Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] and [verb] he " in BNC.

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1 His story was that he had collapsed with exhaustion and thirst when a passing American schooner had seen his distress signals and taken him aboard .
2 When he had fallen asleep , Aurangzeb quietly chained up his brother in silver fetters and sent him off to Delhi in a covered elephant howdah .
3 Betjeman appeared in a pair of eccentric bedroom slippers and said he hoped I did n't mind them as he had a blister .
4 Thinking about this one morning in 1954 , I went along to the keeper of the laboratory chemical stores and asked him for something which was water-soluble and formed needle crystals .
5 Franca had indeed had those fantasies , and continued to have them , of how she would kill her husband , smashing his head with a hammer , plunging a carving knife into his side , drugging him with sleeping pills and suffocating him .
6 On arrival , Radfoot drugs and robs him , then is himself murdered .
7 Then , with a shrug , she opened one of the cubicle doors and ushered him inside .
8 I saw George outside under the station lights and watched him set off towards the rear of the train .
9 The England international 's wonder strike against Pescara earlier this month has just been voted goal of the season so far by top TV station RAI and earned him £9,000 , which he has donated to a charity helping Brazilian schoolchildren .
10 First of all I think we have worked out the importance of establishing a very good relationship with the media and that 's developing and that means that , that the views of the trade union movement are beginning to be heard , er , when we , when we spoke to the editor of the local paper for example , we pointed out that on the business page there 's nothing about trade unions and did he think that business er existed without er on , just on one side .
11 ‘ I put on my hazard lights and waved him to stop , ’ said Mr Beard .
12 Anyway , there he was , the subject of the company , everybody around his villages loves and respects him , and his wife also talked about how loved he was .
13 When Clark had to hire someone to become chief executive of the new regulatory authority , the Treasury gave him a list of nine admirals , seventeen generals and six air marshals and told him they 'd be disappointed if he did n't find the right chap among them .
14 His patron , usually the local landowner , can acquire the necessary application forms and show him what to do with them .
15 Nazie , now of 155 Maxwell Drive , Pollokshields , and Ali , now of 2 Redhills , Lennoxtown , struck Mr McCallum , of 16 James Gray Street , Pollokshields , Glasgow , with hockey sticks and killed him in nearby Nithsdale Road on 6 August , 1991 .
16 At quarter to eleven her old friend Jerry , the Valium addict , wandered in complaining of stomach pains and said he 'd taken another overdose .
17 Anticipating his future power unit needs and helping him to achieve them is the key to tomorrow 's survival in OEM industries hard pressed by recession and overseas competition .
18 Although Edwards has not dismissed the threat of legal action from v , d ) , D customers and admits he is worried , he argued it is a risk which must be run .
19 He cleared the breakfast things and left him with the small addressed postcard that he had been provided with to write a message on for his mother .
20 Even in the last of the great satires , The Loved One , about California burial customs , Waugh had to watch his step because he was relying so heavily on dollars to pay the school fees and keep him in booze .
21 Any action on the part of a religious or other teacher which undermines an individual 's awareness of his personal and family duties and leaves him with the means to claim that a ‘ god ’ will relieve him of them , is an action which is utterly irresponsible .
22 They simply opened the prison gates and let him walk out .
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