Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If 'e 'ad called the doctor then I say that no-one dies ! ’ |
| 2 | ‘ This copper said 'e used ter be on the Tunnel beat an' 'e 'd seen a bloke who looked like me knockin' around wiv 'em . |
| 3 | Manoeuvres to block him failed to stop the Assembly endorsing his claim to form a government , and he went ahead on 23 June 1960 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Around him lay scattered the festering remains of half a dozen meals . |
| 8 | So me and him struggled to throw the thing out of the window . |
| 9 | Wing Commander J.M. Gilchrist had been appointed Bursar and Clerk to the Governors in 1962 , and to him had fallen the task — in addition to his ordinary duties — of arranging the financing of the numerous building programmes . |
| 10 | And around him had arisen the sight — seen so often on his travels — of the hundreds of thousands of vagrants , beggar men , women and children , now roving over the richest island in the world like tormented souls in irredeemable exile … |
| 11 | The splendour of the fourteenth century fan vaulting soaring elegantly , anciently , above him had made no comment . |
| 12 | If he 'd been on the train and had walked with the other racegoers towards the station , Filmer could have seen him through the window … and just the sight of him had caused the tensing of the neck muscles … and if Filmer had n't yet paid him for whatever … then he would come back to the train … |
| 13 | He wished that one of the journalists who 'd interviewed him had expressed the substance of his life and work in such up-market , romantic terms . |
| 14 | She was herself the daughter of a rabbi , whose father and grandfather before him had upheld the light of Jewish learning in their part of Poland . |
| 15 | John Cleese and Eric Idle who had both been at Cambridge with him had had no idea . |
| 16 | He said that , during the 20-minute journey to the quarry at Furnace on Loch Fyne , a lit cigarette had been used to burn him on the back of the neck , he had been struck constantly , and as the car travelled at speeds up to 70mph , the man beside him had opened the door and told him to take his chances and jump . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He made to shine the torch into her face , but she pushed his hand down . |
| 19 | As he made to leave the chamber , Deems said , ‘ If you perceive that the Emperor does not trust you , why continue faithful ? ’ |
| 20 | He made to close the door . |
| 21 | Look at the mess he made making a cup of tea . |
| 22 | Author of The Road to Serfdom , published — impossibly ill-timed — on the eve of Labour 's great victory in 1945 , he lived to see the crumbling of communism ; the destruction , as no doubt he saw it , of collectivism 's inner citadel . |
| 23 | Deteriorating eyesight compelled him to give up painting in 1975 , but he lived to see the beginning of a major revival of his reputation . |
| 24 | He lived to tell the tale . |
| 25 | None of the items he checked affected the probe — though he gave the chess set a suspicious glance — until he moved to the wall hangings . |
| 26 | Some time afterwards he chanced to see a hobby-horse being ridden along a nearby road , and was struck with the notion of making one for himself . |
| 27 | I replied to him that if he cared to submit the List to any representative group of Jews , he would hear their ‘ no ’ from Downing Street to Golders Green . |
| 28 | Outside in London , if he cared to leave the flat , he would have found an atmosphere , an edge , that any man of twenty-five with money in his pocket and an afternoon like that behind him should have delighted in . |
| 29 | The following night the moon would be full and he planned to take a force of eighteen jeeps directly on to the airfield in two columns and shoot up anything they found . |
| 30 | Cover up … how he planned to burn the evidence . |