Example sentences of "[verb] he [vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How did you know he knew the owner ? ’ |
| 2 | Although she did n't know he played the drums at all , |
| 3 | Oh dear , he was what would you say , I do n't know He liked the kind of ballads , er he was a more a kind of bay he liked a ballad , so I really could n't tell you who was his favourite singer or anything like that , just if a song interested him he just |
| 4 | ‘ How do you know he found the body ? |
| 5 | Pity he lopped the fringe for the rangers match , maybe it would have filtered out the floodlights a bit better |
| 6 | Pity he chose the Army . |
| 7 | I expect he robbed the crown jewels ! ’ |
| 8 | Mike 's boss , Max Smith , 53 , said : ‘ Even though he was trapped he finished the job . ’ |
| 9 | built it and he built he had the Kirkwall Hotel , the Stenness Hotel and the Stromness Hotel and an hotel in in Shetland . |
| 10 | Mr Tweddle said the driver parked while his wife went into a shop and when he saw her returning he started the car and reversed . |
| 11 | After this episode I stopped telephoning him , only to find he enjoyed the game so much that he began calling me . " |
| 12 | In the excitement of his new job and other things that were happening he pushed the thought of Chris to the back of his mind until he realised that Maureen looked red-eyed and unhappy . |
| 13 | As soon as he realised what was happening he put the pressure on , and was closing with them when he saw another assault boat . |
| 14 | When the lifeboat approached he refused the rescue crew 's assistance so helmsman Mike Picknett called the police . |
| 15 | As he swam he dreamed the Whale calm , asking the great creature politely for its cooperation in garnering that which his village needed . |
| 16 | In a wide-ranging foreign affairs debate he reaffirmed the Government 's ‘ total rejection of the Khmer Rouge ’ and announced humanitarian aid for Cambodia and a visit by British officials to Phnom Penh . |
| 17 | And , er , and my father actually looked up the year before and found he knew the S H M , an old school chum , and he sent us a ticket . |
| 18 | Strolling rather than walking he reached the point where the footpath to Trebyan left the road ; it was by no means obvious unless one was looking for it : a ditch , a screen of willows , and a stile all but covered with ivy . |
| 19 | He struggled to his knees , but the menace of the leering faces surrounding rounding him drained the strength from his limbs , so that when he tried to draw the bow across the strings the result was a tuneless scratch . |
| 20 | He shuffled around the lower reaches of the ATP Tour 's top 100 , consistently breaking the hearts of those who believed he had the potential to hit the big-time . |
| 21 | By the use of these three methods Morgan believed he had the means with which to discover the history of marriage in human societies . |
| 22 | He says he meant the remark only as an expression of affection . |
| 23 | Mr Carter , who is business development manager at ICI Billingham , says he knew the instant it was described to him over the phone that the property was just what they were looking for . |
| 24 | Alexei Campbell says he knew the plane was in trouble : |
| 25 | Despite a slump in the company 's margins , Bear Stearns & Co. raised its investment rating of Apple Computer Inc to ‘ strong buy ’ from ‘ buy ’ following the company 's fiscal second-quarter earnings report — figures , page five : analyst Andy Neff says he made the change because concern about Apple 's results was overdone ; commenting on the figures , Apple says it expects to resume growth — in earnings , revenue , unit sales , and market share — in the second half of its fiscal year , saying that the fall in profit was down to pricing pressures , the costs of new product launches , and a constraint in supplies needed for manufacturing , the latter two drains being short-term ; he noted that despite supply constraints , second quarter unit growth was up over 70% in its Powerbook notebook computers , while total Macintosh unit growth was up over 385 ; the European market continues to be slow , but sales in Japan are leading the way for continued growth of the Apple Pacific business unit ; gross margin was 38.5% of net sales in the second quarter of fiscal 1993 , down from 44.0% a year ago . |
| 26 | ‘ Says he took the money off Hatton 's corpse . |
| 27 | He says he thought the passenger was then going to hit him so then he hit him first and er I think |
| 28 | Only 1 man in 4 says he enjoyed the experience a lot . |
| 29 | He says he grabed the children and put them in the car . |
| 30 | He says he signed the band because of their clear musical vision but already hints at wanting to change it . |