Example sentences of "[noun pl] he [verb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In June 1933 Edward gave a birthday party for Wallis , and during the next few months he visited the Simpsons ' flat in London almost every day . |
| 2 | But to be sorry for him would be a mistake : he lived his life to the full , and in all his deeds he enriched the lives of others . |
| 3 | Newspaper accounts of open-cast coal workings led him to Cowdenbeath in Fife and after several visits he found the remains he was locking for . |
| 4 | But after a few days he saw the sparks of it begin to reappear and within a week Mould was chattering away as usual and ran about the school thinking of a new plan . |
| 5 | After several years he displayed the results in London in 1804 but said himself that the calves at one month old were ‘ as fat as quails ’ , though he declared that in due course the hide , flesh , milk and tallow would be of superior quality and value . |
| 6 | In academic terms he sensed the changes in the wind so well that he knew exactly when to stop dropping the name Marcuse and start dropping the name Goldmann , when to switch from expressing genuine enthusiasm for Black Studies to expressing genuine enthusiasm for women 's literature . |
| 7 | Yartek himself is now the Keeper and by various threats and deceptions he prises the keys from them . |
| 8 | In both these cases he rejects the ties of family . |
| 9 | Between clenched teeth he quoted the words of the nineteenth century poet Phan Van Tri . |
| 10 | Probing with his narrow hands he located the organs he sought , and , using another slender knife , dislodged and withdrew them , handing them to his assistant , who placed them in bronze trays and took them to another table where he covered them with natron salt , to dry and preserve them ready for the four jars which would stand in a chest at the head of the coffin . |
| 11 | About 1202 the canonist Robert de Courcon cited him as a man ‘ who became immensely rich through lending money to innumerable merchants throughout the world ’ , objecting that in his partnerships he shared the profits but kept the capital safe . |
| 12 | Smith told police he thought the girls had already jumped from the bay when he , Harper and Winter had run off . |
| 13 | Boris Pintar , 44 , told police he found the shells over the years while tilling near Gorizia , Italy . |
| 14 | At seaside venues he visited the funfairs where he won all manner of prizes . |
| 15 | By citizens and burgesses he meant the freemen of corporate towns , taking it for granted that his readers would understand that this privilege had in practice come to be restricted to the richer inhabitants — merchants , not working craftsmen . |
| 16 | With his own modest roots he dismisses the attacks on a class-based judiciary : ‘ The youngsters believe that we come from a narrow background — it 's all nonsense — they get it from that man Griffith . ’ |
| 17 | From these gains he bought the manors of Rye in Hertfordshire and of Emneth , near Wisbech , and indulged in substantial building and repairs there . |
| 18 | Almost inevitably there are entries where others will find it hard to agree with his conclusions , and on a number of occasions he leaves the questions of date and attribution open . |