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Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Still I 'm pleased 'e 's got that lighterman 's job .
2	Did his opinion of her prompt him to try to scotch any possibility of a friendship developing between Rob and herself ?
3	He got his chance when the health and safety executive asked him to help publish this booklet promoting the safe use of trollies and so decrease in a biud .
4	This is Tuesday and it would have been appropriate for him to have raised this matter then .
5	He remembered a swamp draining into a lagoon some distance to the right of the highway — the road must have been raised for him to have seen that distance .
6	The real pioneer of the Italian monodic style in Germany was one of his pupils , Johann Nauwach ( c. 1595–c. 1630 ) , who like him had spent some years in Italy .
7	No surprise that every single person who met him wanted to turn that meeting into an incident , an anecdote , an event .
8	After all , Mr Yeltsin and Mr Gorbachev before him have made more concessions to the western powers than any Russian leader since Lenin in 1918 accepted the Russo-German treaty of Brest-Litovsk .
9	He made to have another look at the distant diner .
10	Iago has led Othello to where he had predicted , caused the people he hates to destroy each other .
11	I asked John how he planned to do this shot and he said , ‘ Simple .
12	With the help of his mother and sister , he agreed to continue this work at home which would be set by the school and assessment centre jointly .
13	At the same time , communicating with Yeltsin behind Yazov 's back , he agreed to send some tanks to the White House .
14	Bishops Hall doing it nicely under Brad and it 's good to see him in the saddle today because he was offered the ride on Morley Street but he 'd already said yes and he 's a man of his word and he agreed to ride this horse .
15	Ms Morrell attempts damage limitation by telling her boss to keep his mouth shut and not rock the boat , but on he goes collecting more enemies and being let down by erstwhile friends .
16	He looked around him , as if he expected to see another presence there .
17	All the week the receipts had been unusually high , but this evening he expected to break all records .
18	I had written to Joe Ackerley about Dana , and how we were writing poems together , and he asked to see some examples of this unusual collaboration .
19	He had centre front stage , his voice projected forward over Therese 's , and he ceased to make any attempt to act out the plotted movements with her .
20	At one point he grew so angry he failed to blow any kind of a note on his horn ; he dashed it to the ground in a fury of petulance .
21	Guardian reader Peter John , who has holdings in Dumenil 's Swiss , French and Spanish funds , claims he failed to receive any dividends in June and November as he expected .
22	When he failed to promote any women into his first cabinet he insisted he would only appoint on merit .
23	When he failed to muster enough backing for a secret ballot Pawar announced his support for Rao who was then unanimously elected as leader on June 20. nation
24	Your dear brother left quite a few problems behind when he failed to take that corner .
25	There Tyndale wrote to urge him to avoid any discussion of the Sacraments , but he failed to take this advice and was convicted as a heretic precisely on this question and was burned .
26	Like his predecessors he failed to make any headway .
27	He admitted sending both packages .
28	And he longs to meet this woman 's need .
29	He tried to spot any spy-flies lurking in this foyer , little spies which so recently had been his own to command , till they were stolen .
30	Even when he tried to put this matter right , by putting his head forward and up , he was faced with an even greater difficulty because he saw again from the mirror that he was increasing the tension and pulling his head back even further .