Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 9 March , Coleman received a detailed encrypted message from Control setting up Operation Shakespeare , clearing his visit to Lebanon and instructing him to carry out the mission as Thomas Leavy , of Westinghouse Group W News . |
| 2 | The ‘ observer as participant ’ is known by the group under study to be an observer but has been accepted , temporarily , by the group and allowed temporary membership to enable him to carry out the research . |
| 3 | ‘ My earliest memory of my father is of him galloping down a field ; my last is of him reaching out to me like a helpless kitten ’ |
| 4 | There was a warmth and a charm about him that made for easy relations with most people , even the press , and they helped him build up the confidence that was needed all round . |
| 5 | The sight of him hanging on the Cross — are we really supposed to worship that , defeat and death ? |
| 6 | Brian came home because Daddy could n't stand the thought of him hanging off a cliff . |
| 7 | Leith swallowed hard , and knew , before the weakness of loving him , the weakness of wanting him battered down the rest of her defences , small though those defences were , that she had to appeal to that in him which she somehow knew would make him hate himself if he took her . |
| 8 | He 'd watch him dance around the room emitting stifled screams . |
| 9 | You have to get him wound down a bit , you have to do it , you know of a about half an hour or so ask him for the proper name ! |
| 10 | Patrick 's identification of the body enabled him to write out a death certificate , which he handed to PC Bartholomew with a note of the other details . |
| 11 | She almost begged him to write out the cheque . |
| 12 | However , she seemed to have forgotten all about it , because she told him to pull up a chair and warm himself by the fire . |
| 13 | Churchill 's ‘ overlords ’ certainly enabled him to slim down the Cabinet to sixteen members . |
| 14 | ‘ To see him driving around a track at 65mph is an incredible sight . |
| 15 | You could hear him shouting down the telephone halfway down the road . |
| 16 | I scowled at her and promised Dad that if the Germans had n't been sent packing by Christmas — I would leave the market and join up myself to help him finish off the job . |
| 17 | I 'm waiting on him picking up the machine . |
| 18 | ‘ He said he would be seeing Mr Moi in Bonn the following week , and asked if I would like him to set up a meeting with the president . |
| 19 | Again Ted demurred , but the Parliamentary Party 's unease over the procedure for new leadership elections caused him to set up a review committee under Alec Home . |
| 20 | Dutta said Guppy also asked him to set up an account in Geneva which he used to channel nearly £500,000 following the fake robbery and insurance payout . |
| 21 | A COLLEAGUE 'S 4½-year-old son has asked him to set up the video camera in front of the chimney on Christmas Eve to catch Santa on camera . |
| 22 | He joined the company in 1960 when asked him to set up the Company 's first electrical department . |
| 23 | ‘ And as she and Steve are together it 's not unlikely for him to pick up the phone if it rang . ’ |
| 24 | Although he was no relation to Charles , his surname had inspired him to pick up the pen . |
| 25 | AS UNITED were booed off the pitch , a supporter leaned into the director 's box and tried to thrust a £5 note into the hands of Amer Midani , urging him to buy out the chairman , Martin Edwards . |
| 26 | ‘ I looked for a marshall 's post , but the guy 's glove prevented him pulling out the safety pin in the extinguisher and I had to get out of the car and do it for him ! ’ |
| 27 | He 'll be all right , you do n't want him growing up a wimp . |
| 28 | I heard him pumping up the pressure and singing a folk song which began , ‘ We do n't smoke pot in Norwich City ’ . |
| 29 | The front page was taken up with the Leader 's activities : a photograph showed him pumping along a line of soldiers , his elbows thrust back , his chest puffed out , its outline blurred by hoary growth ; Doric-square , his famous chin jutted up and outwards , as he took a salute of volunteers for Africa at a little trot . |
| 30 | RVS was a master printer and an amateur pianist , the latter facility enabling him to help out a friend who was touring the Glasgow districts before the First World War with a projector and a bag full of short silent films . |