Example sentences of "he [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 'E lost two bruvvers in the war too . ’ |
| 2 | Well , 'e become top scorer o' centuries when 'e was 42 and went on to 197 of 'em before 'e retired at 51 . |
| 3 | Blimey , 'is eyes bulged at that , 'e looked blue murder at me . |
| 4 | ‘ If 'e puts another farm above this , then 'e 's better away . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Anyway , what 'appened was , 'e puts this record on the fing an' winds up the 'andle , an' guess what ? ’ |
| 6 | All around him rode many squadrons of Rajput cavalry whose armour glittered from afar . |
| 7 | Let him rule this country for you . ’ |
| 8 | It is also clear that Castro 's overriding concern with the security , both military and economic , of his revolution obliged him to conduct domestic policy with one eye on Moscow . |
| 9 | I do n't want him to lose all sense of proportion ; we must make a five . |
| 10 | James I did , on the specious excuse of the ransom due to England for his release ; James V blackmailed the papacy into allowing him to extort vast amounts of taxation from the church . |
| 11 | Tong ordered the pilot to circle Ho Chi Minh City to allow him to unload anti-communist leaflets over the city . |
| 12 | It hurt him to see such changes in her . |
| 13 | This global vision allows him to see foreign artists through Indian eyes and vice versa . |
| 14 | And it was the long shorts that allowed him to wear waist-to-ankle underpants during a game without anyone noticing . |
| 15 | I did n't want him to breathe that stuff into his lungs , ’ he says . |
| 16 | A Maryland medical board ordered him to perform 100 hours of service in an Aids clinic . |
| 17 | ‘ He 's played extensively in the Football League and I ca n't see him encountering any difficulty with the game over here . ’ |
| 18 | A steely ascetic renunciation marked his character , and Eusebius of Caesarea reports a tradition that in the zeal of youth he had subjected himself to castration to free him to instruct female pupils without scandal . |
| 19 | She could not let him throw last night in her face . |
| 20 | If , however , he believes in the right to a free and independent trade union , let him grant that right to the employees at the Government communications headquarters , who have been denied it for the past eight years . |
| 21 | A particular provision in this respect ( Clause 10.08 ) should be included in the agreement to cover the case of a partner being appointed without the benefit of a charging clause where it is necessary to exclude him from participating in fees earned on behalf of the firm for work done in the estate or trust concerned : for him to accept any benefit through the firm 's involvement would be incompatible with his position as executor or trustee . |
| 22 | Leading evangelist Jim Smith certainly thinks so , causing him to write three books on how the church can reach out and hold men . |
| 23 | But to have a trolley they needed money , their father 's money , and when Patsy suggested the idea to him , their father laughed and asked them where they expected him to find that sort of money . |
| 24 | Then the therapist needs to help him explore alternative approaches to the problem , or find some way of breaking the task down into more manageable steps . |
| 25 | Kapuscinski exercises a personal charm which must have helped him to establish friendly relations with the people he met , and to gather material , and which can seem to befriend the Western reader . |
| 26 | In 1783 his father 's will enabled him to establish full control of the business . |
| 27 | ‘ If she 'd been in love with Henry she 'd have agreed to be his mistress — not made him wait seven years for a divorce before she let him take her to bed . |
| 28 | Simon had once told her how if a Formula One driver blinked during a race it was the same as him driving thirty yards with his eyes shut , and Vitor 's stare was unrelenting . |
| 29 | The Swede 's cheque for £7,110 enabled him to jump 39 places in the Volvo Order of Merit from 157th place to 118th . |
| 30 | She saw him flick ice-blue eyes over her slender figure and immediately felt a surge of self-consciousness . |