Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being a fanatic nonsmoker and health freak , he made us enact the ritual funeral of a cigarette end . |
| 2 | She gave a similar answer when he asked her to open the automatic cash dispenser . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I think he was surprised by my reaction , so he asked me to lunch the next day . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Kettering persuaded him to come South and he helped them win the Southern League ( Eastern ) Championship in 1927–28 and 1928–29 . |
| 7 | When he moved he had the supple , easy grace of a big cat . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Carver knew for a fact that Hauser had a collection of Roosevelt film clips , that he studied them to perfect the famous American president 's mannerisms . |
| 10 | Never leaving us to feel that he has short-changed us , each observation complete in itself , as if it has been roundly considered before utterance , he manages to accommodate the following items of interest in that eighteen hundred words : a comparison between Hebridean manners of burial and Roman funeral rites ; the weather ( repeatedly ) ; the literacy of the Hebrideans ; how travellers are accommodated , there being no hotel system ; diet — wild-fowl , fish , venison , beef , mutton , goat , poultry , bread ; whisky for breakfast ( the morning dram , known as a ‘ skalk ’ ) ; the availability of tea , coffee , marmalade and other preserves , honey and cheese ; trading practices — wine from the French in exchange for wool ; culinary variety , short on vegetables other than potatoes , not good on custards ; napery , crockery and cutlery ; the abating fervour of the clans in the wake of Culloden ; and he believed he saw the slow rise of prosperity under the ‘ unpleasing consequences of subjection , . |
| 11 | The tragedy of Oedipus Rex was given archetypal significance by Freud when he claimed it encapsulated the universal unconscious wish of young boys to dispense with their fathers in order to establish an exclusive claim upon their mothers . |
| 12 | All the pictures he showed me looked the same messy blur but he insisted he could make out the individual features of each person . |
| 13 | He should not be named , but he begged me to tell the outside world of the appalling situation where the wounded are dying unnecessarily because the UN are refusing to transport the wounded out of the city . ’ |
| 14 | He encouraged them to tackle the widespread Highland areas still under survey so that maps and memoirs could be published in an organised manner . |
| 15 | He swivelled it to check the outside wall . |
| 16 | He beckoned her to do the same . |
| 17 | When he returned he joined the local carpenters ' union , and in 1861 he persuaded his Sheffield union to become part of the newly established Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners ( ASCJ ) . |
| 18 | Philip at first took no notice of what he said ; but when he heard him repeat the same thing several times , and saw he was greatly upset by the horse being sent away , eventually replied : ‘ Are you criticising those who are older than yourself , as if you knew more , and were better able to manage him than they ? ’ |
| 19 | He watched me do the second table in imitation of his manner . |
| 20 | But when he talked he looked the same as he had always done ; eager , intent , screwing up his boneless nose , gesturing with broad , stubby-fingered hands . |
| 21 | He thought he had the upper hand while she was trapped here , and he was right — it made her feel awkward and uneasy , put her at a disadvantage . |
| 22 | I asked whether he thought he had the same difficulties as his father : |
| 23 | When he turned his head it vanished , although he thought he heard the faintest of noises that might have been made by claws scrabbling on stone . |
| 24 | He thought he glimpsed the slight gleam of light on a man 's belt , somewhere towards the bottom of the vegetable patch . |
| 25 | Jack froze , not knowing what he should do , and when he looked at Steve beside him , he knew he felt the same . |
| 26 | He felt he had the upper hand for once , and they had n't been able to set up the Microwave Gun yet , either ; he felt cool and relaxed . |
| 27 | When he did they saw the dead animal and , in fury at being deprived of their sport , they ran the hermit through with their boar staves . |
| 28 | The same attitude is recognizable in the fragments of the histories of Posidonius , the pupil of Panaetius who , amidst all his philosophical work , decided to become the continuator of Polybius for the period after 146 B.C. It is uncertain whether Posidonius concluded his histories with the events of Sulla 's dictatorship or whether he extended them to include the Eastern wars of Pompey . |
| 29 | He 's an older man and maybe an easier since he had me galloping the best of my horses lame over you , Owen . |
| 30 | He said they revealed the true length of the queues . |