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

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1 Sadly he rejected this dual instruction and was lost on a low-level marking attack that , had Cochrane been aware that Gibson was not checked out at Warboys , his AOC would have forbidden him to fly that night .
2 I want him to investigate that vent for any sign that someone might have used it to escape . ’
3 When W. H. Auden once found him playing that game and asked him why he seemed to relish it , he reflected gravely and then replied , " Well , I suppose it 's the nearest thing to being dead " .
4 Has he made that statement in public ? , because his public statement says does not
5 Has he left that job ?
6 But in August , as the selectors were putting together their plans for the winter , I started saying to Gatt : ‘ Why the bloody hell has he got that end , I want it . ’
7 Has he got that thing going ?
8 The attorney agreed with Haydon about the injustice of the proceedings , and told him to return that evening to settle the matter finally .
9 " Funny , being a bird-watcher , " a boy called Cosgrave had once said and Stephen had made him take that back , twisting his arm until he agreed to .
10 She had been aching for him since she had first seen him straddling that bike with such lazy arrogance .
11 I let him sleep that night — and succeeding nights — with Montaine … .
12 If , however , he believes in the right to a free and independent trade union , let him grant that right to the employees at the Government communications headquarters , who have been denied it for the past eight years .
13 I let him have that bike . ’
14 Adrian Jones , who studied for a number of years at Parnham House , has made a similar cabinet , and in the September issue he displays that piece and talks bout his work as a successful furniture-maker .
15 It seemed he heard that question again , a thousand years ago and in another world .
16 I can remember him doing that way back , when he was this age .
17 She said she 'd got him to agree that day and it was no use arguing because it was her price for keeping her promise to be silent about her work on the other paintings . ’
18 Twenty nine thousand he reckons he sold that plot for .
19 If at the time the issue arises the patient still has capacity to decide , they can not only explore the scope of his decision with the patient , but can seek to persuade him to alter that decision .
20 She might secretly find this tall , elegant man extremely disturbing , but she was n't prepared to let him guess that fact .
21 Can you ask him how much that van he had you know he hired that van with
22 we used to have a boat as well and then when er , when his erm mind er , well brain self started , you know he had that Alzheimer 's disease
23 Then it gives me great pleasure now to erm I always knew that John al , has had something different from the rest of us you know he has that kind of air does n't he , that that status in the pulpit which you know , ?
24 I 'll bet he drives that Mercedes parked up in the lot .
25 But the demon which had driven him to drink that night , after months of abstinence , had him in its thrall .
26 We watched him creating that knitting , talking about colour and going round and looking at the things which had inspired his imagination in his designing .
27 At midnight , David kissed her gently and left shortly afterwards , saying he hoped that snow had n't blocked the roads .
28 Suppose he notes that Elmer is likely to use the inheritance in ways that will benefit the community more than any use Goneril and Regan are likely to make of it .
29 She had heard him use that tone of voice in the past and knew exactly what it meant .
30 What I want is to see him win that second gold and wear the flag again — while the Yanks stand fuming .
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