Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manoeuvres to block him failed to stop the Assembly endorsing his claim to form a government , and he went ahead on 23 June 1960 . |
| 2 | Indeed , an upbringing which gave Alexander II many qualifications for the tasks which confronted him failed to conceal the fact that he was not very gifted at all . |
| 3 | William Walker , an official from the State Department , remembered seeing him rush to catch a flight to Central America , having just got off a flight from Europe , unkempt , a flight-bag over his shoulder . |
| 4 | Section 320 Companies Act 1985 provides that if a director of a company or its parent or holding company , or a person connected with him , enters into a contract with the company , under which the director or person connected with him agrees to purchase the company or assets ( other than cash ) of the company exceeding a certain value , then the contract must be approved in a general meeting by ordinary resolution . |
| 5 | Laud too was the King 's evil genius in persuading him to try to enforce the use in Scotland of a prayer book similar to that of the Church of England . |
| 6 | The clothes he wore , the cut of his hair , even the subtly elegant watch on his wrist , everything about him seemed to indicate a man who had been brought up to take wealth for granted . |
| 7 | His long bushy eyebrows , mingling with his coarse black hairline , made him appear to have no forehead at all . |
| 8 | This for him came to symbolize the futility of the war , which seemed to be fought for no discernible purpose , between opponents whose essential common humanity was denied by the mass slaughter . |
| 9 | His swing was taut and abbreviated as , despite what his golfing mind was telling him ( swing slow , swing smoothly through the ball ) , the darker side of his mind made him try to steer the ball . |
| 10 | ‘ Stories about him having to get a taxi home are complete nonsense , ’ Berlin said . |
| 11 | will prevent him having to consider a mass of trivial complaints where it is unlikely that criminal charges would ever be brought but there has been some concern that the chief officer of police is given a discretion whether or not to refer complaints which disclose criminal conduct to the D.P.P. , although this decision is of course supervised . |
| 12 | So me and him struggled to throw the thing out of the window . |
| 13 | ‘ We 'll see how far it takes you when you watch him try to clear the gatehouse the way he charged through a whole company of men that day , sword flashing right and left , trying to get to the King . |
| 14 | In one case an immigrant who was present in Britain was denied judicial review of a decision not to give him leave to enter the country because of the existence of a right of appeal which could only be exercised if the immigrant left Britain . |
| 15 | We have urged him to legislate to reverse the Greenwich judgment , so that priority is again given to children of our borough . |
| 16 | If the Queen judged that another party leader could form a government with majority support ( say , Mr Kinnock with the support of the Liberal Democrats ) , she would be entitled to ask him to attempt to form a government . |
| 17 | It was n't enough for him to have to learn a series of speeches that no one else was expected to begin to comprehend , but he was also deputed to be Dame Edith 's guardian angel . |
| 18 | He saw Goodenache 's face react in surprise as he recognized Adam , saw him start to close the door again . |
| 19 | He jabbed the Englishman twice in the ribs again , watched him fight to control the pain , watched his victim 's eyes drift back into focus . |
| 20 | Mueller is the oldest , the most successful and probably the best known of all currently active downhillers , so the sight of him volunteering to do the donkey work in a one-horse FIS race was enough to humble me into removing my skis and following him , along with 138 other racers ! |
| 21 | This had a marvellous calming effect on him and made him determined to do the job right , especially as it was Molly 's first time . |
| 22 | Cornford 's individualism caused him to refuse to join the Officer Training Corps . |
| 23 | But it was bigoted political obstinacy , not courage , which induced him to refuse to devalue the pound . |
| 24 | It is believed he may have left home of his own choice as he did take some of his clothes , but there have been no reports of him trying to leave the country . |
| 25 | John MacGregor : If he becomes Chancellor , cartoonists will have him trying to make the deficit disappear |
| 26 | And every day Allan and Barbara and the doctors treating him have to face the dilemma of keeping alive the boy they feel would be better off dead . |
| 27 | It was , after all , the first letter and did n't things like how you addressed him have to climb a kind of ladder ? |
| 28 | And the team who saved him returned to meet the family again today in rather happier circumstances . |
| 29 | Yet when he made to take a line of stones he had surrounded from the board , the boy placed his hand over Tuan 's , stopping him , lifting his hand so that he might study the position , his face creased into a frown , as if trying to take in what he had done wrong . |
| 30 | He made to shine the torch into her face , but she pushed his hand down . |