland . |
| 3 | I 've persuaded him to let us film an exclusive interview with him in his secret retreat ! ’ it would be a colossal boost for me . |
| 4 | I made him take me on a bit farther at the risk of him thinking I lacked the right sexual tactics . |
| 5 | And other top Tories like Michael Heseltine and party chairman Norman Fowler will share the platform with him to show he has the full backing of the Cabinet . |
| 6 | He got a little overtime and he made it go a long way . |
| 7 | Being a fanatic nonsmoker and health freak , he made us enact the ritual funeral of a cigarette end . |
| 8 | He goes I want the beautiful page three girl , Samantha Fox . |
| 9 | He insists he has an open mind on the players he wants to keep . |
| 10 | I think my father 's authority was irrational because he expected me to have no other interests outside my schoolwork . |
| 11 | She gave a similar answer when he asked her to open the automatic cash dispenser . |
| 12 | I was pleased when he asked me to do the test-flying programme for him and I had no qualms in agreeing , as I knew him to be a meticulous engineer . |
| 13 | I think he was surprised by my reaction , so he asked me to lunch the next day . |
| 14 | ‘ When Terry was coaching Barcelona and I went over to visit him , he asked me to bring a few pounds of good old English pork sausages because he was missing his bangers and mash for tea , ’ he explained . |
| 15 | ‘ He thinks we have a good chance on appeal , ’ said Middlesbrough Liberal Democrat councillor Joe Michna , another leading opponent . |
| 16 | ‘ He thinks he needs a whole new wardrobe for it , ’ she giggled . |
| 17 | And underneath the story started : Gallant young Dr Kit Masters , Oxford Boxing Blue , beat off a gang of three Blackshirts when he found them attacking an old man who ran a tailor 's shop . |
| 18 | I was interested to hear Derek remark how much more difficult he found it to cull a larger fry , like the inch plus Angel that had slipped through his quality control . |
| 19 | His robot companions were now to operate well away from him across a fairly large room and at key moments in the drama when there was an anticipatory silence from everyone else , he found he had the personal ‘ power ’ , and with some verbal style ( and a high degree of repressed excitement as he discovered he could be publicly effective ) he presented himself as an efficient robot controller . |
| 20 | Kettering persuaded him to come South and he helped them win the Southern League ( Eastern ) Championship in 1927–28 and 1928–29 . |
| 21 | When he moved he had the supple , easy grace of a big cat . |
| 22 | Did he consider her to have no good qualities at all , to be so scornful of her ? |
| 23 | He used it to describe the new age of Western history which , according to Toynbee , began in the 1870s with the simultaneous globalization of Western culture and the re-empowerment of non-Western states . |
| 24 | Pascoe says that he used it to put an injured dog out of his misery . |
| 25 | He wants them to scrap the minimum lending rates which are used to keep interest rates high , even though the bank base rates have fallen . |
| 26 | I 've only been there once and I thought he did n't like me much , but now he wants me to do a dozen PDs tomorrow . ’ |
| 27 | He wants me to tell the same traveller 's tales as 'im and 'is mates — the artful hound ! |
| 28 | He wants you to write the whole book here . |
| 29 | From his first appearance as the languid young aristo to his final entrance as a surgical case in a wheelchair , Rupert Everett makes the character as much Harlequin as Mephistopheles , and the magnetic allure with which he endows him balances the brittle cynicism and affectation of a man who measures every word for effect . |
| 30 | The things he says are right , and they explain his popularity , but ho he says them explains the certain wariness with which he is regarded . |