Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He remembers asking Control why he was not also given a Thomas Leavy passport , and being told that , as there was enough time for him to go through normal channels to get one , a legitimate passport was always a safer bet . |
| 2 | The Frenchman 's dark aquiline features and unsmiling silences made him think of history-book pictures he 'd seen of the warrior heroes of ancient Greece and Rome , and the dismay he had felt at first when their car had struck the Annamese villager had increased his sense of awe . |
| 3 | Let Pool enter a few other minds , allow him to see through other eyes . ’ |
| 4 | This was one of the voyages in which the men of science were in charge , in that the point of the expedition was scientific ; often there had been frustration among scientists on voyages because the captain 's instructions , or his interpretation of them , did not let him stay at interesting places as long as they would have liked , or put enough boats and crews at their disposal . |
| 5 | Scott prepared a plan showing the relationship between the Foreign Office and the India Office which he sent to the Office of Works , who then on 17th January , 1859 instructed him to proceed with detailed drawings and prepare an approximate estimate of the cost of the new Foreign Office . |
| 6 | A major reason for a manager to understand something about statistics ( and to overcome his fear of numbers ) is to enable him to cope with other managers who use this method of proving a point or presenting a case . |
| 7 | Here Yakovlev met him surrounded by packed shelves and metals acquired with two months ' credit from the Tartar Republic . |
| 8 | It had been a blow to learn that he had gone away to spend Christmas with ‘ friends in the country ’ , and she imagined him surrounded by fascinating girls all more attractive than herself . |
| 9 | Managing director and major shareholder Peter Kemmis Betty has been appointed president — a non-executive position but one which will enable him to concentrate on editorial areas , chess and archaeology , in which he has a particular interest . |
| 10 | That sort of compartmentalization has been roundly denounced by Bob Jones University and those sections of American fundamentalism with which Paisley is most at home but we will never know if his religio-political system would permit such pragmatism because the constitutional issue so overrides everything else in Northern Ireland that there is no expectation or need for him to work with conservative Catholics . |
| 11 | Mr Packwood explained that Bess was now accustomed to him looking after young animals . |
| 12 | Their hatred of Wilson and their determination to undermine him had become legendary and earned him support in unexpected places . |
| 13 | Notice how his long harness lines are enabling him to sail with straight arms thereby keeping the rig upright . |
| 14 | Of course he needed to finance so improbable a research programme , so he sold his dragons to an Emperor , who had them minced up and served to him garnished with spit-roasted swallows ' tongues , at one of his less important banquets . |
| 15 | Lily could think only of him paying for little girls . |
| 16 | It 's a shame we wo n't see him racing on equal terms against Senna or Prost . ’ |
| 17 | He admits the scheme cramped his dress sense and made him sweat at official functions , but he hopes he has given the people of Hawick ‘ a sense of purpose , pride and awareness of the quality of world-class knitwear they produce ’ . |
| 18 | A 16-year-old youth with him escaped with minor injuries . |
| 19 | Yet some form of coercion or compulsion still resulted from what he considered it right for him to do in certain circumstances . |
| 20 | Because he was frail it was thought unwise to allow him to mix with other children or to spend time out of doors , and in consequence he became an avid reader . |
| 21 | Despite Mozart 's unkind comments on the failing vocal powers of the ageing Mannheim tenor Raaff , some instinct had warned him to keep on friendly terms with the singer , for whom he had written an aria on the way back from Paris . |
| 22 | But Pat remembers him saying to various children : ‘ Why do n't you lay down at the bottom of the swimming pool for half an hour ? ’ |
| 23 | Leonora watched him go with mixed feelings , not really sure she could make it to the bathroom alone , despite her fine words . |
| 24 | The purpose of the application is to allow him to die through natural causes which , it was thought , would take two weeks at most . |
| 25 | In what can only be regarded as the ultimate pilot 's ‘ Jim 'll fix it ’ fantasy come true , he persuaded the RAF to let him go through key parts of the four-year course that ends with a posting to an operational fighter squadron . |
| 26 | She could not imagine him chasing after other women once he had committed himself , could not imagine him being so insensitive as to leave a woman — his woman — wondering why he was so late arriving home , or whether he was coming home at all . |
| 27 | The fact that Nikon overreached himself was clearly exposed when Tsar Alexis forced him to withdraw from public affairs and subsequently had him deposed and replaced by a more pliant successor . |
| 28 | James Brown only owed Bance 8s 6d which , if he had paid earlier , he would not have found increased by 3s 6d costs which Judge William Furner ordered him to pay in monthly instalments of 4s on top of his debt . |
| 29 | She saw the crystal in front of him flicker with pale lights , and guessed that to him it was no pallid , ice-sheathed glimmer . |
| 30 | The court heard Bedworth , now a student at Edinburgh University studying artificial intelligence , spent hours sitting in his bedroom mastering a £200 Christmas present which helped him hack into hi-tech systems . |