Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made for himself a special balance with which he could measure the exact proportions of two metals in a mixture or alloy . |
| 2 | He shared with her a great many affinities and interests and returned her respect . |
| 3 | He shared with us a singular fascination for tropical waters and everything in them , and had acquired the franchise for scuba equipment for the whole of the Moluccas . |
| 4 | As he opens the door the lid snaps up and as he looks at me the social dimension locks me in its perspective . |
| 5 | Thanks to deft chairmanship and bluntness , he drew from it a respectable report that won praise for its forthrightness . |
| 6 | For Ricky Stride , association with Minton was like being in the presence of an exploding star : anything might happen , for he created around him an exciting and excitable atmosphere . |
| 7 | ‘ To be sure , the lad 's name is Gabriel , and he came to me the very day I was needing an angel . |
| 8 | He came with me the whole way of my round south of the Court . |
| 9 | In the strictness of my own father 's wisdom , he instilled into me a deep respect for the opposite sex , so that there was no physical play or caress with any women until after I had married my wife . |
| 10 | He noticed in himself a definite tendency to swagger as he walked around the camp that morning and he had tried consciously to suppress it . |
| 11 | Then as he turned towards her the overhead lights that she had switched on to look through her dresses shone directly onto his face and she noticed how pale and drawn he looked , lines that were usually unnoticeable etched between nose and mouth , eyes almost feverishly bright . |
| 12 | He turned on her a rueful expression — rueful but placating , like a boy caught out in a misdemeanour . |
| 13 | Of course , he does not care a rap whether it is true or not — but he is dreadfully afraid that by prematurely espousing it he might lose some subscribers , though he acknowledged to me the other day he thought it would be generally accepted before long . ’ |
| 14 | He withdrew from it a rare bound second volume of Palestine Illustrated by François Schotten , published in Paris in 1929 . |
| 15 | Now , adrift from home and more vulnerable than ever , he discovered in himself a remarkable gift for inspiring friendship , a gift which never left him . |
| 16 | He relied on me a great deal because he knew I always knew what to do . |
| 17 | Through my meanings , he opens to you a noble career , as my wife only can you enter upon it . |
| 18 | Section 16(2) provides : [ t ] he cases in which a pecuniary advantage … is to be regarded as obtained for a person are cases where — ( b ) he is allowed to borrow by way of overdraft , or to take out any policy of insurance or annuity contract , or obtains an improvement of the terms on which he is allowed to do so ; or |
| 19 | He wraps around himself the dusty patchwork cloak of his invisibility and the heralds gallop hither and yon in vain . |
| 20 | I dare not ask directly what is the precise matter but I see in Mr Browning 's eyes an anxiety deeper than usual and he confessed to me the other day that he fears there may be water on the lung . |
| 21 | He took with him a secret report which was leaked to the Japanese press . |
| 22 | He took with him a full train of siege artillery with sappers and engineers . |
| 23 | He too , was proud and as he looked round the crowded pews of St Christopher 's in Englefield , New Jersey , he thought of what a good turn-out it was considering that so many of them had come up from New York . |
| 24 | Full of admiration and impressed above all by the signs of Nietzsche 's originality of mind and literary power , he saw in him a new kind of worker for the cultural cause with which he identified his own ambitions : " Now you must show what philology is for , and help me bring about the grand " renaissance " … |
| 25 | He saw inside himself a yellow-hammer flying in a startled flutter from out of the spikes and small blooms of a gorse-bush . |
| 26 | Drifting into the Colonial Office because deafness prevented him from taking up a career in the regular army , he brought with him a romantic conception of empire stimulated in the first instance by Kitchener 's Omdurman campaign and encouraged with appropriate reading matter by his father . |
| 27 | Now the carriage cleaning inspector had a good job if he went about it the proper way . |
| 28 | In some frustrated way he felt in himself a deep affront at the prodigality and profuseness of life around him . |
| 29 | He gathered about him a technical staff of diverse talents , whom he inspired with an enthusiasm to give of their best . |
| 30 | By comparison with the highly organized and elaborately structured ego , Freud characterized the id as chaotic , even though in practice he attributed to it a definite and distinguishable shape . |