Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [verb] he [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edwards ' brilliant support play earned him four tries before the break and six in the second half to take his season 's tally to 15 — six ahead of Halifax centre Greg Austin . |
| 2 | The car heater kept him warmer than he had been since leaving Celia 's flat . |
| 3 | The Emmanuel College list gave him minimal information about matriculation and tripos results . |
| 4 | Did the fact that he is accompanied by a doctor on the campaign trail help to lose him last week 's TV showdown with Clinton ? |
| 5 | The tough-guy actor — filming smash hit movie Patriot Games which is released in Britain to-morrow — had to be rescued by emergency crews after a tough underwater fight scene left him exhausted and close to drowning . |
| 6 | He ‘ does n't drive much ’ : simply walking along the local village road gives him enough of the excitement of modern transport . |
| 7 | Father Reynard too began a prayer and was half-way through it when the crossbow quarrel hit him full in the chest , ripping open skin , bone and muscle . |
| 8 | The Time-CNN poll gave him 33 per cent support , compared with 28 per cent for Bush and 24 per cent for Clinton . |
| 9 | He had to be patient , but his wish finally came true last year , when at the age of 40 , his work as a sports photographer brought him face-to-face with the biggest desert of them all — the awe-inspiring Sahara . |
| 10 | The job search took him seven years , and by that time he was ripe for retirement . |
| 11 | As his mind wanders guiltily over the past and longingly towards a future which even he now realises can never be , the Passacaglia motif anchors him more and more inescapably in the present , with the posse of Borough vigilantes coming nearer and nearer . |
| 12 | And there were others less distinguished , perhaps , but whose lively presence made any visit memorable ; for instance , Mr Wilkinson , valet-butler to Mr John Campbell , with his well-known repertoire of impersonations of prominent gentlemen ; Mr Davidson from Easterly House , whose passion in debating a point could at times be as alarming to a stranger as his simple kindness at all other times was endearing ; Mr Herman , valet to Mr John Henry peters , whose extreme views no one could listen to passively , but whose distinctive belly-laugh and Yorkshire charm made him impossible to dislike . |
| 13 | But the fact that he had won a signal victory over the headmaster on Monday night made him reluctant to pit himself against him again so soon . |
| 14 | A four under par round left him equal with John Blackmore from Felixstowe Golf Centre . |
| 15 | Merseyside has a weary scepticism about grand planning gestures , but Broome 's Alton Towers vision makes him impossible to ignore . |
| 16 | A knowledge of appropriate theory and the techniques of curriculum development gives him certain tools to work with . |
| 17 | Adrenalin withdrawal made him introspective and sleepy . |
| 18 | Kenneth Andrew Sanderson , of Wallace Avenue , Huyton , was sentenced in January 1991 after a Southampton Crown Court jury found him guilty of the two robberies for each of which he received seven years , concurrent ; he got six months concurrent for an admitted burglary . |
| 19 | Garth , who also strokes the crew , is a former lightweight international and is returning to the form he showed before a back injury sidelined him last year . |
| 20 | With Sycorax on her back , Ariel dropped on to her haunches and took up her baby and tied him in a cloth to her breast ; she rubbed his mouth with soursop juice to keep him dry so that he would not howl with discomfort to be changed ( she packed soft moss against his bottom , just to be sure ) ; then she took a basket of her herbs and preparations and whistled softly to Paca , the last of her caveys , to follow . |
| 21 | He never left the centre circle but the People reporter gave him nine out of ten and he deserved it . ’ |
| 22 | In recognition of his eminence within the trade , the Levant Company elected him assistant in 1653 , a post which he held until 1670 , except for a brief stint as deputy governor in 1661 . |
| 23 | Occasionally his job as a private insurance investigator allowed him this privilege but there were occasions which called for him to dress more formally . |
| 24 | In 1723 , for example , Colonel John Campbell wrote to a Dunbartonshire laird to warn him that |
| 25 | The love affair gave him new life , he looked better , drank less and stayed away from the cafés . |
| 26 | Parliament also passed a decree on state power giving him ultimate executive power , in conjunction with the Cabinet of ministers , with parliament as the republic 's supreme executive body . |
| 27 | ARRANGED for £96,000 of union cash to be paid into his pension pot to give him inflation-proofing and a two-thirds pension on his final £55,000 salary . |
| 28 | A NURSE awarded £11,000 after a health authority sacked him last night repeated his ‘ whistleblowing ’ claims that elderly patients were being left to die alone . |
| 29 | Now Chris fully expects an VW enthusiast to offer him thousands . |
| 30 | As the years passed , I would watch his passion for adhering to the bedu principle remove him further and further from the society around him . |