Example sentences of "he [verb] [indef pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He was a short , precise man with a small moustache which reminded me a little of Hitler 's , but he had none of the German leader 's belligerence . |
| 32 | Whatever authority it had , came not from the power of the speaker — he had none in the conventional sense — but from the cogency and relevance of what he said and the hope it inspired . |
| 33 | Ward must have been thinking along the same lines , for as the road flattened out and the mist began to glimmer with a strange brightness , he said something about the Promised Land . |
| 34 | He said nothing of the Soviet plan . |
| 35 | He said everyone in the front trenches was splashed with blood from the German trenches . |
| 36 | He said anyone in the infected zone was severely restricted on the movement of pigs regardless of whether their animals had the disease . |
| 37 | He said anyone in the infected zone was severely restricted on the movement of pigs regardless of whether their animals had the disease . |
| 38 | If he resembles anyone from the less-than-hallowed history of TV light entertainment , it 's Dick Emery , with his gaggle of thumb-nail stereotypes and music hall turns . |
| 39 | Interestingly , during the same conversation , discussion switches to Merseyside , when Hounam makes it quite clear he believes someone in the Conservative government has intervened to prevent an investigation into a serious instance of corruption . |
| 40 | But he had none of the grandiloquence of Vasco Núñez ; he uttered none of the proud formulae Balboa had uttered in the Gulf of San Migud . |