Example sentences of "he [verb] the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark Roe explains the swing change that helped him win the recent Lancome Trophy . |
| 2 | But I understand Graeme Souness could use him to replace the injured David Burrows . |
| 3 | Never fully attuned to the intricate histories of football , the New York team sided a former Argentinian international , and instructed him to mark the mercurial Johnson out of the game . |
| 4 | In order to prove it was not composed of ‘ patsies ’ , as Reagan put it , the United States insisted that Arafat repeat specifically worded concessions concerning terrorism and recognition of Israel , and when he failed to do so verbatim , it required him to repeat the authorized US version . |
| 5 | He plays the evil Dr Arcane , whose daughter loves the Thing , and it is painful to watch so many bad lines falling on untilled soil . |
| 6 | He succeeded the charismatic Takako Doi , who had announced her resignation in June , in the aftermath of the party 's poor showing in the local elections . |
| 7 | It is a clear indication of the quality of Vic Rouse 's goalkeeping ability that he succeeded the great Roy Bailey between the Palace posts , then went on to set up a club record 238 Football League goalkeeping appearances ( since exceeded only by the invincible John Jackson ) , and that it then took another goalkeeper destined for the 1st Division in Bill Glazier to oust him . |
| 8 | His first destination was the headquarters of the ANC in Lusaka ( Zambia ) , where he met the exiled ANC executive committee , and other leaders of the Frontline states and Commonwealth representatives , and was greeted with the ceremony normally reserved for heads of state . |
| 9 | In Final Analysis Richard Gere plays Isaac Barr , a San Francisco psychiatrist , who thought he was in full control of his life until he met the stunning Heather Evans played by Kim Basinger . |
| 10 | He met the old T'ang 's eyes , a look of understanding passing between them that escaped the young Prince 's notice . |
| 11 | By 1914 , when he appointed the aged I.L . |
| 12 | India and Pakistan were hotly disputing ownership of the 1,500-mile Indus River in 1968 when he announced the UN-sponsored Indus Basin project to share water supplies for new power stations . |
| 13 | Later he became the New Yorker 's music critic and went on to be music editor of the Listener . |
| 14 | Tshwete was a supporter of rugby unification and he got the old South African Rugby Football Board and the South African Rugby Union together at the conference table ’ , said French . |
| 15 | He notified the Royal Greenwich Observatory , which confirmed the discovery and cabled the central clearing house for astronomical telegrams at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts . |
| 16 | Short made a terrible start in game one when , playing black , he tried the dubious Budapest gambit in an attempt to catch Karpov off guard . |
| 17 | When Cecil Beaton went to photograph the Royal Family in 1960 , he found the eleven-year-old Prince Charles overawed by the atmosphere , ‘ as if awaiting a clout from behind , or for his father to tweak his ear or pull the tuft of hair at the crown of his head ’ . |
| 18 | COMEDIAN Ken Dodd will put a smile on the faces of patients and staff when he visits the Royal Liverpool University Hospital next Wednesday to open the Women 's Royal Voluntary Service tea bar , which has undergone a £40,000 facelift . |
| 19 | Paul Weir won the title in May when he stopped the Mexican Hernando Martinez at the Scottish Exhibition Centre in only his sixth professional fight . |
| 20 | Patsy Gallacher went on to play for Celtic for 15 years and scored the winning goal in their famous cup-winning side of 1925 , when he beat the entire Dundee defence and somersaulted into the net with the ball between his feet . |
| 21 | The second set unfolded in much the same way , with the Herts player — who recently scored another major success when he beat the nationally-ranked Neil Dyson in a county friendly — rally from 4–5 down to hold his serve and make it all-square , before breaking Ainley 's service in the following set to go 6–5 ahead . |
| 22 | He mentioned the experienced David Gower and Allan Lamb , plus the promise of Graham Thorpe and Mark Lathwell — as well as Ramprakash . |
| 23 | As ‘ agent of the army ’ his name reappeared in the Stationers ' Company register during 1653–5 , when he entered The Perfect Diurnall and several pamphlets . |
| 24 | Formerly of Glasgow Rangers , he captained the Cup-winning Bradford City side of 1911 , but an ‘ incompatibility of temper ’ led to his transfer for £1,400 . |
| 25 | He says the real Shakespeare was no more than the man who looked after the horses and the costumes . |
| 26 | Has he seen the excellent Glasgow Evening Times article of 20 November which highlights that serious problem in Scotland ? |
| 27 | Far from being dead , Detroit is getting a bit too much for flamboyant city police chief Gil Hill , who 's better known for his movie-acting skills — he played the dour Detroit police chief in Beverly Hills Cop I and Il . |
| 28 | ‘ The brigade marched on time , sir , ’ he told the worried Ford , ‘ and no one can expect more of us . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I have not felt so well for a long time , ’ he told the ever-comforting Jones , ‘ and shall be tempted to be very vulgar in my speech . ’ |
| 30 | Privately he condemned the benign Mrs Crump to a slow spit . |