Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This copper said 'e used ter be on the Tunnel beat an' 'e 'd seen a bloke who looked like me knockin' around wiv 'em . |
| 2 | Mind you — - " she jerked her head in the direction of the Russell , which had recently returned from Plymouth and lay at anchor in the Pool , " 'E 's got a lot to answer for . |
| 3 | William Walker , an official from the State Department , remembered seeing him rush to catch a flight to Central America , having just got off a flight from Europe , unkempt , a flight-bag over his shoulder . |
| 4 | Last night heartbroken Sandy , who lived with Brian at Didsbury , Manchester , said : ‘ Everyone who knew him has lost a part of themselves through this tragedy . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , ’ continued Gloria between swallows of coffee , ‘ the lady what polishes the cars for him has got a sister what does cleaning at Stowbridge Tech . ’ |
| 6 | Casting around for a task for the Crown Prince , Palace advisers had considered putting him to work leading a development campaign within the Commonwealth , before the inner-city initiative seized his imagination . |
| 7 | The clothes he wore , the cut of his hair , even the subtly elegant watch on his wrist , everything about him seemed to indicate a man who had been brought up to take wealth for granted . |
| 8 | If the trailer knows that the car he wishes to sell has already been ‘ clocked , ’ the way for him to avoid committing an offence is , not to ‘ clock ’ it further himself , but to give the customer a candid intimation of its falsity , i. e. a disclaimer . |
| 9 | ‘ Stories about him having to get a taxi home are complete nonsense , ’ Berlin said . |
| 10 | Suddenly I had this vision of him having taken an overdose and phoning to say goodbye . |
| 11 | will prevent him having to consider a mass of trivial complaints where it is unlikely that criminal charges would ever be brought but there has been some concern that the chief officer of police is given a discretion whether or not to refer complaints which disclose criminal conduct to the D.P.P. , although this decision is of course supervised . |
| 12 | If the Queen judged that another party leader could form a government with majority support ( say , Mr Kinnock with the support of the Liberal Democrats ) , she would be entitled to ask him to attempt to form a government . |
| 13 | It would have been very unusual for him to have known a fact like that about his son 's life and movements . |
| 14 | It was , after all , the first letter and did n't things like how you addressed him have to climb a kind of ladder ? |
| 15 | Yet when he made to take a line of stones he had surrounded from the board , the boy placed his hand over Tuan 's , stopping him , lifting his hand so that he might study the position , his face creased into a frown , as if trying to take in what he had done wrong . |
| 16 | Look at the mess he made making a cup of tea . |
| 17 | But I said I knew you and did he want to leave a message . |
| 18 | Some time afterwards he chanced to see a hobby-horse being ridden along a nearby road , and was struck with the notion of making one for himself . |
| 19 | Long may he remain to provide an exemplar . |
| 20 | The following night the moon would be full and he planned to take a force of eighteen jeeps directly on to the airfield in two columns and shoot up anything they found . |
| 21 | Waldegrave said that the need to promote the public understanding of science would be addressed in the forthcoming White Paper ( policy document ) on science and technology and that he planned to launch a campaign to ‘ evangelize ’ science . |
| 22 | After his comeback as a serious musician , he planned to launch a book on the astonished and admiring world . |
| 23 | He said he planned to write a book about the 1989 protests and that he had no plans to go overseas , as several other released political prisoners have done . |
| 24 | He planned to steal a car — although he could not drive — and to strap a knife to his body before crashing the vehicle . |
| 25 | That same month , bowing to pressure , he agreed to appoint a Minister for the Coordination of Defence . |
| 26 | The defendant in Breed v. Cluett ( 1970 D.C. ) entered a contract whereby he agreed to sell a bungalow . |
| 27 | In fact he was so impressed he agreed to make an allowance towards James 's student fees at St Bartholomew 's , but it had not stretched to comfortable accommodation . |
| 28 | He agreed to send a representative , General Catroux , to negotiate with the giraudists . |
| 29 | And then Jason yeah and they 're like saying , they say look it was an early seventies crime you 've got ta help us , how would you handle it because they 're not allowed to use fast cars and guns and he goes find a country house |
| 30 | As a gesture of goodwill , it should be suggested to the purchaser that he offers to sign a confidentiality undertaking in favour of the vendors covering such information . |