Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tilting it to one side he allowed the object to clatter onto the table . |
| 2 | But the man said he believed the shooting of the teenagers was ‘ wrong ’ , and that by the morning after the shooting he realised the relevance of what he had witnessed . |
| 3 | In a tough speech to the Crime Reporters ' Association he said the IRA would cease their evil trade if they could see the level of public support given to the police — much of it from the Irish community . |
| 4 | During the war he sold his interest in his galleries and went off to war ; following this six-year closure he reopened the Hans Road gallery but decided not to reopen the American galleries ; it was hard enough to get the good material for one shop . |
| 5 | This is Dickens 's final comment , and in future he avoided the topic of school education . |
| 6 | In future he wants the recreation committee to have the chance to veto controversial exhibitions . |
| 7 | In one stride he crossed the bar , and had the young man 's collar in one hand , the other knotted into a fist beneath his jaw . |
| 8 | After test driving a Ford RS2000 police car he praised the UK motor industry for developing more environmentally friendly vehicles , including the use of alternative fuels . |
| 9 | In the Foreign Office the central block was adjacent to the park , while with the War Department he gave the judges alternative layouts . |
| 10 | Without waiting for a reply he crossed the room . |
| 11 | He 's got to , Simon 's got the name and address of the kiddie he sold the bike to . |
| 12 | By a supreme stroke of irony he got the job , with the possibility of taking over as kapellmeister on the death or retirement of the ageing and sickly incumbent , Leopold Hoffman . |
| 13 | In disgust he threw the paper into the crowd . |
| 14 | At yesterday 's installation ceremony he told the audience : ‘ I adopted Middlesbrough and it now turns out Middlesbrough has adopted me . ’ |
| 15 | A hunter turned safari operator , Oskar Koenig , describes a ceremony he calls the Festival of Love which he purports to have witnessed : ‘ One of the young men knelt by the cowhide near a hole in the ground , which , as I knew , was meant to resemble the vagina . |
| 16 | In the back of his mind he knew the air in the Base was getting staler as the crisis progressed , but he could n't afford to worry about that now . |
| 17 | With this in mind he approached the Reservoir Quality Prediction team in March and geologist Andrew Hogg and petrophysicist Susan Young set to work . |
| 18 | With one part of his mind he logged the fact that Mum had understood the worst immediately and must in some way have been expecting it . |
| 19 | At this point in Uncle Albert 's path around his study he reached the fireplace and caught sight of the clock on the mantlepiece . |
| 20 | In his 1985 study he develops the notion of a value chain from earlier similar notions of complete business systems discussed and used by both McKinsey and IBM . |
| 21 | Though their controller of programmes in Scotland indicated , in an interview he gave The Scotsman earlier this year , that many of the aims and aspirations of the Scottish task force had been incorporated , in his view , in the final version of ‘ Extending Choice ’ , John Birt 's mission statement for the future of the BBC . |
| 22 | When the news was broken to Vaclav Havel in the middle of Jon Snow 's television interview he stopped the cameras , appalled , much too moved to be able to make an appropriate instant response . |
| 23 | Here the reader has once again been won back onto Pip 's side after his care of Magwitch which seems especially significant as upon hearing that he was his true benefactor he loathes the man and tried to distance him from him , physically and socially . |
| 24 | When he reached the open doorway he booted the parcel into the room and whirled around to slam the door behind him . |
| 25 | And as the all-too-solid original took a single step out from the doorway he dropped the loop of wire over its head and , like a man straining to start an outboard motor , suddenly hauled it tight for all he was worth . |
| 26 | Small wonder therefore that as a drama critic he grasped the significance of R. C. Sherriff 's famous play , Journey 's End , in 1929 . |
| 27 | In the last chapter he described the birth of his son . |
| 28 | Fired up by that ambition he turned the Supper on end , and began to squeeze burnt umber directly on to the canvas , spreading it with a palette knife until the scene beneath was completely obscured . |
| 29 | If you are employed , is your boss getting the quality of labour he has the right to expect ? |
| 30 | With a high sense not only of justice but of dramatic effect he informed the judge that the only courses open to him were ‘ either to resign your post , or inflict on me the severest penalty if you believe that the system and law you are assisting to administer are good for the people ’ . |