Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless you 're like my Uncle Joe — a fox got his best foot , 'e 'ad to have a wooden leg , 'e was livid . ’ |
| 2 | 'E 's got a good look on — it must be a bit o' good land . ’ |
| 3 | God 's love for and claim on man are worked out through a judgement and condemnation which disclose a profound alienation and estrangement between man and God , a contradiction in which man has attempted to break away from the tie with God , so that God 's claim on him has become a consuming fire . |
| 4 | Perhaps as a result of his unpopularity , speculation about him has taken a new turn . |
| 5 | He thinks that he can lure me into making a statement that will have him attempting to give a poor man 's reading of ’ Erskine May ’ and saying that he wants me to lay the document before the House . |
| 6 | And I said ‘ yes ’ , and I reminded him that it was against the law for him to have possessed a wild animal in the first place , and he shrugged . |
| 7 | She had seen Billy enter the dining rooms in front of her as she returned from the park with Rachel , and the sight of him had sent a little shiver through her body . |
| 8 | And although Thornton seemed the obvious choice to the outside world , relationships with him had reached a new low in October 1985 . |
| 9 | She tried to move away , disturbed by the realisation that her feelings towards him had undergone a subtle change even though she could n't quite define it . |
| 10 | Gubbins was educated at Battersea Polytechnic , but was taken away at sixteen when the headmaster told his mother that educating him had proved a hopeless task . |
| 11 | If he wanted to , he could be a real show-off : ‘ My Own Private Catastrophe ’ is pure restraint , feedback and harmonics adding a peculiar tension to the track , whereas the apocalyptic ‘ Sever ’ has him seeming to invent a new ‘ Semtex ’ effects pedal . |
| 12 | almost every he pass he made had an incorrect address — when back at the side he looked somehow better — a good thing to get £500,000 for the guy if plays like that all the time . |
| 13 | Why does he want to marry a white woman ? |
| 14 | On 26 June he records shooting a wattle-cheeked honeyeater ‘ on the ranges near the Upper Torrens ’ ; he ‘ killed a Bittern on the 1st July near the Murray , above Gleeson 's Station ’ ; collected red throats ‘ about forty miles north of Lake Alexandrina ’ ; spotted a white-eyebrowed pomatorhinus ‘ near the bend of the river Murray ’ ( perhaps it was this remark that led some to guess that it was the great west bend to which Gould referred ) ; and shot a pink robin in ‘ a deep ravine under Mount Lofty ’ ( this was the last time an example of this species , Petroica rodinogaster was seen in South Australia , although one or two reliable observers said they had seen specimens in the area many years previously ) . |
| 15 | He chanced to find an identical skull in Cambridge which , to his surprise , came not from Egypt but from the Chatham Islands , near New Zealand . |
| 16 | Now they got much the same thing for the dinner , but if the prisoner had got any money of his own , and if he cared to contribute an extra sixpence he got a hot meal at midday . |
| 17 | On the Monday he phoned bosses back in England to tell them he would not be coming back , and that he planned to build a new life with their money . |
| 18 | After dinner he planned to make a proper start on sorting out the contents of the house . |
| 19 | ALAN Hickman from Derbyshire became worried about the advice he was receiving over his pension transfer when he realised that each expert he consulted recommended a different course of action . |
| 20 | Charles , who had a taste for mechanical devices , commissioned Gionallo Torriano of Cremona to repair it , but owing to corrosion he found that this was impossible and he agreed to make a similar instrument . |
| 21 | Terry Long was always a welcome visitor to Selhurst Park , but it was an enormous pleasure to everyone connected with Crystal Palace when he agreed to make a public return here in October 1984 to give recognition to Jim Cannon , who is the one man to have played more games for us than Terry himself did . |
| 22 | He invented the morning press conference for the purpose of calling an afternoon press conference to say he expected to make a shattering announcement later in the day . ’ |
| 23 | But he recovered to plant a glorious chip over Kelly from 20 yards . |
| 24 | The bungled pit stop dropped Hill from second on Prost 's tail to fourth and , although he recovered to grab a brilliant third place behind the Frenchman , it was difficult for him to hide his disappointment . |
| 25 | Dr Jones , of Coggeshall , was found guilty by the General Medical Council last month , which heard that he failed to detect a serious case of appendicitis , prescribing instead indigestion and ulcer tablets . |
| 26 | He failed to hold an innocuous drive from the edge of the box by Gus Caesar and Andy Smith reacted swiftly to despatch the rebound into the net . |
| 27 | Clearly unnerved by the physical presence of Mark Hateley , he failed to clutch a looping cross by Robertson . |
| 28 | Unfortunately the station master was rather deaf and he failed to hear an approaching train in the inky darkness of the tunnel and he was struck down and killed . |
| 29 | Simon was made aware that he might find himself obliged to stand down as a Parliamentary candidate if he failed to make an honest woman out of the Press Lord 's daughter . |
| 30 | He failed to get an expected promotion and started drinking heavily . |