Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If 'e 'ad called the doctor then I say that no-one dies ! ’ |
| 2 | Manoeuvres to block him failed to stop the Assembly endorsing his claim to form a government , and he went ahead on 23 June 1960 . |
| 3 | Indeed , an upbringing which gave Alexander II many qualifications for the tasks which confronted him failed to conceal the fact that he was not very gifted at all . |
| 4 | Section 320 Companies Act 1985 provides that if a director of a company or its parent or holding company , or a person connected with him , enters into a contract with the company , under which the director or person connected with him agrees to purchase the company or assets ( other than cash ) of the company exceeding a certain value , then the contract must be approved in a general meeting by ordinary resolution . |
| 5 | To an astonishing degree , the controversy about him has taken the form of a continuing debate about his private life . |
| 6 | Laud too was the King 's evil genius in persuading him to try to enforce the use in Scotland of a prayer book similar to that of the Church of England . |
| 7 | This for him came to symbolize the futility of the war , which seemed to be fought for no discernible purpose , between opponents whose essential common humanity was denied by the mass slaughter . |
| 8 | The Young King had been pressing for permission to go on a pilgrimage to Compostella but Henry II , believing that this was just an excuse to get away from his watchful eye , had instead ordered him to help suppress the rebellion in Aquitaine . |
| 9 | His swing was taut and abbreviated as , despite what his golfing mind was telling him ( swing slow , swing smoothly through the ball ) , the darker side of his mind made him try to steer the ball . |
| 10 | Erm I think I 've learnt how to do it , it 's fairly straightforward but er him having tied the leader on for me I wo n't have to go back to him anyway for quite some time . |
| 11 | Around him lay scattered the festering remains of half a dozen meals . |
| 12 | So me and him struggled to throw the thing out of the window . |
| 13 | ‘ We 'll see how far it takes you when you watch him try to clear the gatehouse the way he charged through a whole company of men that day , sword flashing right and left , trying to get to the King . |
| 14 | In one case an immigrant who was present in Britain was denied judicial review of a decision not to give him leave to enter the country because of the existence of a right of appeal which could only be exercised if the immigrant left Britain . |
| 15 | He had too , she realised , although she had been too absorbed in her own clumsy , hopeless awareness of him to have taken the fact in until now . |
| 16 | One wore a black felt hat , and his shoulder-length hair and beard were silver enough for him to have known the beatnik era . |
| 17 | He saw Goodenache 's face react in surprise as he recognized Adam , saw him start to close the door again . |
| 18 | Wing Commander J.M. Gilchrist had been appointed Bursar and Clerk to the Governors in 1962 , and to him had fallen the task — in addition to his ordinary duties — of arranging the financing of the numerous building programmes . |
| 19 | And around him had arisen the sight — seen so often on his travels — of the hundreds of thousands of vagrants , beggar men , women and children , now roving over the richest island in the world like tormented souls in irredeemable exile … |
| 20 | If he 'd been on the train and had walked with the other racegoers towards the station , Filmer could have seen him through the window … and just the sight of him had caused the tensing of the neck muscles … and if Filmer had n't yet paid him for whatever … then he would come back to the train … |
| 21 | He wished that one of the journalists who 'd interviewed him had expressed the substance of his life and work in such up-market , romantic terms . |
| 22 | She was herself the daughter of a rabbi , whose father and grandfather before him had upheld the light of Jewish learning in their part of Poland . |
| 23 | He said that , during the 20-minute journey to the quarry at Furnace on Loch Fyne , a lit cigarette had been used to burn him on the back of the neck , he had been struck constantly , and as the car travelled at speeds up to 70mph , the man beside him had opened the door and told him to take his chances and jump . |
| 24 | Andy was supervising a chlorination at a large tape manufacturers in Middlesbrough when the opportunity came for him to test drive the vehicle . |
| 25 | He jabbed the Englishman twice in the ribs again , watched him fight to control the pain , watched his victim 's eyes drift back into focus . |
| 26 | Mueller is the oldest , the most successful and probably the best known of all currently active downhillers , so the sight of him volunteering to do the donkey work in a one-horse FIS race was enough to humble me into removing my skis and following him , along with 138 other racers ! |
| 27 | This had a marvellous calming effect on him and made him determined to do the job right , especially as it was Molly 's first time . |
| 28 | Cornford 's individualism caused him to refuse to join the Officer Training Corps . |
| 29 | But it was bigoted political obstinacy , not courage , which induced him to refuse to devalue the pound . |
| 30 | Perkin with brotherly bossiness told him to stop kicking the table leg and Gareth uncharacteristically sulked . |