Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , Mike , Mike and , he 's erm I do n't think he 's , I think he will be able to in future he 's got a meeting arranged tonight and he 'll be here next time . |
| 2 | At every stride he has to turn a corner |
| 3 | With this in mind he has established a small scientific strategic and research programme to look at the analytical programme from a broader perspective . |
| 4 | The tale is slight ; a voyage on a luxury train during which a down-on-his-luck-but-permanently optimistic producer attempts to regain the services and the affections of the famous actress he helped become a star . |
| 5 | There it is , God in his mercy and his love , in his graciousness he has provided a gift , a free package gift for you and for me forgiveness , salvation but there is our responsibility of receiving it or taking hold of it , of experiencing it . |
| 6 | In his fourteen years as a fancier he has converted a hobby into something of a triumphant campaign . |
| 7 | In one scene he had to take a handkerchief out of his pocket , and in the process shower Maggie Smith with nuts . |
| 8 | No wonder he had seemed a bit on edge . |
| 9 | Maurice told me that last winter he had to borrow a candle from Dreadnought to unfreeze the lock of his woodstore . |
| 10 | He grew flowers on the graves : last winter he had started a cemetery at the bottom of the garden and stuck in a big cross for a sign . |
| 11 | Previously , in the eighteenth and seventeenth centuries , a man himself could dress and show how wealthy he was , and when man started going to work he had to wear a respectable , responsible suit ; he had to put across the image of honesty , of , you know , I 'm , I 'm a respectable man , I 'm decent , I 'm down to earth . |
| 12 | Look at the mess he made making a cup of tea . |
| 13 | Although our patient is only 6 months post-transplantation he has had a remarkably trouble free postoperative course , and immunosuppression with FK506 has probably contributed to this good early result . |
| 14 | ALAN Hickman from Derbyshire became worried about the advice he was receiving over his pension transfer when he realised that each expert he consulted recommended a different course of action . |
| 15 | ‘ Ever since he was a boy he has had a fear of them . |
| 16 | We will be able to provide the equipment he needs to lead a normal life , and we know he 'll want for nothing in the future . ’ |
| 17 | But I know I could remember being taken round his school and in the main hall he 'd got a glass fronted cupboard , and he 'd got all sorts of well really and truly they were just pretty pebbles . |
| 18 | I followed him down the stairs , listening to him curse and shout ; in the front hall he tried to get a jacket on over his clothes but could n't get it to fit over his hand holding the gun . |
| 19 | Certainly he never became an outstanding dancer , but as a performer he did have a feeling for movement and character that enabled him to make a theatrical impact in some roles not needing much technique or classical style . |
| 20 | As a child he had played a game with some of his friends where one child would stand behind another and put his hands round the other 's chest . |
| 21 | During the campaign he suggested appointing a peace envoy to the troubled province an idea that angered and appalled the government . |
| 22 | Although the entrants to public sector HE do have a higher proportion from lower non-manual and manual backgrounds ( social classes III-V ) they are still in the minority ( Redpath and Harvey , 1987 ) . |
| 23 | During the war he had adopted a neo-romantic style in his drawings of landscapes , apple trees , houses and labouring figures . |
| 24 | Although he took Parliament 's side at the beginning of the civil war he attempted to arrange a neutrality pact with the Norfolk Royalists , and was soon advocating peace . |
| 25 | After the war he contemplated becoming a District Officer in Rhodesia but decided to rejoin the Consular Service . |
| 26 | His own aim was to return to the message of the Bible via the teaching of the Reformers , and on that basis he wished to outline a very different conception of the nature of Christian faith and life . |
| 27 | To the last moment he had feared a trap , but this was the fresh air before him , the dim air of the ravine he knew , hemmed in with rock on both sides between the church and the castle . |
| 28 | but in recognition of the pluralistic nature of the politics in modern capitalism he tried to draw a distinction between state power and class power . |
| 29 | On one occassion he had made a huge crossbow , hoping to throw himself to the mainland , but the elastic snapped , sending him backwards into the school and he had spent two weeks finding his way out . |
| 30 | At this point he decided to follow a mathematical career and soon he had added the senior mathematical scholarship to his list of honours . |