Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] he the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was running short of petrol and that route offered him the chance to capture replenishments along the way . |
| 2 | His blade lent him power beyond mortal reckoning ; the eternal flame gave him the strength to use it . |
| 3 | Haslam believes this experience taught him the need to recognise that many products follow a predictable life cycle . |
| 4 | East Germany 's ringing endorsement of his plan for speedy German unity makes him the strongest contender to lead the strongest power in non-communist Europe . |
| 5 | It was only when the high priest asked him the direct question : |
| 6 | When he was at school another boy told him the Chinese see a rabbit in the moon . |
| 7 | He had been angered by her obvious , if unspoken , suspicion that he had persuaded the old lady to leave him the half share of the house . |
| 8 | This business gave him the time and money to pursue his hobby of microscopy to a highly professional level . |
| 9 | The fiasco started when a letter was delivered to his home in Barnet , Herts , earlier this week informing him the £9.41 cheque would not be honoured . |
| 10 | He was the kind of man who looked magnificent in any uniform ; Hollywood 's British Colony gave him the airs to match his looks . |
| 11 | Of course ! she could see it all now : Luke had suggested this date to give him the opportunity to warn her off Rob ! |
| 12 | ‘ That lady tamed him the first time he set eyes on her . |
| 13 | An administrative receiver might be considered to be the agent of those who appointed him but this is not the case ; section 44 of the 1986 Act makes him the agent of the company . |
| 14 | Although Daniel 's dark skin offers him the same protection as a mild sunscreen , it 's not enough to block all the sun 's harmful UV rays . |
| 15 | And personal poetry gave him the icks He could n't |
| 16 | Erm so we then moved back towards the doorway erm and then P C requested the persons in the bed to tell him where the light switch was , which a male voice told him the approximate area where the light switch was . |
| 17 | One would expect such energy to earn him the approval of the Nazarean hierarchy in Jerusalem . |
| 18 | She was unsure now why she had decided to let him go on believing that , and she felt torn by a sudden desire to tell him the truth . |
| 19 | RONALD REAGAN 'S ability to escape blame for his frequent lapses from even basic competence earned him the nickname ‘ the Teflon President ’ . |
| 20 | If he is n't , it does n't matter what he knows and he can go over my head any day he likes and make the Assistant Commissioner read him the whole report if he wants to . |
| 21 | W. G. Collingwood describes one of these men Balthazar Puchberger , ( altered in course of time to Puthparker ) whose shaggy or tousled head earned him the nickname of Towsie . |
| 22 | William Rees-Davies : Jan 8 , aged 75 : An MP whose habit of sweeping through the Commons corridors in a black cloak earned him the nickname Dracula . |
| 23 | Not sure whether this was a good move giving him the job . |
| 24 | Blackwell had already been in touch with William Penn [ q.v. ] , when the Quaker proprietor offered him the deputy governorship of the infant colony of Pennsylvania , in a desperate attempt to reassert his authority over the resident Quaker oligarchy based in Philadelphia . |
| 25 | You 'll have to take a good swim to find him the night , over to Holland , I 'd say . |
| 26 | His extrovert personality made him the ideal host at the company 's restaurants . |
| 27 | If asked to ‘ zip me up ’ by a drysuit diver , why is it a good idea to offer him the loop of the closed zip afterwards ? |
| 28 | I decided it was a good time to ask him the final questions about Stapleton and the hound . |
| 29 | Botica 's scintillating running earned him the Man of the Match Award and he ended with a points haul of 18 with seven goals and a try when he swooped and fly-kicked on a wayward Northern pass which had gone to ground 40 yards out . |
| 30 | Kathleen Claar , custodian of the Last Indian Raid Museum in Oberlin , Kansas , took him to a small cemetery to show him the grave of her husband and of Rick Read , the last man lynched in the state . |