Example sentences of "[verb] he [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The very reason she had always forbidden him to bring a refrigerator into the house was this fear that , because she was old and no longer so quick of eye and nimble of hand and foot , it might defeat her . |
| 2 | But 35 per cent of all voters want him to do a deal with the Liberal Democrats , including a pledge for electoral reform . |
| 3 | I want him to buy a car but |
| 4 | On the one hand , two fans from a papermill implore him to become a dissident figurehead : on the other hand , two state policmen want him to sign a document denying authorship of the original article . |
| 5 | Karadzic , apparently encouraged by the new international policy announced in Washington , not only invited Bosnian Muslim and Croat leaders to meet him to discuss a settlement but he also challenged the Muslims to a soccer match . |
| 6 | He had first met her in 1938 , when she invited him to give a reading at the Student Movement House of which she was Warden . |
| 7 | They invited him to have a go . |
| 8 | Nor must this emphasis on the proprietary and financial aspects of a shareholder 's rights obscure the important fact that his shareholding causes him to become a member of an association , normally with rights to take part in its deliberation by attending and voting at its general meetings . |
| 9 | He tended to come behind the bit , so I wanted a fixed bit to encourage him to take a contact rather than a loose ring one . |
| 10 | I was appalled to find him investing a portion of our diminutive budget in some sixty bowls . |
| 11 | In July he was in a nursing home where Rupert Hart-Davis found him reading a detective story and studying a Penguin book of crossword puzzles — he was " in excellent spirits but his breathing was bad " . |
| 12 | 1926–27 found him hawking a play round London offices with no potential takers . |
| 13 | Elizabeth had let him wear a gold chain of hers round his neck . |
| 14 | ‘ He would say she had never even let him buy a sock , before . |
| 15 | Out of the kindness of his heart he had let him have a job in his shoe repair shop . |
| 16 | She let him suffer a bit longer , then said : ‘ You and Sabine had a row , I heard it . |
| 17 | He is still very young and has only played for one season ( Wilko let him do a degree first , a 1st in chemisty ) . |
| 18 | The child of seven who can read fluently will not be held back so that an identical level of attainment can be achieved by all : the slow learner will not become the victim of a system which challenges him to achieve a goal which is unattainable . |
| 19 | An example of the former came from Continental FC 's captain Barry Dennis , who , having left school , went to college where he gained a Full Technological Certificate enabling him to take a position in the computer industry . |
| 20 | It was n't as though she 'd expected him to wear a City suit . |
| 21 | She had expected him to get a water-taxi , but he turned right and walked along the fondamenta , matching his stride to her slower pace . |
| 22 | ‘ You would n't have expected him to become a writer ? ’ |
| 23 | I remember before he became Prime Minister he was in charge of the Conservative re-think where I helped him do a lot of that work and I think he enjoyed that very much . |
| 24 | He was only interested in making recordings and he had a legal base in Switzerland , which also helped him avoid a lot of problems . |
| 25 | The direction of his career , however , was finally determined by Sonia Orwell who helped him obtain a job with the World Bank in Washington . |
| 26 | He has not only tarnished his relationship with Leeds United Football Club ( the club that he owes everything to including his 2.75M price tag ) , he also shit on the manager and those players who are left at the club , who helped him win a championship medal . |
| 27 | I would hope , obviously , that I wrote poems that could sometimes speak to the reader 's condition , and it would be too grandiose to say helped him to sort out his own feelings , but at least helped him to get a feeling of recognition and , if the poem is successful , you know , some kind of satisfaction that the feeling has been turned into that permanent form . |
| 28 | It was Charlie 's worst nightmare , he had to go through the public humiliation of denying he had a drink problem and retreated from the court saying , ‘ I 've been found guilty so there 's nothing anyone can do . |
| 29 | But six years after qualifying he became a partner in Price Waterhouse and somehow never quite got into the pure consultancy side . |
| 30 | But , he was horri the guy that was doing me did n't know he had a pair of a like off er yeah . |