Example sentences of "he [verb] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Similarly , within ATE areas testing could be supported by intelligent diagnostic information systems capable of guidance and support to the test engineer helping him assimilate complex failure history data and useful testing procedures . |
2 | Eva also insisted on Dad improving the service : she got him to consult esoteric library books early in the morning before work and asked him at breakfast , in a voice which must once have enquired of Charlie if he 'd done his technical-drawing homework , ‘ And what did you learn this morning ? ’ |
3 | Wimbledon manager Joe Kinnear knows his club must keep producing youngsters like two-goal Neill Ardley to enable him to sell big name men and compensate for the low income produced by attendances like the pathetic 3,386 for this game . |
4 | Police were called but arrived too late to stop him mugging 60-year-old Rose McDevitt , who was knocked to the floor and robbed of her handbag as she waited for the lift . |
5 | The levy due on hundred-per-cent woollen goods made him remember other customs regulations , and then instantly of his contraband Sam . |
6 | A shopkeeper whose premises have been smashed open by ramraiders twice in three weeks says his local council have stopped him installing protective security shutters . |
7 | These were believed to be an increase in the Amir 's constitutional powers , to allow him to veto National Assembly decisions , and a reduction in immunity for Assembly members . |
8 | What 's the betting this McCoy 's running a big racket , paying Charlie Hatton to leave his lorry unattended and paying him to keep other lorry drivers occupied whenever the chance presents itself ? |
9 | Then , influenced by his aunt Naomi Treen ( née Cubitt ) , a teacher at an elementary school practising Pestalozzian methods , he obtained in 1851 the post of master at Holy Trinity National School , Lambeth , where the progressive vicar , the Revd James Gillman , allowed him to pioneer revolutionary teaching methods in natural history and to set up a school museum . |
10 | If the Minister genuinely believes in the equitable distribution of the social fund , may I invite him to review cold weather payments , because the senior citizens in my area of east Cleveland have lost out during the past week ? |
11 | For instance , a child may inherit a predisposition to schizophrenia , which causes him to have certain childhood adjustment problems , which in turn bring about unusual family communication styles . |
12 | Simon gained valuable site experience which helped him to gain chartered engineer status . |
13 | He made substantial tax cuts , reducing the top rate of individual tax from 50 to 30 per cent and corporate tax from 45 to 40 per cent . |
14 | He made persistent phone calls to Lynsey , visited her home , invited her to drinks and dinner — and trapped her in his surgery when he was alone . |
15 | He made natural history sound and feel like something central and poetic ; not an activity for Scoutmasters and a butt for Punch jokes . |
16 | He refereed international bridge matches ; and was goalkeeper for the Casuals when they won the AFA Cup final in 1913 . |
17 | However , he mistook certain war-time conditions in the main belligerent states as being irreversible changes . |
18 | Then to our surprise he produced CAST IRON plate ‘ No. 2 ’ off Carlisle , and if that were not enough , the wooden trespass board that appears in the well known photograph of ‘ No. 1 ’ near Horderley . |
19 | We went through days with him when he met African trades union seminars and black nationalist leaders ; Cabinet Ministers ; some of the most shell-backed Right-wingers and some of the most outspoken men of the Left . |
20 | Pawar began a four-day official visit to the USA on April 8 during which he met key US officials including Defence Secretary Richard Cheney . |
21 | What is certain , however , is that around the tail end of the '80s he met fellow Skin victim Jarboe , signed their other band Swans to a disastrous one-album major deal and cheered up . |
22 | What is certain , however , is that around the tail end of the '80s he met fellow Skin victim Jarboe , signed their other band Swans to a disastrous one-album major deal and cheered up . |
23 | During his US stay , Menem , accompanied by Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo , also visited Houston , New York and Miami ( where he met Cuban exile leaders ) . |
24 | Hopes were raised on June 28 when French President François Mitterrand , immediately after the EC summit in Lisbon [ see pp. 38942-43 ] , unexpectedly paid a six-hour visit to Sarajevo , where he met Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic and Radovan Karadzic , leader of the Bosnian Serbian Democratic Party ( SDS ) . |
25 | Through his training , he met Olympic javelin gold medallist Tessa Sanderson . |
26 | She was referred to the town 's main fire station where he met sub-officer John Yoxall and had the bracket cut off with a small hacksaw . |
27 | ‘ He was a thirty-two-year-old widower when he met nineteen-year-old Lucia Lucchesi and fell deeply in love with her . |
28 | He won his first round match in the United States Open , putting Flushing Meadow into a party mood as he whipped Brazilian Jaime Oncins 6-1 , 6-2 , 6-3 . |
29 | He avoided other Lake Tourists and yet , if caught , he would be as warm as an old friend . |
30 | Also addressing the Dolphin Centre rally was Darlington-born Tom Sawyer , deputy secretary of NUPE , who won a roar from the crowd when he announced new opinion poll findings giving Labour a six point lead . |