Example sentences of "he [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He slouched back in the chair , his face drawn as if he realised the mortal danger they were now in . |
| 5 | He asked the first policeman he saw the way to London University and was pointed in the direction of the Strand . |
| 6 | The interviewer hesitated , and when he asked the next question he sounded faintly embarrassed . |
| 7 | As he knows , he got the biggest majority he has ever had in his constituency against me . |
| 8 | He admitted the great debt which the country owed to Churchill for the Second World War . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | Nor could he disregard the Salic Law which forbade the accession to the throne of a woman . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He walked along the Harrow Road until he found the small turning he wanted . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He fondled the long dagger he 'd pushed through his wallet , drawing comfort from its metal coiled handle . |
| 16 | There is no reason , and he declines the verbal advice he has been given by his Inspector , so this has now become an ‘ order ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Cos he , he changed the whole pad you know . |
| 19 | he says The economic trend we 're seeing is cyclical . |
| 20 | There he played the only game he knew , dominoes . |
| 21 | " 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 . |
| 22 | In case Laing was unfamiliar with it , he told the young man what he now knew to be true . |
| 23 | He told the terrified girl he had a knife , then made her walk down a river footpath , across a bridge and into an alley . |
| 24 | He told the startled operator his ‘ wife ’ was dead and he could no longer cope . |
| 25 | As he gulped the warm champagne he swore he would never wear it again . |
| 26 | And he resurrected the symbolic pattern she had found in him , the amber , the velvet , the musk and acceptance . |
| 27 | He began to think of Julie Murchison again as he negotiated the narrow viaduct which linked the docks to Station Road . |
| 28 | He recalled the ancient baptistery which stood at the east end of the church , where the bodies of the archbishops had lain , and where the trials by ordeal had taken place . |
| 29 | He recalled the first time he had seen the impressive building as a schoolboy on a day 's outing to see the sights of London . |
| 30 | Then , during his three years in exile he came for the first time into close contact with the main exponents of the Gregorian ideal , and we must ask how far and in what circumstances he adopted the phraseology of the Gregorian reformers ; then , whether he adopted the theoretical structure which their favourite phrase libertas ecclesiae expressed , or adopted the phrase for use only in exceptional circumstances and for special reasons . |