Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Search parties and helicopters were alerted after he failed to make a rendez-vous . |
| 32 | He failed to obtain a Card at Montpelier last year finishing 66th , but his outstanding amateur record has earned him a dozen or so sponsor 's invites . |
| 33 | Connolly , incisive and dangerous throughout , scored twice in the second half , and only referee Les Mottram can explain how he failed to complete a hat-trick . |
| 34 | That was the shock claim from Blades manager Dave Bassett last night after he failed to find a buyer for the 32-year old-winger . |
| 35 | He failed to find a seat at the next general election , but came in for the family borough a few weeks later , and acted as teller against his patron 's impeachment . |
| 36 | On 7 February 1968 he failed to meet a friend , who was worried enough to call at Adams 's house on El Roble in Beverly Hills to find out what had happened to him . |
| 37 | He spent so much time preening and posing and intimidating rivals and refusing to enter the competition before the bar became a danger to low-flying aircraft that he failed to clear a height . |
| 38 | He failed to win a cricket Blue at Oxford . |
| 39 | He has that ingrained self-confidence most commonly attributed to the grandest old Etonians , although he failed to win a scholarship there and ended up at Charterhouse . |
| 40 | He admitted receiving a total of DM500,000 since he became a double agent in 1982 . |
| 41 | Terence Dowse , 25 , of Hamilton Drive , Marske-by-Sea , Cleveland , was given a nine month suspended prison sentence by Teesside Crown Court after he admitted stealing a car and handling stolen goods . |
| 42 | He admitted confronting a woman on Wimbledon Common while completely naked apart from sunglasses . |
| 43 | RAF man fined : Graham Morris , 18 , of the RAF Regiment , RAF Catterick , near Richmond , was fined a total of £280 and ordered to pay £20 costs by Richmond magistrates yesterday after he admitted driving a car without insurance and with a defective light . |
| 44 | Paul George Wilson , 25 , was fined £50 by Durham magistrates after he admitted carrying a knife with a blade over 3in long . |
| 45 | A YOUTH was sentenced to four years ' detention yesterday after he admitted raping a girl at a birthday party . |
| 46 | Burglar sentenced : Jamie Raper , 20 , of Wharfe Way , Darlington , was yesterday sentenced at Teesside Crown Court to 12 months in a young offenders ' institution after he admitted burgling a house in Carmel Road North , Darlington . |
| 47 | Attempts by police to prevent protesters from other parts of the country from reaching the city lead to the death of a student on May 20 as he sought to evade a police cordon . |
| 48 | Subsequently , the victor fell so in love with Russia that in the late 1980s he sought to buy a flat in Moscow . |
| 49 | A GRANDFATHER was killed by a single punch as he tried to stop a gang of drunken teenagers ripping up his garden fence while he hosted a family barbecue . |
| 50 | Police say the 45year-old ex-steelworker was kicked and beaten to death when he tried to stop a gang of vandals near his home . |
| 51 | He tried to crack a grin , and his face felt like breaking plaster . |
| 52 | but in recognition of the pluralistic nature of the politics in modern capitalism he tried to draw a distinction between state power and class power . |
| 53 | Aszal says that he tried to call a doctor or an ambulance from the public telephone but was prevented from doing so by the guards . |
| 54 | A POLICEMAN was slashed with a knife when he tried to arrest a man who had just set fire to a £9,000 Volvo car , Liverpool Crown Court heard yesterday . |
| 55 | A POLICEMAN was slashed with a knife when he tried to arrest a man who had just set fire to a £9,000 Volvo car , Liverpool Crown Court heard yesterday . |
| 56 | Yousefi was caught when he tried to cash a cheque at a London bank but the name of Garawand was on a defaulters list . |
| 57 | Yousefi , 37 , was caught in London as he tried to cash a cheque at a bank . |
| 58 | Yousefi was caught as he tried to cash a cheque in London . |
| 59 | In February 1974 , Mr Heath lost his overall majority , but remained in office for several days while he tried to do a deal with Mr Jeremy Thorpe and the Liberals to keep him in power . |
| 60 | DIY man Chris McGrath got the brush-off … when he tried to board a bus carrying a can of paint . |