Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If 'e 'ad called the doctor then I say that no-one dies ! ’ |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 'E 's 'ad every comfort and t' best treatment Dr Dawson could give . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Manoeuvres to block him failed to stop the Assembly endorsing his claim to form a government , and he went ahead on 23 June 1960 . |
| 6 | Indeed , an upbringing which gave Alexander II many qualifications for the tasks which confronted him failed to conceal the fact that he was not very gifted at all . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Section 320 Companies Act 1985 provides that if a director of a company or its parent or holding company , or a person connected with him , enters into a contract with the company , under which the director or person connected with him agrees to purchase the company or assets ( other than cash ) of the company exceeding a certain value , then the contract must be approved in a general meeting by ordinary resolution . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | To an astonishing degree , the controversy about him has taken the form of a continuing debate about his private life . |
| 12 | Laud too was the King 's evil genius in persuading him to try to enforce the use in Scotland of a prayer book similar to that of the Church of England . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | His long bushy eyebrows , mingling with his coarse black hairline , made him appear to have no forehead at all . |
| 16 | This for him came to symbolize the futility of the war , which seemed to be fought for no discernible purpose , between opponents whose essential common humanity was denied by the mass slaughter . |
| 17 | The Young King had been pressing for permission to go on a pilgrimage to Compostella but Henry II , believing that this was just an excuse to get away from his watchful eye , had instead ordered him to help suppress the rebellion in Aquitaine . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | His swing was taut and abbreviated as , despite what his golfing mind was telling him ( swing slow , swing smoothly through the ball ) , the darker side of his mind made him try to steer the ball . |
| 20 | Erm I think I 've learnt how to do it , it 's fairly straightforward but er him having tied the leader on for me I wo n't have to go back to him anyway for quite some time . |
| 21 | ‘ Stories about him having to get a taxi home are complete nonsense , ’ Berlin said . |
| 22 | Suddenly I had this vision of him having taken an overdose and phoning to say goodbye . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Around him lay scattered the festering remains of half a dozen meals . |
| 25 | So me and him struggled to throw the thing out of the window . |
| 26 | ‘ We 'll see how far it takes you when you watch him try to clear the gatehouse the way he charged through a whole company of men that day , sword flashing right and left , trying to get to the King . |
| 27 | In one case an immigrant who was present in Britain was denied judicial review of a decision not to give him leave to enter the country because of the existence of a right of appeal which could only be exercised if the immigrant left Britain . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He had too , she realised , although she had been too absorbed in her own clumsy , hopeless awareness of him to have taken the fact in until now . |
| 30 | It would have been very unusual for him to have known a fact like that about his son 's life and movements . |