Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To enable him to cross examine the plaintiffs as er he sees appropriate . |
| 2 | When it was clear that the putsch had failed , Yeltsin made Grachev a hero and even proposed ( what was not yet properly in his gift ) the post of Soviet defence minister but its leaders were still at large , Yeltsin offered Grachev the future post of Russian defence minister , at the same time asking him to help arrest the plotters . |
| 3 | Bill got the orchid bug from an old neighbour who encouraged him to start breeding the plants . |
| 4 | that she could could make the tea or something you know , him having put the cups out and everything and I I put the teapot there and said put two tea bags in it and she just |
| 5 | Jenna looked across towards the barn and then flung herself back beside him to lie watching the clouds scudding across the blue sky . |
| 6 | ‘ Elaine sent him a letter telling him to stop sending the T-O-Y-S and things . |
| 7 | He also — as a by-product of the grant he made to repay the monks for the loss of their plate following his aid to Rufus in 1095 — provided money for the rebuilding of the cathedral choir on a greatly enlarged scale . |
| 8 | The difficulty with writing it down was that it became real to the extent of being in a book , there were two lives , the one in the book and the one which he lived to collect the details for the book one ; he could go further in his head than on the page , the words slowed him down . |
| 9 | I do n't think he realised learning the facts of life was precisely what most of us would do if we stopped demonstrating and went back to bed . |
| 10 | In 1936 Trinity gave him a scholarship and he planned to study the Elizabethans , but when the Spanish civil war broke out on 18 July 1936 , on a sudden impulse and without even saying goodbye to his family he left for Dieppe . |
| 11 | He agreed to share the costs of the West Indies series because ‘ our service is complementary ’ . |
| 12 | Cos I go , Steven goes erm , Steven goes bring the , to Shelley , he goes bring the mother-fuckers down like that . |
| 13 | He goes to move the curtains . |
| 14 | BILLY Connolly 's got his out-of-work wife Pam a job in the circus — as long as he agrees to tear the tickets . |
| 15 | He asked to see the images in the church , of which there was so much talk . |
| 16 | He failed to notice the flames licking around the drawers of the filing cabinet . |
| 17 | However , despite meetings with Levy and Shamir , he failed to persuade the Israelis to change their policy . |
| 18 | As to this , Eadmer gives strong hints that he failed to prevent the encroachments of powerful tenants , but the details of these aggressions are lost : they seem to have had no important effect on the general prosperity of the Church of Canterbury . |
| 19 | London-born Mike MacFarlane established himself as the top black British athlete by winning the 200 metres European title , though his form thereafter lapsed and , although he made the 1980 Olympic sprint team , he failed to make the finals . |
| 20 | Pakistan 's Javed Miandad then appealed for calm , but he failed to quieten the protesters . |
| 21 | In all probability he failed to understand the consequences of his actions . |
| 22 | He got to know the players of bluegrass music with which he was familiar from his youth and listened to blues singers like Big Bill Broonzy . |
| 23 | When furious Mia confronted Allen , he admitted taking the photos — but DENIED having an affair with Soon-Yi . |
| 24 | This was indeed the case in the original proposal of Boltzmann , when in 1876 he sought to explain the experiments of Weber and Kohlrausch on the elastic after-effect in twisted wires . |
| 25 | He sought to save the lives of More and Fisher by suggesting that they be required to subscribe only to an oath to respect the succession , and not to repudiate the authority of Rome . |
| 26 | For more than two years from mid-1986 , Mazur — known as Musella to his drug world contacts — risked his life as he sought to infiltrate the smugglers in an operation known as C-Chase . |
| 27 | Above all , he sought to bring the headmen , or ‘ village police ’ , fully into a police structure which would cover the entire island . |
| 28 | Ben Turner , 18 , admitted knocking him down but said he tried to stop the others from piling in . |
| 29 | Lin was writing about his native village but he tried to evade the problems posed by autobiographical honesty by couching his story in the form of a novel . |
| 30 | Pavis , upset at being interrupted as he tried to thank the contractors who have built three new stands , said : ‘ I regret the choice of words but it was an instinctive reaction which was n't meant to be heard . ’ |