Example sentences of "he [verb] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She begged him to see this new doctor who , she said , was supposed to be very good , very sympathetic . |
| 2 | On this evidence I 'd like to hear him conduct some genuine Delius . |
| 3 | There 's talk of him opening two new salons in New York and Milan . |
| 4 | you know she told me about it , she says I think I must mention it and I said okay I wo n't do it any more and she said oh please do it , we need you to do it she said especially the letter formation , she says what just try and encourage him to write any old letters , just to make sure that he can form them without copying them |
| 5 | In Get Richie Quick ! , the hero 's ex-wife Lola asks him to find some missing family documents and turns out to be setting him up to take the blame for a series of axe murders she 's been committing since she was six years old . |
| 6 | Wagland created the chance with a mazy run that saw him elude several desperate challenges . |
| 7 | I would n't give any odds on him keeping that right arm , either . ’ |
| 8 | In his later years he recalled with pride the opportunity it gave him to lecture such eminent men as Sir Henry Stanley on the correct procedure for expedition photography . |
| 9 | The actual sedition charge , however , reportedly arose from an article on tribalism , in which Imanyara wrote that some readers had contacted him to allege that undue favouritism was being shown in official quarters towards particular groups . |
| 10 | ‘ Mebbe his father got worried about him driving that old jalopy — it were n't safe . |
| 11 | The Dutchman Jos Lansink , the only rider left with a chance of meeting the conditions for the first Everest Challenge ( which had required him to jump double clear rounds in four specified contests ) , would have collected a Jaguar car if he had won the Grand Prix . |
| 12 | For him to demand repeated empirical evidence at that stage was doubly unnecessary , for not only had he heard the words of Christ , he had listened to the eye-witness accounts of his fellow disciples . |
| 13 | It was the start of nearly 50 years hanging bells in churches across the country , so when the 6 at St Thomas 's in Oxford needed repairing , he told parishioners to ring the changes and let him install 4 extra ones . |
| 14 | Samson Agonistes 's presentation of a hero whose refusal to capitulate allows him to regain divine inner light and inflict a defeat on his enemies bears witness to the plea for continued resistance of the type a republican supporter would propose during a time of defeat . |
| 15 | Catherine was sounding tough and rational , but something in her voice made him feel this whole discussion was uncomfortable for her . |
| 16 | Mithra was later adopted by the Romans , who designated him to oversee all legal affairs and transactions . |
| 17 | In what can only be described as a pampered career , James was given considerable financial support by the library who funded his PhD , housed him and his family , and allowed him to receive numerous outside grants and sponsorships to fund extensive foreign travel . |
| 18 | The solicitors had a conflict of interests , and should have arranged for him to receive independent legal advice . |
| 19 | He had a passionate interest in music and opera which led him to design several operatic sets . |
| 20 | And since Niki — though he always did his duty — was ever notably surly with the press , what they invented about him caused Niki little joy . |
| 21 | Have you ever seen him do that flying spin kick ? |
| 22 | After him came poor old Richard Whitting , who was abbot when Cromwell sent his agents in . |
| 23 | She was followed by Rabbi Moishe , his sallow face with its rippling white beard inclining first to one side and then to the other as everyone did him honour by rising until he had passed , and just behind him came another black-garbed figure , a bespectacled priest , greying head covered by a yarmulkah . |
| 24 | Three counts against , then , and all urged him to resist this daemonic demand for sex . |
| 25 | As it is now three weeks since the Kincardine and Deeside by-election , when will he respond to our invitation to meet him to discuss these serious matters ? |
| 26 | What on earth made him use this appalling Americanism , he wondered . |
| 27 | He leaned forward , smiling , playing the perfect host , knowing how important it was for him to win these young men over . |
| 28 | It may at times become chaotic and disordered , but that , that 's not the normal state of affairs , and Hobbes ' analysis of social order leads him to conclude that social order only becomes possible , when individuals give up some of their freedom , to centralize authority . |
| 29 | As it is , Elizabeth could perhaps encourage him to do some voluntary work or find part-time employment to redefine his identity and meet new people . |
| 30 | What had finally driven him to do this dreadful thing ? |