Example sentences of "[vb past] he [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | While they ate he made polite conversation , avoiding with care any of the deeper , more important issues that needed to be talked about and resolved . |
| 32 | The nurses also encouraged him to drink 1 litres of fluid a day and gave him steam inhalations every 4 hours . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | And it was the long shorts that allowed him to wear waist-to-ankle underpants during a game without anyone noticing . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | 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 ’ . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | 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 … ’ |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | This way of thinking allowed him to concede some shortcomings of moral insight in the Old Testament . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | The arrest of King had been videotaped by an amateur cameraman , and the resulting footage showed him receiving 56 baton blows and being brutally kicked by police . |
| 44 | The hospital confirmed he spent 40 minutes having his injuries examined . |
| 45 | Miss Claire Cannon , prosecuting , said that tests showed he had 74 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath . |
| 46 | Bowden gave a blood sample — because the breathalyser machine was defective — which showed he had 203 milligrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood . |
| 47 | Mr Lee claimed he had personal knowledge of a case in which a person had bought and sold council houses on four occasions . |
| 48 | Quelch claimed he had verbal consent from the NRA . |
| 49 | In his libel action seeking aggravated damages , Donovan claimed he suffered serious injury to his professional and personal reputation , considerable distress and embarrassment and that the article implied he was guilty of gross hypocrisy and deceit by denying that he was homosexual . |
| 50 | ROCK drummer Mitch Mitchell won substantial libel damages in the High Court yesterday after a book claimed he made racist comments to Jimi Hendrix when he played in his band , the Experience . |
| 51 | He reckoned he had enough time to see Maidstone , then get down to the pensione and change before making his way back up to the Vomero again . |
| 52 | David was so upset about the prospect of going to a day centre that when the ambulance arrived he had uncharacteristic temper tantrums on the doorstep . |
| 53 | He heard him speak some words , but he could n't make out what they were ; he then saw him bend and kiss her , not on the cheek but on the lips . |
| 54 | I had on the programme Brahms 's Fourth Symphony and at the rehearsal Lamond said to me , ‘ You know , I knew Brahms ; I heard him conduct this piece . ’ |
| 55 | Wakelate left the room , and Cleo heard him making gruff remarks through the privy door on the landing outside . |
| 56 | She heard him making little noises with his lips and tongue as if preparing to speak . |
| 57 | I heard him put more money into the box . |
| 58 | I heard him giving many readings , and now of course they are on record ; but I think he was at his best — with every word clearly articulated — among a small group such as that at Kelham . |
| 59 | He heard him say several times , ‘ I 'll never leave him . ’ |
| 60 | Wirral magistrates made a 12-month probation order and also ordered him to serve 100 hours ' community work . |