Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [verb] he [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Lincoln University awarded him an Honorary Doctorate ( 1951 ) his delight was obvious . |
| 2 | Very few people took Gedge 's humour the wrong way , but on one of those occasions an NME reviewer labelled him a ‘ gawky , arrogant mighty mouth . ’ |
| 3 | Even though Common had returned to the team for the last month of the previous season and kept them up when relegation seemed inevitable , the club chairman offered him a free transfer providing he did n't claim the £250 benefit money promised to him earlier . |
| 4 | So it was a stroke of luck when a friend scrapping an old Volvo car gave him a complete system to fit to his tractor . |
| 5 | His regular drawing practice gave him a solid understanding of the structure of the human head and hands , and he is unique amongst 18th century British painters for his custom of making detailed preparatory drawings for his portraits . |
| 6 | His cheesecutter hat and Burberry overcoat gave him the look of a working class spiv . |
| 7 | KEITH RAMSEY 'S match-winning shot for Manchester Giants in the 105-104 victory over Sunderland 76ers on Tuesday night made him the toast of the Stretford Sports Centre , particularly as all of their supporters had been confined to the bar . |
| 8 | He expanded this idea at his next job interview , and finally his obsession with debt paid off : the aid agency offered him a position . |
| 9 | His golfing prowess earned him a series of length golfing tuition articles in the Standard . |
| 10 | A search party found him the next day , dead from exposure . |
| 11 | Being signed by Hampshire as replacement for Andy Roberts just a few months after his Test debut gave him the chance to impress Clive Lloyd in county matches and in 1982 he really came good with 134 wickets , the best season 's haul since the reduction in championship matches in 1969 . |
| 12 | Aberdeen University awarded him an honorary DD in 1895 . |
| 13 | He was , he told Greta Burkill , intent on persuading the Cambridge University recruiting board to offer him a place on an officer training course . |
| 14 | We found him seated on a particularly high section of wall sketching the decoration of an inner chamber , and when I climbed up beside him I noticed his vantage point gave him a clear view of the Toyota . |
| 15 | When his home town made him an ‘ honoured citizen ’ some years ago , he reminded friends that ‘ they used to fling me in jail ’ . |
| 16 | Johnny Dawes had a whipround in the pub as a sort of True Path benefit gig to give him a few days more . |
| 17 | The famous ‘ twinkle ’ in his eye and the firm yet non-interventionist finger he kept on the pulse of hall life made him a fair but firm warden at all times . |
| 18 | ALEX FERGUSON revealed yesterday how he tried to sign Mick Harford just before the transfer deadline to win him the title last season . |
| 19 | you were n't in and I could n't , I could n't find telephone number to give him a ring , I 've just got , I 've just got through to Directory Enquiries , got the number , just gon na dial it and gran says Annette 's home . |
| 20 | Norman 's seven-birdie course record gave him a one-shot lead playing the 18th , but he should have known his chance had gone with Faldo having won two Augusta titles in extra time . |
| 21 | This seems to have been an important period for Williams , for his lecture programme gave him the opportunity to broaden his contacts . |
| 22 | He believed Orkney Islands Council found him an annoyance . |
| 23 | The Williams team gave him a quick change of tyres … but not quick enough to prevent Patrase and Senna fly past into the lead . |
| 24 | His only blemish on the front nine was at the second hole dropping shots at 14 and 15 brought it to four under but a good birdie at 16 and a level par finish gave him a 66 and the course record by two shots . |
| 25 | Players who visited him during his final days in the Walton Centre gave him an Everton shirt which was later buried with him . |
| 26 | Lack of sleep , food bolted too quickly , the heat and the night jogging gave him a dark-eyed expression of endurance . |
| 27 | If someone other than the buyer was injured by the goods , the Sale of Goods Act gives him no rights . |
| 28 | But no matter how much he twisted and turned , the Liverpool dynamo gave him no rest . |
| 29 | This newspaper business bothers him a lot and he spoke with force . |
| 30 | A Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society , Paul Damari has 25 years experience of the weather business , and his down-to-earth , common-sense approach makes him a welcome change to the distant and expensive alternative , the Met Office . |