Example sentences of "he [verb] and [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Towards the end of the second act , the door beside him opened and a woman slipped in to the back of the hall . |
| 2 | 1–4 Malcolm MacKinnon , an old man , was lost in a storm between Bridgend and Mulindry where he lived and a week later had not been found . |
| 3 | Lost with his entire Lancaster crew on his 49th sortie , this is his story , the way that he lived and the war that he fought . |
| 4 | Then you come along , and you tell me not only who made it but what his name was , how many eggs he laid and the colour of his tentacles . |
| 5 | ‘ She was lucky not to be hurt and so was the driver of the vehicle , considering the distance he skidded and the strength with which he had to apply his brakes , ’ Mrs. Brooks added . |
| 6 | And he tells him the story and he goes and the man threw me out of the taxi . |
| 7 | United still piling men forward winning everything in mid-field , and in the sixteenth minute Les Phillips clearing the box , he tried to square the ball back , but a great scramble ensued in the Charlton goalmouth , goalkeeper Bolder was injured , he recovered and the ball was eventually hacked away . |
| 8 | The books he read and the music he listened to took on profounder significance than ever before . |
| 9 | He looks and the bear 's hanging off it at the side , grrr ! on the window and the man goes aargh ! and the man runs off and he gets on he gets on an aeroplane the aeroplane and he 's safe . |
| 10 | Perhaps understandably , in view of the problems he encountered and the opposition of some members of the county council , his concern was to establish prestigious links between village colleges and the University of Cambridge in the provision of adult education rather than with the much less regarded WEA . |
| 11 | The Truth , which presumably Plato 's truthful man , like Gandhi himself , feels the need to live in accordance with , to abide by , to hold fast to , and to uphold , is that which determines the way in which he lives and the spirit in which he travels . |
| 12 | First , because the sponsors of the bureau 's expenditure are likely to appreciate the benefits of extra expenditure without responsibility for the costs , and second , because ‘ advocacy of spending programs tends to he concentrated and the opposition is diffused ’ . |
| 13 | He stopped and the snow began to drift over the toes of his boots . |
| 14 | He shouted and an orderly came in . |
| 15 | Mr Strouthos can offer hope to the empty souls and draw his magic circle of exclusion where he wants and the rest of us are free to disbelieve in any or all of his wares . |
| 16 | ‘ He thinks he can do what he wants and the rest of the world should line up behind him and follow . |
| 17 | Well do you know , when I met , I , I 'm meeting old chaps through this very excellent marriage agency , I 've never expected any thing like it , they are marvellous , and the sent me a nice old lad , but I knew I was onto a looser when he said , of course I go to my daughter-in-law every Saturday for lunch , she absolutely insists because she says , she wants to make sure that I 'm eating properly , now this is a very healthy old man with a very good income who could afford to buy any food he wants and the fact of the matter is his that he 's son is probably not , he does n't want to upset his old dad , and it 's handy to have him to come on Saturday for lunch and be done with it as it were , but I thought surely Bernard your own sense would tell you that nobody want 's their old father and father-in-law every Saturday of their life , for lunch oh . |
| 18 | and he was saying to me er , he says Jean I says I live and learn and er he says , you know when he says , he talks through his nose , he says you know if they had 've left Sandy Row the way it was and just put bathrooms in and he says and the way it is |
| 19 | He said then she can put her capital he says and the interest on the capital |
| 20 | Glenn Hoddle says that playing at Wembley can be like making your debut … the sight of the twin towers still gives you a buzz but they 've got to forget all about that and get on and win the game … it 's a wonderful place to play he says and the pitch should suit Swindon but they 've got to concentrate on the job in hand |
| 21 | Some of his difference obviously came from the milieu from which he came and the milieux — there were a half dozen of them — in which he moved . |
| 22 | Then the seas settled a little , and a boat came , carrying a crew he recognised and a Skyeman he knew well , but who would not meet his eye . |
| 23 | He turned and a figure appeared from behind the shed . |
| 24 | He turned and the girl who had just come in let out a little scream . |
| 25 | There was no pain in any of that at all he recalls and no fear . |
| 26 | He nodded and the bookie nodded back , his eyes everywhere as he scanned the other faces , looking for takers amid the din . |
| 27 | When he heard the crack he ducked and the lash cut the air above his head . |
| 28 | The Star and the Daily Mail continued the search for female associates of The Fox with the headlines THE SAD MOTHER HE BETRAYED and THE MOTHER WHO CAN NOT BELIEVE respectively . |
| 29 | This was possible because someone can be tried once and convicted once for every separate offence he commits and an offence under section 14 is committed every time someone reads the brochure — since a false statement is made every time it is communicated to someone . |
| 30 | Once Kaptan turned to look at me , his eyes full of appeal , but he stumbled and the Corporal pulled him roughly up . |