Example sentences of "[vb -s] he [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Gloucester City Football Club have done an about turn too … they 've got Brian Godfrey the man they sacked as manager three months ago back in charge … the chairman says he made a mistake … three cheers for him … |
| 32 | A report says he made a series of errors , but goes on to praise him for rescuing his pilot and passengers when the helicopter threatened to catch fire . |
| 33 | The driver says he bought a beer . |
| 34 | He says he wants a compromise acceptable to Britain and its partners — which means he does not want to stop other countries moving towards EMU . |
| 35 | Now he 's got that , he says he wants a wordprocessor . |
| 36 | He says he wants a word with you , Sophie . ’ |
| 37 | My daughter ( seven ) wants to be a ballerina when she grows up and my son ( five ) says he wants a wife ‘ to do the cooking ’ . |
| 38 | Her husband says he found a photographer hiding in some bushes by his house . |
| 39 | He says he did a deal with a man in a pub , a man whose name he ca n't remember and he 'd never met before . ’ |
| 40 | And canny Kenny says he knows a man who can . |
| 41 | The thing is , he says he knows a lot about the world , he knows what men are like , he says he 's just worried for me . |
| 42 | He says he knows a lot more about the tape than the public know . |
| 43 | ‘ But it is the owner 's view that Jimmy does not suit Cool Ground , and he says he prefers a jockey who sits still and allows the horse to take him along to his fences . |
| 44 | Says he has a woman and two boys to keep and needs money . ’ |
| 45 | Sometimes I go to bed and he comes and says he has a lot of hit songs for me . ’ |
| 46 | He says he needed a cup of coffee and a sit-down after it was all over . |
| 47 | Home video shows him enjoying a family Christmas but detectives believe he did n't live long enough to see in the New Year . |
| 48 | He was accustomed to conventional envy from some of his contemporaries ( although it could still distress him — Joseph Chiari recalls him leaving a party in Edinburgh because of the atmosphere of jealousy which he sensed there ) . |
| 49 | His vision leads him to seek a saviour that he finds in the proletariat , albeit heavily cloaked in ‘ ideology ’ . |
| 50 | He discovers he has a talent for predicting the future , but ironically this privilege only increases his sense of the present . |
| 51 | Tomorrow is his Feast Day , but little is known about the life of this fourth-century divine ; he was renowned as a preacher and energetic founder of nunneries , and raised the funds to build the basilica in Verona where a statue depicts him holding a fishing-rod . |
| 52 | Basil also remembers he smoked a pipe which he managed to fill and light with matches , entirely unaided . |
| 53 | It appears he lit a cigarette which ignited the petrol fumes . |
| 54 | In fact , it seems he had a stroke , but that the doctors were discouraged from treating him quickly by the Securitate . |
| 55 | Seems he bought a small-holding on the moor a few years back and set up these classes . |
| 56 | His wife asks him to read a poem from his book . |
| 57 | Barrett , who has recently scored two impressive first round stoppage victories in Italy , decided he needs more experience in the welterweight division and feels he made a mistake in challenging Manning Galloway too soon for the WBO welterweight crown last July . |
| 58 | The Prince feels he has a responsibility as a landowner to set an example to others , always to take the humane or the conservationist route above the straight commercial . |
| 59 | Guruji clearly feels he has a mandate to aid the patient 's struggle , not only against his illness but also against those who by their conduct either ‘ cause ’ or perpetuate the illness . |
| 60 | He feels he has a lot to say and wants to do a serious in depth interview dealing with The Smiths current position as well as certain endeavours he 's been involved in . ’ |