Example sentences of "he [verb] [vb infin] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Young King had been pressing for permission to go on a pilgrimage to Compostella but Henry II , believing that this was just an excuse to get away from his watchful eye , had instead ordered him to help suppress the rebellion in Aquitaine . |
| 2 | When it was clear that the putsch had failed , Yeltsin made Grachev a hero and even proposed ( what was not yet properly in his gift ) the post of Soviet defence minister but its leaders were still at large , Yeltsin offered Grachev the future post of Russian defence minister , at the same time asking him to help arrest the plotters . |
| 3 | Walker was one of the most active members of the steering committee appointed in 1853 to establish the museum ; and as secretary of the British Association in 1859–61 he helped organize the Oxford meeting of 1860 , which inaugurated the museum but became famous for its discussion of Darwinism . |
| 4 | Until he died at Hawarden , Flintshire , 8 January 1933 he helped organize the St Deiniol 's Library of Henry , Baron Gladstone of Hawarden . |
| 5 | Between then and 1987 he helped grow the business from three hotels to 63 , becoming managing director of the hotel division in 1985 . |
| 6 | Graham Hill had already joined the Lotus team a year earlier and he helped lift the gloom by winning the world title in 1968 . |
| 7 | The brother of a Tory MP he helped negotiate the merger between the 2 Alliance partners and has chaired the committee running the new party 's annual conference ever since . |
| 8 | After his release in the mid-1970s he became a successful businessman and hotelier but later went into exile in Rome , where he helped finance the USC , returning to Somalia in late 1990 . |
| 9 | For three years he helped run the ID Gallery , Düsseldorf , which deals in contemporary art . |
| 10 | Then he let go the bow line , jumped on board , and ran aft to the cockpit . |
| 11 | He let go the clutch , lifted the front wheel and drove at the far bank , sand-spit dead ahead . |
| 12 | He still felt the movement of the van and the racing motion of the imagined mowing as , in his turbulent mind 's eye that would not release its trapped images , he let go the clutch on the handle and the motor mower leapt and jolted into movement . |
| 13 | But in his eagerness to demonstrate how wonderful the scheme was , he let drop the fact that in the event of his death Karen would inherit not only the house , fully paid-off under the terms of their endowment mortgage , but also a lump sum amounting to almost half a million pounds . |
| 14 | With a string of southern primaries due in March , Clinton remained the overall favourite for the nomination ; the conventional wisdom was that Tsongas could not generate sufficient appeal outside New England , and — given the 1988 fate of Michael Dukakis , a Massachusetts liberal ( also of Greek ethnic origin ) with whom he was frequently compared — would be unelectable as President even if he did secure the nomination . |
| 15 | The new evidence contradicted Bush 's claims that he was " out of the loop " of those who approved the Iran-contra operation and that , when he did discover the arms deal , he was unaware of its quid pro quo element in regard to the hostages . |
| 16 | But in the final hour he did deliver the goods , taking impromptu questions from the audience . |
| 17 | and what was taken away when , when he did break the rule , then you can work out what Jesus brought back |
| 18 | Zakrewski confirmed that he did expect the legislation to hurt its Polish acquisition , DHI , which currently expects to turn over $15m in the market this year , and added ‘ The result will be that there will be some preferred companies who have been doing assembly that will be supported , and they will grow and make a huge amount of money by reselling imports , not by assembling ; it 's a scandal . |
| 19 | For example , we do not know exactly how God made the world , but that does n't stop us believing that he DID make the world . |
| 20 | And the vicar did pick this up in his sermon and he did mention the Co-op Womens ' Guild and so we were very proud that we 'd been mentioned you see , you know . |
| 21 | If he did reach the end of the tunnel , did he wish to be seized naked , and branded ? |
| 22 | ‘ And he did do the alpha-fetoprotein screening this week ? ’ |
| 23 | He did locate the apple orchard from which Liebermann had composed a large picture , and he made a sketch of it . |
| 24 | He did visit the King 's College and Boswell name-dropped regarding the chapel , wherein lies the fifteenth-century Bishop Elphinstone , ‘ of whom I shall have occasion to write , ’ declared Bozzy , ‘ in my history of James IV of Scotland , the patron of my family ’ : Auchinleck was granted to the Boswells in return for favours rendered . |
| 25 | Apparently we must believe that ; at least there is no evidence that , if he did visit the collection , it impinged on his consciousness . |
| 26 | However , it is only fair to comment that he did place the lives of two of his most valuable NCOs in jeopardy as well as that of an officer whom he could ill afford to lose . |
| 27 | Meanwhile Gordon Dunkley was the toast of his local pub today , after all , he did thatch the roof and next door 's for that matter . |
| 28 | Yes , he did envy the affection that flowed between the boy and the old man . |
| 29 | Mr Toubon was one of the few Right-Wing politicians not to criticise the pyjama-striped columns of Daniel Buren erected in the Palais Royal by Mr Lang — but he did tell the artist they were not his favourite work . |
| 30 | Can now , can we actually move on a bit because , that has been very valuable what you said , but in fairness to Mr Maxwell it also has to be said does n't it that up until he stole these assets er this process of throwing organisations , peoples monies into a spin dryer and pulling them out of different sort of sequences was something he regularly did and we 've had witnesses to say how well he did manage the funds and how they grew , whether when they should sell stock and when they should n't sell stock and so on . |