Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] [verb] he [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Lincoln University awarded him an Honorary Doctorate ( 1951 ) his delight was obvious . |
| 2 | Very few people took Gedge 's humour the wrong way , but on one of those occasions an NME reviewer labelled him a ‘ gawky , arrogant mighty mouth . ’ |
| 3 | So it was a stroke of luck when a friend scrapping an old Volvo car gave him a complete system to fit to his tractor . |
| 4 | His cheesecutter hat and Burberry overcoat gave him the look of a working class spiv . |
| 5 | KEITH RAMSEY 'S match-winning shot for Manchester Giants in the 105-104 victory over Sunderland 76ers on Tuesday night made him the toast of the Stretford Sports Centre , particularly as all of their supporters had been confined to the bar . |
| 6 | Aberdeen University awarded him an honorary DD in 1895 . |
| 7 | He believed Orkney Islands Council found him an annoyance . |
| 8 | The Williams team gave him a quick change of tyres … but not quick enough to prevent Patrase and Senna fly past into the lead . |
| 9 | Players who visited him during his final days in the Walton Centre gave him an Everton shirt which was later buried with him . |
| 10 | But no matter how much he twisted and turned , the Liverpool dynamo gave him no rest . |
| 11 | First a mix-up in the West Ham defence gave him a clear sight of goal , but Ludek Miklosko threw himself at Smillie 's feet to save . |
| 12 | An office cleaner went on a betting spree after a TSB error gave him a £10,000 bank overdraft , Liverpool Crown Court was told yesterday . |
| 13 | The Khmer Rouge paid him no wages , but sometimes the porters carrying rice and ammunition supplies from the Thai border would also bring cigarettes and rice wine . |
| 14 | In 1986 Forbes magazine named him the richest man in America . |
| 15 | But the chairman of Velcro is a very British knight , Sir Humphrey Cripps , a 75-year-old Northamptonshire businessman whose extraordinary generosity to charities , Cambridge colleges , and Nottingham University earned him a knighthood in 1989 . |
| 16 | Edinburgh University awarded him an honorary LLD in 1913 . |
| 17 | It would only call fur a small diversion from the direct route from Stanley to McMurdo Sound to give him a glimpse of the Ice Shelf and the area where Shackleton 's Endurance was beset and finally sunk . ’ |
| 18 | Thus his possession of Barnard Castle gave him the service of Robert Brackenbury , but also the means to reward Richard Ratcliffe . |
| 19 | Thus his possession of Barnard Castle gave him the service of Robert Brackenbury , but also the means to reward Richard Ratcliffe . |
| 20 | St Andrews University awarded him an honorary LLD in 1875 . |
| 21 | Charles II managed to induce the Barbados assembly to grant him the revenue forever from a tax of 4½ per cent of the value of all sugar exported from the island , and the Leeward Islands settled on the same terms and were briefly united under the same governor as Barbados . |