Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man with grey hair rose to meet him , courteously . |
| 2 | Oliver 's experience of returning to Metastasio 's original text has given him a new respect for that most maligned of operatic dramatists . |
| 3 | Whilst initially not as financially rewarding , the change in direction has brought him increasing recognition . |
| 4 | Strach has missed him overlapping too … gives him options and a bit of space to do the damage . |
| 5 | Already this freedom has benefited him , and when I know of the good I have done him , I feel that freedom is the only way to greater purity … |
| 6 | But Patrick has proved he can break away from his Mr Menacing image . |
| 7 | Fearing a wholesale decimation of its executive ranks , The Journal said , DEC tried to persuade him to stay but failed . |
| 8 | His behaviour may be such as to demonstrate that his reversion has taken him right back to the use of the ruthlessness which preceded civilisation . |
| 9 | He had the bottles placed under his bed , and when the ward sister tried to interfere he fended her off with the crook while he produced medical certificates , all signed by army doctors , stating his need for regular supplies of the stuff . |
| 10 | SUN man Paul Welford has reported him to the police , and Flashman said : ‘ If people want to do that , then fair enough . |
| 11 | Just as they appeared to be succeeding , former Mayor Dudley Aldridge has hinted he might stand as an indepedent Tory against Mr Taylor . |
| 12 | ‘ The boy 's worth a fortune to me — and now a drunken gang has lost him . |
| 13 | According to yesterday 's report , the man has decided to come forward because the gang has told him they are ending his regular cash payments , which he used to collect in London . |
| 14 | Maj Trotter has said he knew most of the walkers using his land , adding most preferred the more circuitous route alongside a beck . |
| 15 | Bearing in mind that Mr Steel probably on his own admission has said he 's been a bit late out of the starting blocks in order to make his bid for a review of the allocations , er I mean how do you feel in response to that ? |
| 16 | When William Marshal was dying a clerk tried to persuade him to sell about eighty fine robes in order to spend the money for the salvation of his soul . |
| 17 | The clerk tried to stop him going up , but according to his tale , he 'd had too much to drink . |
| 18 | When he 's with my dad , last night my dad 's , they were playing a game , she said you should 've heard him , she said laughing all , mum loves to hear him happy . |
| 19 | He also had a computer at home with simple tailor-made programmes designed to help him find and match words . |
| 20 | It may be that the curiosity of Frederick I having a red beard has caused him to remain in the popular imagination : red-headed men and women have many superstitions attached to them , particularly red-headed kings . |
| 21 | The winning issue carried an impressive number of topics from six pages of news items , to Thai Shell 's centenary and a meaty , commissioned article by political economist Susan Strange on corporate glue ; it 's the only corporate publication within the Shell group at a public level , ’ says Felton , adding that over the five years of his editorship , Shell has allowed him ‘ an awful lot of space ’ . |
| 22 | His antiquarian temperament has made him a greater snapper-up of unconsidered trifles of archaeology , architecture and literature . |
| 23 | But Mr Lawson has to show he knows how to do the trick , before he can win his argument , in theory or in the markets . |
| 24 | An upbringing designed to carry him through changes of regime and frontier , possible loss of every worldly possession , and , in the event of crisis , protracted stays with distant relatives ensconced wherever the aristocracy was tolerated , from the Polish border to Hyde Park Gate , in short , a good European background , had made him totally self-contained and able with sunny smile and the formal handshake of the gymnase to set almost anybody at their ease , even the flustered Nenna . |
| 25 | He felt hammer blows to his arm before Dean tried to stab him with a screwdriver . |
| 26 | He felt hammer blows to his arm before Dean tried to stab him with a screwdriver . |
| 27 | Slaven said : ‘ Pally has said he will kick me up in the air if he gets a chance . |
| 28 | Thomas Cromwell was offered £100 for his help in obtaining the post of justice in North Wales ; J. Lucas proposed to give him £10 for wine — literally a pourboire if appointed King 's Solicitor . |
| 29 | However , Richard Baxter had only preached in his new meeting house once , when the authorities moved to arrest him once more . |
| 30 | Instead , he ended up in charity administration , but his earlier sense of a religious vocation has left him with quite another side : a passion for Romanesque churches . |