Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it raised the question of whether , if he plays again , Syd 's body will allow him to bowl with the same rampaging style . |
| 2 | But Rostov 's experience of the Empire had not prepared him to find at the same time a complete absence of the poor and underprivileged . |
| 3 | Unfortunately I ca n't imagine any chairman introducing measures that would make it harder for him to flog of a few prised assets in order to raise some hard cash . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ I need him to play in the same role as Mick Tait , who starts a suspension after Tuesday 's game against Stockport . |
| 5 | I assumed it was coincidence , seeing him in Wexford , and then finding him staying in the same hotel . |
| 6 | The eagerness with which the boy sought for knowledge , however , so impressed his schoolmaster that he continued to teach him without a fee ; then , through Hooker 's uncle who was Chamberlain of Exeter , he persuaded John Jewel , Bishop of Salisbury , to pay for him to study at the latter 's old college of Corpus Christi at Oxford . |
| 7 | I asked for one ticket and paid for it , then I watched him ask for the same and fish down inside his carrier bag and bring out a ten pound note . |
| 8 | They had declared at his accession , they had repeated often since , that they desired him to reign upon the selfsame terms as his predecessors ; and yet they made him aware , whenever it was needful to ask for a grant of money , that in fact he stood upon ground subtly changed , and must ask as a favour what had been Richard 's unquestioned right . |
| 9 | MacGregor has the advantage of breadth of experience in Government , especially as Chief Secretary to the Treasury , a post that won him praise from the former Chancellor , Nigel Lawson , whatever that is worth these days . |
| 10 | For him playing in an All Ireland senior final seemed further away than ever before . |
| 11 | Bondholder Erica Bachman told the court : ‘ Let him live in the same misery he brought upon his victims . ’ |
| 12 | She sets out the details of how she feels the patient should be handled , so that the carers and everyone else involved will all help him to move in the same way . |
| 13 | Shufflebotham watched him work for a few moments . |
| 14 | Many of the pieces were purchased by Dubosc in Japan where he lived for the latter part of his life and much of his collection is now in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco . |
| 15 | If challenged to justify why blacks are struck from the jury , prosecutors offer the most ridiculous reasons — ‘ he looked dumb ’ , ‘ he lived in the same part of town as the defendant ’ ( most blacks live in the same part of town ) , ‘ he was a mason and I was worried about masonic links ’ ( the prospective juror was a stone mason by profession ) . |
| 16 | Huss is remembered by a street named after him ( the Hussenstrasse ) and by his effigy on the house where he lived in the same street . |
| 17 | He lived in the same house near Henley on Thames from 1935 , and remained inspired by English country scenes , like St Matthews near Lechlade and classic buildings like the Oxford buildings ensuring that his links with this region remain strong . |
| 18 | He lived in the same house near Henley on Thames from 1935 , and remained inspired by English country scenes , like St Matthews near Lechlade and classic buildings like the Oxford buildings ensuring that his links with this region remain strong . |
| 19 | Here , in a role that might have better suited Peter Sellers , or , more authentically , Alberto Sordi , he goes through a few variations on Ben Braddock and Jason Fister , the agent in his first Italian misadventure . |
| 20 | ‘ I am taking you to Jaén , ’ he announced after a few miles . |
| 21 | In his later life he became for a few months nearly as famous as Ramsey , though in a different context . |
| 22 | ‘ Are there servants in the house ? ’ he asked in the same low voice . |
| 23 | ‘ She 's dead too ? ’ he asked in the same cold , interrogative voice . |
| 24 | ‘ So how , then , do you propose we get to know each other ? ’ he asked in the same soft tone . |
| 25 | In the passage , he refers to the same combination of righteousness and giving the honour to God : |
| 26 | turn the crane round one way then the other and he got on the same lever but today they got , cos they got big lovely cranes where they stand there with four levers , four controls they 've got and it goes up and down . |
| 27 | After India , Poland , Munich , quick trip to Milan to see Berio and Eco , Paris , Queneau unwell , Butor planning book on Diabelli Variations , that man is an interpretative machine , Paz said , whatever you feed him he devours in a few months and a year later out comes a book . |
| 28 | ‘ And did you have no electricity ? ’ he probed in the same soft , lilting voice . |
| 29 | Although he qualified for a few regional events , in fact he was aiming much higher : he wanted a crack at the Open Championship . |
| 30 | Ditto those helpless Englishmen he skittled at the same venue two years earlier . |