Example sentences of "[vb past] he [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He came into still closer contact with the film industry when S. John Woods , as advertising director at Ealing Studios , invited him to design three posters . |
| 2 | Simon gained valuable site experience which helped him to gain chartered engineer status . |
| 3 | The centre helped him to get professional help . |
| 4 | So I told him to take these tablets and says if he felt no better he 'd better get to doctors , well he did n't even move out of bed , apart from summat to eat |
| 5 | He broke two of my teeth extracting them but he says they 're out clean , when I told him to take another X-ray of it . |
| 6 | The attorney agreed with Haydon about the injustice of the proceedings , and told him to return that evening to settle the matter finally . |
| 7 | God has n't given Paul an injection of energy and told him to face all kinds of circumstances . |
| 8 | This caused him to invent Ambivalent Music , which you ca n't quite tell if you are listening to or not ( see Ambulance house music … ) |
| 9 | Luke sipped his juice : its extreme stringency caused him to lift both elbows and give a single , embittered nod . |
| 10 | The court appointed Robert Ramsay , a Western Australian accountant , as trustee , and directed him to recover any assets of the Bond estate . |
| 11 | The nurses also encouraged him to drink 1 litres of fluid a day and gave him steam inhalations every 4 hours . |
| 12 | I felt that she may have either directly or indirectly encouraged him to make this decision for several reasons : she was suffering ; she knew that he was n't going to leave the hospital and she accepted that ; and she did n't like seeing him talk himself into more suffering for him and for her ; and I do n't think there 's any question that in some sense she must have gotten this across to him that he ought to give up much more than anyone else . |
| 13 | And it was the long shorts that allowed him to wear waist-to-ankle underpants during a game without anyone noticing . |
| 14 | He therefore ruled that Reagan should testify , but rejected a request that he should appear in person , and instead allowed him to give videotaped evidence . |
| 15 | Neither the religious nor the sexual anxiety in Eliot 's poems came simply from his reading , but that reading allowed him to give supra-individual expression to his personal pain ; he clothed his own cry in the language and mythology of great traditions and their interpretations , making it ‘ impersonal ’ . |
| 16 | Then , influenced by his aunt Naomi Treen ( née Cubitt ) , a teacher at an elementary school practising Pestalozzian methods , he obtained in 1851 the post of master at Holy Trinity National School , Lambeth , where the progressive vicar , the Revd James Gillman , allowed him to pioneer revolutionary teaching methods in natural history and to set up a school museum . |
| 17 | Ms Leaming tells it all with vim , though the gossip turns her on far more than the movies : ‘ Aly practised an Eastern art of love known as Imsak , which allowed him to exercise indefinite control … ’ |
| 18 | Ben Jonson , a ‘ scholarship boy ’ whose ability with language allowed him to gain social advancement , is keen to distance himself from popular writing whose techniques he so skilfully employs . |
| 19 | This way of thinking allowed him to concede some shortcomings of moral insight in the Old Testament . |
| 20 | Almost the last of the gifted amateurs to hold their own among scientific professionals , his considerable intellect also allowed him to provide clear analysis of administrative problems , which he tackled in conciliatory style . |
| 21 | In one artist 's statement , he remarked : Whilst the Lefevre exhibition established him as urban romantic with a particular feeling for Thames-side subjects , a number of commissions followed which allowed him to develop this vein . |
| 22 | Wirral magistrates made a 12-month probation order and also ordered him to serve 100 hours ' community work . |
| 23 | The judge ordered him to do 120 hours community service , saying you wo n't do it again , I hope you can put it all behind you . |
| 24 | A Maryland medical board ordered him to perform 100 hours of service in an Aids clinic . |
| 25 | A couple of weeks after the arrests , a lawyer in the Belfast office of the Treasury Solicitor was drawing up charges on the basis of the presence of the pistol when a senior police official ordered him to prepare fresh indictments charging them with murdering three specified Roman Catholics . |
| 26 | Life had given him very little , just taught him to snatch any opportunities that came his way and use them to his advantage . |
| 27 | When he was shadow Secretary of State and I challenged him to have this debate in the Select Committee on Welsh Affairs , he said , " We soon will . " |
| 28 | After Christmas he had wanted to arrange for the marriage to take place straight away , before he could change his mind , but it was difficult to fit it in with his new duties as a Governor of the Foundling Hospital which required him to spend one day a week in town . |
| 29 | No less important to Reagan 's political future was the other part of his contract with General Electric which required him to spend 16 weeks a year touring GE plants around the country . |
| 30 | It seemed unlikely that the undertaker had troubled sufficiently about those who survived him to take such precautions , but no one could speak with confidence of what had passed through the mind of this man whose deepest preoccupations seemed to be represented by a few scored lines in a medical book and a little bundle of poems . |