Example sentences of "he [verb] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , of course , is very unfair : it is just not reasonable for me to flounce about in the bathroom for hours and then make a man feel inadequate when I catch him using my dental floss. or to bellow in disgust when I find out he blow-dries his hair . |
| 2 | ‘ It is not an exaggeration to assume that as many as 100 women could have been abused by him using his evil methods , ’ one detective told TODAY . |
| 3 | One detective said : ‘ It is not an exaggeration to assume that during his career as many as a hundred women could have been abused by him using his evil methods . |
| 4 | The threat of another war only made it more urgent for him to preserve his symbolic status , so that he could be the French people 's supreme recourse should catastrophe strike once again . |
| 5 | But it is hoped that in doing so , it will also help him to continue his untiring work for the Third World and enrich the lives of those poor people , particularly in Africa . |
| 6 | He said look you can have these expensive antibiotics , they were intensive ones , said look you know I do n't want him to lose his bloody foot just give me some antibiotic ! |
| 7 | I understand that has not been invited to speak to the Committee yet but perhaps you might consider this at the time of him producing his annual report next April . |
| 8 | ‘ I want to show him all the beautiful things trees , flowers and birds but most of all I want him to see his big sister , Katie . ’ |
| 9 | But perhaps she ought to have made sure she told him to see his own doctor as soon as he got home ? |
| 10 | It probably wo n't be long , before Kenan 's nagging John to take him to see his favourite football team . |
| 11 | It probably wo n't be long , before Kenan 's nagging John to take him to see his favourite football team . |
| 12 | His search for a style of living which would enable him to cultivate his contemplative gifts led him to equate , perhaps sometimes confuse , an interior state with the external mode of achieving it . |
| 13 | Joe Lydon 's impressive form at full-back , combined with an ability to play anywhere in the three-quarters , sees him make his third tour , while the man for whom he has deputised in recent weeks , Steve Hampson , goes on his first tour . |
| 14 | I was trying desperately to be unselfish , to let him make his own decision , to be himself . |
| 15 | Major Gregg Donahue ( Marshall Thompson ) takes a Vietnamese guide to help him locate his younger brother , a doctor who is being held captive by the Viet Cong at an old French fort . |
| 16 | His cider sodden mind was causing him to treat his beloved motorcycle in a way he would never have dreamed of a few hours before . |
| 17 | Originally a resident of Celtic Crescent , he had found that even with the occupancy of two adjoining houses there it was becoming impossible for him to accommodate his growing family along with the near and distant relations from Dublin and England who availed of his hospitality in a constant procession . |
| 18 | FRANZ Klammer , one of the world 's greatest downhill skiers , has celebrated his 39th birthday in the Colorado ski resort of Copper Mountain , where the resort went to extraordinary lengths to enable him to indulge his other passion , golf . |
| 19 | Sir , — When Malcolm Rifkind was made Minister of Transport I wrote a letter to him congratulating him on his appointment , expressing the hope that he would be a success in his job and asking him to instruct his Civil Servants to concentrate their efforts more on the railways of this country rather than on the roads . |
| 20 | Sadly , Maxim remembered how long — and how much luck — it had taken for him to spot his own pack . |
| 21 | Exhorting him to forgive his personal wrongs for the sake of his own greater glory , she sings an ariette about the dangers of being inflexible . |
| 22 | And the one-time headmaster of St Mary 's Grammar School in Darlington says the chance to work again with children prompted him to accept his new job . |
| 23 | In Harry 's case , a pre-retirement course could have been of great value in encouraging him to accept his impending retirement and helping him decide how to redirect his energies before he finished working . |
| 24 | All eyes turned to see him twisting his triangular hat as if that action alone was holding him together ; his face white and despairing . |
| 25 | Soon as he injects her with the antidote to polywhatnot , she 'll leave him to find his own way home . ’ |
| 26 | Thus it was possible for him to find his own men in the army which he was attacking . |
| 27 | SANKUKAI Some years after Tani established his style , history repeated itself and his senior student , Yoshinao Nanbu , left him to found his own school , developed from shukokai , called ‘ sankukai ’ . |
| 28 | The counsellor has to discover to what extent these feelings are present within the individual , at what point such feelings have arisen in his life , and to persuade him to re-consider his real needs and feelings , as opposed to socially induced attitudes about the quality and extent of his involvement in social life . |
| 29 | He met Yves Saint Laurent , then at Dior , and helped him found his own fashion house . |
| 30 | She did not know what to do with Rupert so had asked him to refill her hot water bottle . |