Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of our obtrusive entry he made us welcome , inviting us in and lighting a fire . |
| 2 | Anyway , the mosque was one of the many subjects he felt it safest to avoid until he had plucked up the courage to go into one . |
| 3 | As Creator He began it all ; as all-powerful He sustains it all ; as judge of the world He will complete it all and bring it to its consummation . |
| 4 | A LITTLE boy is becoming withdrawn because he has so many ear infections he finds it difficult to hear , but his life could be revolutionised by one simple operation . |
| 5 | In return he gave them other ground at the rear of the church and also on the right-hand side of the new road and bordering Killicomaine Road . |
| 6 | So it is a slow pitch , there 's very little pace in it for him , but it never puts him off , he still comes hurling in and er he 'll , he 'll flat out on anything , that it , we were saying some days he gets it right and others he does n't . |
| 7 | When I was writing an article on Pottz he sent me three large studio portraits : one of Potter and two of himself . |
| 8 | Having a mind untrammelled by convention he offered the names ignose or godnose , but the editor of the Biochemical Journal would not accept either of them , so because the vitamin had the same empirical formula as glycuronic acid he called it hexuronic acid , leaving its structural chemistry to be determined later . |
| 9 | One day he saw them both through the window of a hotel bar when he was sitting on a bus in Shaftesbury Avenue . |
| 10 | I treasure the photographs I took of Jack , and following its refurbishment the instrument sounds as good as the day he fashioned it all those years ago — a credit to the man and fitting epitaph to his expertise . |
| 11 | That day he found it prudent to acquire the services of one Frederick James Ratcliff , a solicitor of Blagrave Street . |
| 12 | So now I 'm trying to tell it to this pad he bought me this morning . |
| 13 | Frankie often joined his classmates in taunting them because of their poor homes or absent fathers , yet in his heart of hearts he envied them all . |
| 14 | In the quiet of his own skull he called it manly , but he would never have used such a word to her , not only because she was privately decorous but also because the way she talked about her children made him sense that she dreaded being thought lesbian . |
| 15 | By displaying a map of the area he made it easy to understand his talk and he emphasised the enormous size of Brazil . |
| 16 | I do n't mind dancing with girls when it 's for Jamie , though one time with one tall lassie he wanted us both to go outside so he could kiss her . |
| 17 | He read through his first paragraph — after years of novel-writing he found it easier to put it all in the third person . |
| 18 | Again when Pharaoh makes Joseph vizier of Egypt he gives him special clothes , as does Joseph his brothers to mark his reconciliation with them . |
| 19 | The new hero , like Don Quixote , gets it wrong by study , but unlike Quixote he gets it right ( more or less ) by living , and he characteristically needs to educate himself by life after having partly de-educated himself through books . |
| 20 | And yet was it a fact , was it the truth , or was it merely a psychological speculation which in certain moods he found it interesting to contemplate ? |
| 21 | He describes this period of work as one of , of terrible strain , it was also a period in which he was personally very unhappy , and I get the impression that he really did use the best of his mind on this problem , and that for the rest of his life he found it difficult to press his thinking home with the kind of ruthlessness that many of the problems that he then assumed required . |
| 22 | So when he was in Birmingham he bought me this house , which was going cheap , so that I could start a money-lending business here for him . |
| 23 | On the return journey he told her all about himself and he held up his left hand for her scrutiny . |
| 24 | In turn he made it clear that the directors wanted an opportunity to participate in whatever business they ended up in and that there was a realistic profits incentive . |
| 25 | But when Maxwell tried one out for size he found it impossible to squeeze in . |
| 26 | no , so he said erm , when I opened it court order , I said well I do n't know what yours is I said but it 's nothing to do with this , I said this is about that so when I opened the other one I remember then that when they originally built that court order bit he give me one cheque for sixty two quid and one for sixty nine |
| 27 | Like Sarah he found it strange at first having to change roles from competitor to coach . |
| 28 | During most of the fourteen years that he was running his restaurant he found it necessary to supplement his earnings by articles , books — heaven knows how he found the time to write them — cookery classes , lectures and the television demonstrations which were the first of their kind . |
| 29 | He has recalled drily that as a schoolboy he found it easy to get his own way . |
| 30 | Emil explained to me that on this trip the linen , cutlery and glasses had been provided by the caterers , and without more ado he showed me first , where to find everything and second , how to set a table . |