Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , surely , would inflame Harry and make him want to make love to her . |
| 2 | Getting the medal has spurred him to try to make contact with old friend and ship 's cook on HMS London , Alfie Freeman . |
| 3 | Two juries had been sworn in — one to decide if Wells 's mental condition made him unfit to stand trial for murder . |
| 4 | A man was astounded to walk into his son 's bedroom and find him sitting playing chess with his dog . |
| 5 | Since about 1938 Ho had been in China , first at the communist headquarters in Yenan then , apparently , with Chinese Nationalist forces , finally in Kwangsi and Yunnan which were close enough for him to attempt to resume contact with the Party inside Vietnam . |
| 6 | For years he and his father before him had endured advice from well-meaning lunatics as to what he should do with the place — concreting the stones , or letting archaeologists burrow under them with their excavations , or digging a defensive moat round it — and Sir Edmund Antrobus , Bart , had had enough . |
| 7 | He made moving reference to its founding philosophy . |
| 8 | If he cared to make use of it , station and train fulfilled the role of a social centre for the suburban male , a forum for the exchange of news , the making of new acquaintances and contacts , the publication of requirements , even the collection of money for charities . |
| 9 | He planned to take care of her himself over the next five days , he told her . |
| 10 | Williams told a press conference at the IS last month that he planned to study law from September . |
| 11 | He agreed to take part in a Liverpool Polytechnic experiment to assess the effect of stress on referees , by monitoring the heartbeat and pulse , taking other factors such as fitness into account . |
| 12 | David Emanuel , has an enviable clientele , but with a daughter at the College , he agreed to take charge of the charity event . |
| 13 | By the beginning of February 1989 he had enough to convince him that it was real , and he agreed to go public by talking about it at the American Physical Society meeting in Baltimore the following May . |
| 14 | In January 1936 he lectured in Dublin and when in June of the same year he agreed to read poetry at Sylvia Beach 's bookshop in Paris ( he was in that city for a four-day visit ) she described it as an " historic event " although one member of the audience on that occasion remembered how he did not once glance at his listeners , but seemed " fiercely defensive " and turned the pages with a " look very near distaste " : his profile was " like a bird of prey of some sort " . |
| 15 | Dave used to be the Chairman of the Young Conservatives at thirty two , er , he was also a local councillor in nineteen seventy-five to nineteen seventy-eight in his home town of , erm , and he used to be Rotarian , for two years , he goes to raise money for charities . |
| 16 | He takes him to a football training course , because he does n't like to think that he goes to play football on the park . |
| 17 | Would he be content to leave her in charge of Thomas and merely check on his progress from time to time , or might he endeavour to wield control in her — his — their son 's life ? |
| 18 | Like many other non-Luxembourg accountants , he applied to take advantage of the transitional regulations . |
| 19 | In 1895 he became examining chaplain to the bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa , Alfred Tucker [ q.v . ] . |
| 20 | Mrs Sutcliffe , wearing dark tinted glasses , listened carefully in the packed public benches as Mr Lightman read out an affidavit by Oliver Duke , once the boyfriend of Mail on Sunday reporter Barbara Jones , in which he admitted taking part in a scheme to get the money secretly from the newspaper to Mrs Sutcliffe . |
| 21 | He admitted taking heroin with one employee after work but denied introducing him to drugs or setting up any deals . |
| 22 | He admitted possessing cannabis worth about £800 with intent to supply it . |
| 23 | David Gerald Swales , 22 , unemployed , of Severn Way , Darlington , was jailed for nine months by Judge William Hannah , at Teesside Crown Court , after he admitted possessing LSD with intent to supply . |
| 24 | Law conceived of the role of the leader in an exactly opposite sense from Balfour : he sought to foster unity by placing himself at the head of the discordant elements where Balfour had thrown the leadership on the side of restraint . |
| 25 | The damages being unpaid , he sought to levy execution upon Hansard and to put the sheriff 's men in to distrain goods to the value of the judgment . |
| 26 | He sought to focus attention on imminent economic recovery while Mr Kinnock said that after presiding over two recessions the Tories ‘ simply do n't deserve ’ to be re-elected . |
| 27 | She saw his shoulders lift and fall as he sought to gain control of himself . |
| 28 | JOHN Smith today faced fresh criticism over Labour 's image as he sought to side-step confrontation with trade union barons over his plans for party democracy . |
| 29 | Like Sartre , he sought to constitute Marxism as a form of truth , but attempted to prove its truth not through the dialectic of history but rather as a science , authenticating Marx 's ‘ immense theoretical revolution ’ epistemologically through a demonstration of its scientificity . |
| 30 | He must draw deductions about what he thinks took place from the evidence that is presented to him . |