Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The door was held open for him , and he threaded his way through all the backstage equipment .
2 He made her laugh at those dinner parties and other gatherings where they had been together .
3 None the less , it was in London that he made his will on 8 April 1416 , characteristically dedicated to his kin , staff , and domestic servants .
4 Hammond was clearly in very poor health when he made his will in 1657 , dying the next year , not long before the protector , his old colleague and then commander .
5 Goodwin 's successor at two removes , was still his ‘ deare Pastor ’ when he made his will in 1682 ; it also named John Owen [ q.v . ] .
6 England have been waiting for Chris Lewis to establish himself as a genuine allrounder since he made his debut in 1990 .
7 But Jones decided to turn down his old Wimbledon club , where he made his name as one of the Crazy Gang .
8 He made his début in 1905 versus the touring Australians , and then played first in the county championship in 1906 .
9 He made his recordings in 1904 and died a year later ; by 1925 they had been moved to the ‘ Historic Catalogue ’ .
10 He lowered his tone in merry complicity .
11 Given the Government 's stress on education selectivity and exclusivity in the national curriculum and in the league tests , did the Secretary of State insist on a special emphasis on educational special needs when he commissioned his report into primary education last week ?
12 He succeeded his father on 16 August 1549 , taking up thereby his first office , that of alnager of Surrey and Sussex .
13 He reported that women , when asked by the researcher to assess the standardness of their own speech , tended to overestimate their use of prestige forms ( he checked their assessments against taped samples of their actual talk ) .
14 If he records his findings at each visit to a given process and plots them on a graph a tendency to drift can be detected .
15 If he records his findings at each visit to a given process and plots them on a graph a tendency to drift can be detected .
16 In American Notes he records his impressions of several US prisons including the Boston House of Correction , The Tombs ( New York ) , the Eastern Penitentiary ( Philadelphia ) , and the Maryland State Penitentiary ( AN 3 , 6 , 9 ) .
17 He enveloped her mouth in one last , languid taking , then rolled on to the pillow beside her .
18 He divided his career into two phases , Autrefois ( Before ) and Aujourd'hui ( Today ) ; the dividing line was Villequier .
19 He divided his force into three , one division under Fraser to sack the village and set it on fire ; one under the Border chiefs to round up all the cattle and stock they could find in the vicinity — they were the experts at this ; and his own grouping to encircle the castle and at least present Dacre and Balliol with a challenge .
20 When Clovis died he divided his kingdom into four .
21 He threads his way through narrow alleys where the sun never penetrates .
22 As the Nazi threat increased , he planned his departure with great care .
23 In 1954 he bought , with Lionel Barber , 75 per cent of Holder 's Investment Trust , to which he sold his interests between 1955 and 1961 for over £5 million .
24 He went and he sold his footage to all three networks , NBC , ABC , CBS for $10,000 each .
25 He sold his commission in 1856 and bought 18 Clarges Street .
26 No , what he was saying was see he sold his house for two hundred and thirty thousand I think he said .
27 The total cost of the expedition had come to roughly £2,00 — half of which Gould was to recoup less than seven years later when he sold his collection of Australian birds for £1,000 .
28 When he sold his stations in 1985 , he got $2bn — 15 times the cash flow of the stations , rather than the usual multiple of nine to 11 .
29 He compressed his lips in silent offence .
30 He met his wife of 61 years on board a train on his way to work in 1921 .
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