Example sentences of "he [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also nice to see him give the young girl who had drawn his winning number a £20.00 note as a way of saying thank you . |
| 2 | Louise tried to soothe him and persuade him to drink the antiseptic draught which McNab had given her . |
| 3 | They caught him unprepared , before he could blank out his mind , making him remember the last time he had heard that sort of ringing , last Sunday . |
| 4 | Around him stretches the lush plain her armies have subdued . |
| 5 | Naturally he encountered no opposition based on nationalism , but his fervent support of Islam led him to abandon the tolerant policy his predecessors had adopted towards the Hindu majority , and this probably intensified resistance to his advance . |
| 6 | Although Harry tried to be tender and attentive at first , Ann sensed from the start that he did n't really love her , and that she would never be able to make him forget the great hurt he had suffered by losing Martha . |
| 7 | Dissatisfied as he was , it was while Bishop of Bristol that he made the moral stand which guaranteed that his name would be heard for three centuries whenever Cornish men were gathered together . |
| 8 | Of course if he made the wrong decision he could pay for it by loss of his command , as we have seen , or even with his life , as happened to Timagoras , the ambassador who accepted humiliating terms at a peace conference in 367 ( Xen . |
| 9 | As a director of Routledge , he took an interest in what I was writing , and in 1946 he commissioned the first book I was to produce on philosophy , The Approach to Metaphysics . |
| 10 | He slouched back in the chair , his face drawn as if he realised the mortal danger they were now in . |
| 11 | He asked the first policeman he saw the way to London University and was pointed in the direction of the Strand . |
| 12 | The interviewer hesitated , and when he asked the next question he sounded faintly embarrassed . |
| 13 | As he knows , he got the biggest majority he has ever had in his constituency against me . |
| 14 | He admitted the great debt which the country owed to Churchill for the Second World War . |
| 15 | But he lacked the intellectual force which his mother and grandfather had , and which he needed if he was to fulfil his ambition to drag India ‘ into the 21st century ’ . |
| 16 | Nor could he disregard the Salic Law which forbade the accession to the throne of a woman . |
| 17 | For this reason , he invited the previous speaker who had first referred to the lack of education of the people of the area to spend a day or two in the area sometime to experience it first hand . |
| 18 | Before 1926 , either the debtor conveyed the legal right to a mortgagee , and retained an equitable interest — the ‘ Equity of Redemption ’ — or else he retained the legal right himself , and gave an equitable interest to the lender , as by a deposit of title-deeds . |
| 19 | He walked along the Harrow Road until he found the small turning he wanted . |
| 20 | I 'd like to remind him that 's nothing to the idiot he made of himself on All Fools Day last when he found the dead stoat I 'd placed in the pulpit . |
| 21 | He fondled the long dagger he 'd pushed through his wallet , drawing comfort from its metal coiled handle . |
| 22 | There is no reason , and he declines the verbal advice he has been given by his Inspector , so this has now become an ‘ order ’ . |
| 23 | Algy used up his measure of luck , I was then given a super navigator with only the sharpest of pencils and the instinct of a homing pigeon who took me through my tour ; he perished the first time he New without me after I was hijacked to Bennett 's staff . |
| 24 | Cos he , he changed the whole pad you know . |
| 25 | he says The economic trend we 're seeing is cyclical . |
| 26 | There he played the only game he knew , dominoes . |
| 27 | " Put him on the table please , " I said , and as he lifted the little animal I decided that I could n't let this opportunity pass . |
| 28 | In case Laing was unfamiliar with it , he told the young man what he now knew to be true . |
| 29 | He told the terrified girl he had a knife , then made her walk down a river footpath , across a bridge and into an alley . |
| 30 | He told the startled operator his ‘ wife ’ was dead and he could no longer cope . |