Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] he [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though Common had returned to the team for the last month of the previous season and kept them up when relegation seemed inevitable , the club chairman offered him a free transfer providing he did n't claim the £250 benefit money promised to him earlier . |
| 2 | His regular drawing practice gave him a solid understanding of the structure of the human head and hands , and he is unique amongst 18th century British painters for his custom of making detailed preparatory drawings for his portraits . |
| 3 | He expanded this idea at his next job interview , and finally his obsession with debt paid off : the aid agency offered him a position . |
| 4 | His golfing prowess earned him a series of length golfing tuition articles in the Standard . |
| 5 | A search party found him the next day , dead from exposure . |
| 6 | Being signed by Hampshire as replacement for Andy Roberts just a few months after his Test debut gave him the chance to impress Clive Lloyd in county matches and in 1982 he really came good with 134 wickets , the best season 's haul since the reduction in championship matches in 1969 . |
| 7 | He was , he told Greta Burkill , intent on persuading the Cambridge University recruiting board to offer him a place on an officer training course . |
| 8 | We found him seated on a particularly high section of wall sketching the decoration of an inner chamber , and when I climbed up beside him I noticed his vantage point gave him a clear view of the Toyota . |
| 9 | When his home town made him an ‘ honoured citizen ’ some years ago , he reminded friends that ‘ they used to fling me in jail ’ . |
| 10 | Johnny Dawes had a whipround in the pub as a sort of True Path benefit gig to give him a few days more . |
| 11 | The famous ‘ twinkle ’ in his eye and the firm yet non-interventionist finger he kept on the pulse of hall life made him a fair but firm warden at all times . |
| 12 | ALEX FERGUSON revealed yesterday how he tried to sign Mick Harford just before the transfer deadline to win him the title last season . |
| 13 | you were n't in and I could n't , I could n't find telephone number to give him a ring , I 've just got , I 've just got through to Directory Enquiries , got the number , just gon na dial it and gran says Annette 's home . |
| 14 | Norman 's seven-birdie course record gave him a one-shot lead playing the 18th , but he should have known his chance had gone with Faldo having won two Augusta titles in extra time . |
| 15 | This seems to have been an important period for Williams , for his lecture programme gave him the opportunity to broaden his contacts . |
| 16 | His only blemish on the front nine was at the second hole dropping shots at 14 and 15 brought it to four under but a good birdie at 16 and a level par finish gave him a 66 and the course record by two shots . |
| 17 | Lack of sleep , food bolted too quickly , the heat and the night jogging gave him a dark-eyed expression of endurance . |
| 18 | This newspaper business bothers him a lot and he spoke with force . |
| 19 | A Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society , Paul Damari has 25 years experience of the weather business , and his down-to-earth , common-sense approach makes him a welcome change to the distant and expensive alternative , the Met Office . |
| 20 | The tiny movements of the wherry and the gentle , muted river sounds which came to him through the warm night air gave him no relief . |
| 21 | But can the verification principle give him the right to do this , when those who take a different view from him feel entitled to claim that they are abiding by that principle ? |
| 22 | His $95,000 runner-up cheque gave him a clear $25,000 margin over Greg Norman . |
| 23 | Denis Healey himself , a long-established whipping boy , now became almost popular , with his chairmanship of the International Monetary Fund inner steering committee making him a figure of greater eminence . |
| 24 | Earlier this week conference sent him a get well card … today the message was we miss you . |
| 25 | He loved his ‘ Jocks ’ without a trace of condescension , and when he took over the regiment as lieutenant-colonel in North Africa and Italy , his double-barrelled beer name earned him the affectionate sobriquet of ‘ Colonel Screwtop ’ . |
| 26 | His thoughts were brought back to the present when Nanny Fanny gave him a sandwich of buttered bread thickly spread with strawberry jam . |
| 27 | His experience in student television earned him an interview at BBC Scotland , ( ‘ A disaster . |
| 28 | The overall four-match title , run on section points , went to Steve Cooper ( Anglers Choice ) for the second year as three wins plus a runner-up placing gave him an outstanding victory accruing 39 points from a maximum 40 . |
| 29 | A shrill bleep from the missile detection system gave him a brief forewarning that his aircraft was being scanned by radar tracking devices . |
| 30 | But Mr Clinton still warned his supporters against over-confidence as a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll gave him an eight point lead over Bush . |