Example sentences of "[vb past] he [verb] [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 | And his mother , anxious when she could not make contact with him , reported him missing nine days later . |
| 3 | Once I even caught him buying tinned sardines — with all that fresh fish in the sea ! ’ |
| 4 | When W. H. Auden once found him playing that game and asked him why he seemed to relish it , he reflected gravely and then replied , " Well , I suppose it 's the nearest thing to being dead " . |
| 5 | Roy Fredericks 's second century helped him pass 500 runs for the series , although Richards and Greenidge still finished above him in the aggregates and averages . |
| 6 | Woodruffe helped him drink some Scotch and put him in Rogers 's limousine which a mechanic had brought over . |
| 7 | Afterwards they went shopping together and she helped him choose some shoes for his wife . |
| 8 | She helped him lose two stones . |
| 9 | Simon gained valuable site experience which helped him to gain chartered engineer status . |
| 10 | They helped him regain selective movements in his arm , and to control the grasp reflex in his hand . |
| 11 | The centre helped him to get professional help . |
| 12 | ‘ Arazi came to today 's race after enduring all sorts of problems — the trip to America for the Kentucky Derby , a hard race at Ascot when he was n't right and an injury which stopped him running two weeks ago . |
| 13 | Sadly he declined , saying in a charmingly self-deprecatory way that he doubted he had any views worth hearing . |
| 14 | Looking up in surprise , she found he had one eyebrow raised as though waiting for her to make some sarcastic comment , which successfully ensured that she did n't do any such thing . |
| 15 | As Rick was re-baiting , the clip on his other rod pulled and on checking the line he found he had another take . |
| 16 | The rescue co-ordinators include Scottish Natural Heritage and the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals abandoned plans to use whale song on Sunday , when Mr Goold found he needed stronger amplification of his recordings . |
| 17 | Nick found he disliked this idea very much . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The attorney agreed with Haydon about the injustice of the proceedings , and told him to return that evening to settle the matter finally . |
| 21 | God has n't given Paul an injection of energy and told him to face all kinds of circumstances . |
| 22 | 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 … ) |
| 23 | Luke sipped his juice : its extreme stringency caused him to lift both elbows and give a single , embittered nod . |
| 24 | The court appointed Robert Ramsay , a Western Australian accountant , as trustee , and directed him to recover any assets of the Bond estate . |
| 25 | Looking into her churning heart as she stood there that night , she knew she felt an affection for the man opposite and believed he had some affection for her . |
| 26 | He said that he believed he had lawful authority to ride the bike because he was repairing it for a friend . |
| 27 | He touched her face very tenderly and believed he felt warm flesh . |
| 28 | It seemed he heard that question again , a thousand years ago and in another world . |
| 29 | But frankly , if I thought about that at all , I imagined he had some side line , painting people 's houses perhaps or cleaning windows . ’ |
| 30 | So his got one , I noticed he has two books the other day . |