Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He recalls the efforts he made to acquire a p-38 : ‘ A Lightning that I had been pondering about for some time was owned by a chap called Merril Wayne , who ran an airline called Wayne Airlines up in Anchorage , Alaska . |
| 2 | almost every he pass he made had an incorrect address — when back at the side he looked somehow better — a good thing to get £500,000 for the guy if plays like that all the time . |
| 3 | Why does he want to marry a white woman ? |
| 4 | On 26 June he records shooting a wattle-cheeked honeyeater ‘ on the ranges near the Upper Torrens ’ ; he ‘ killed a Bittern on the 1st July near the Murray , above Gleeson 's Station ’ ; collected red throats ‘ about forty miles north of Lake Alexandrina ’ ; spotted a white-eyebrowed pomatorhinus ‘ near the bend of the river Murray ’ ( perhaps it was this remark that led some to guess that it was the great west bend to which Gould referred ) ; and shot a pink robin in ‘ a deep ravine under Mount Lofty ’ ( this was the last time an example of this species , Petroica rodinogaster was seen in South Australia , although one or two reliable observers said they had seen specimens in the area many years previously ) . |
| 5 | L. MacNeill Weir , in his book The Tragedy of Ramsay MacDonald , was the main critic , suggesting that MacDonald was an opportunist , a liberal rather than a socialist , that he schemed to ditch the Labour government , and betrayed the Labour Party . |
| 6 | I refused to believe that he chanced to have the same name as the previous tenants of the cottage — unless he himself was the previous tenant , and had for some reason returned to Moila without wanting to be known ? |
| 7 | He chanced to find an identical skull in Cambridge which , to his surprise , came not from Egypt but from the Chatham Islands , near New Zealand . |
| 8 | So he swooped to catch the falling child , drive away the wolf or restore the horse — all these miracles being depicted in small panels round the central figure of the Saint . |
| 9 | ’ He turns to face the elder policeman . |
| 10 | Now they got much the same thing for the dinner , but if the prisoner had got any money of his own , and if he cared to contribute an extra sixpence he got a hot meal at midday . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't know how he planned to explain the false name and why he was living at Pen House , ’ said Holmes . |
| 12 | Now he planned to do the same with the female cub , who had been given the most unleopard-like name of Harriet . |
| 13 | He planned to catch the 6 pm flight back to Munich . |
| 14 | On the Monday he phoned bosses back in England to tell them he would not be coming back , and that he planned to build a new life with their money . |
| 15 | After dinner he planned to make a proper start on sorting out the contents of the house . |
| 16 | If he ran into Eleanor he planned to blame the general editor and make soothing noises . |
| 17 | He ignores a , a lot of things that go on but even he passed comment the other the other week when we was at bingo when we were coming out he said er he says she 's horrible to Sam that sometimes ! |
| 18 | ALAN Hickman from Derbyshire became worried about the advice he was receiving over his pension transfer when he realised that each expert he consulted recommended a different course of action . |
| 19 | He agreed to do the first voyage there and back before receiving payment , as long as Ralemberg agreed to underwrite the voyage , using his house as collateral . |
| 20 | Charles , who had a taste for mechanical devices , commissioned Gionallo Torriano of Cremona to repair it , but owing to corrosion he found that this was impossible and he agreed to make a similar instrument . |
| 21 | Terry Long was always a welcome visitor to Selhurst Park , but it was an enormous pleasure to everyone connected with Crystal Palace when he agreed to make a public return here in October 1984 to give recognition to Jim Cannon , who is the one man to have played more games for us than Terry himself did . |
| 22 | He agreed to summon the Scottish parliament , that it should consent to Mary 's marriage with the dauphin Francis and to her departure for France , and that Scottish castles should be handed over to the French — as indeed Dunbar and Blackness were . |
| 23 | He could see the horizon just above the shining disc of his propeller , and he fought to drag the leaden nose up to it . |
| 24 | Like almost all other ministers he avoided visiting the defeated South as such a trip would not have fitted the received view of America which both hosts and visitors wished to retain . |
| 25 | He invented the morning press conference for the purpose of calling an afternoon press conference to say he expected to make a shattering announcement later in the day . ’ |
| 26 | He applied to join the Oratorian Congregation newly formed by John Henry Newman ( later cardinal , q.v. ) , but was turned down in March 1847 . |
| 27 | And presently revulsion gave way to indifference : he ceased to see the flaunted female bodies of advertisements and magazines because they had nothing to do with him , they were irrelevant . |
| 28 | It was not Srikkanth 's day : he recovered to open the Indian reply , but was unhappy at being given out caught behind off McDermott ( Healy 's 100th Test catch ) , indicating that the ball hit his forearm . |
| 29 | But he recovered to plant a glorious chip over Kelly from 20 yards . |
| 30 | The bungled pit stop dropped Hill from second on Prost 's tail to fourth and , although he recovered to grab a brilliant third place behind the Frenchman , it was difficult for him to hide his disappointment . |