Example sentences of "he [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SOCCER player Mickey Thomas was attacked with a hammer and screwdriver as he made love to a married woman in his car , a court heard yesterday . |
| 2 | She had seen his face when he made love to the piano . |
| 3 | SOCCER player Mickey Thomas was attacked with a hammer and screwdriver as he made love with a married woman in his car , a court heard yesterday . |
| 4 | The College 's first Principal ( or Professor , as he and his more immediate successors were called ) published his first proposals for a veterinary school in England in 1788 , but it was not until two years later that he made contact with the Odiham Agricultural Society . |
| 5 | Through his research in Norway he made contact with the former secret agent Bernhard Bergersen who was keen to ensure that the Norwegian facts were correct . |
| 6 | He made contact with the ANC and struck a deal . |
| 7 | Through the intercession of the Serbs in Vojvodina he made contact with the representative of the European powers , and especially with the Austrians and Russians . |
| 8 | Yeah delayed reaction and I 'll tell you Gemmell was lucky then because he er he made contact with the referee in making his protest and they normally stamp down on that one but Mr Kirby has been er a lenient official today . |
| 9 | It 's claimed he made contact with the KGB on a vacation trip to Moscow during his second year at Oxford ; an argument that certainly does n't wash with Jesse Malkin . |
| 10 | Similar preoccupations were at the back of the mind of Hilary Frome himself , as , with the front of his mind , he made conversation with the overdressed parents of one of the boarders . |
| 11 | He made fun of the pseudo-learned , bureaucratic speech of an inspector which began like this : |
| 12 | He made policy with the aid of an Executive Council which was composed entirely of senior officials . |
| 13 | Coleridge was overwhelmed , as he made plain in a letter to Joseph Cottle : ‘ T. Poole 's opinion of Wordsworth is — that he is the greatest Man , he ever knew — I coincide . ’ |
| 14 | He made use of the Cabinet-committee structure as a filter for business , though he chaired very few committees himself ( the main exceptions were the Economic Policy and Defence committees ) . |
| 15 | The same horseman , a stallion-leader , gave another instance of how he made use of the horse 's hypersensitive power of smell . |
| 16 | He made use of the new Dover–Calais cable to transmit information , which he sold to clients , between the London and Paris stock exchanges . |
| 17 | Miller 's excursions into architecture were in essence a facet of his active social life — which through his patron at Hagley ( George , first Baron Lyttelton , q.v. ) included contact with the interlocking family ‘ cousinage ’ of the Lytteltons , Pitts , and Grenvilles — and like other amateur architects he made use of the assistance of professionals . |
| 18 | Four Australian cricket-writers and one Australian team manager will never forget the day at net practice in Christchurch on the 1985–86 tour of New Zealand when , during a routine discussion with the journalists on preparation for a one-day match , he made mention of the fact that he intended to resign if his shattered team did not win the match the following Saturday . |
| 19 | At the new house , he lived life to the full . |
| 20 | During his early years in London he lived south of the river . |
| 21 | You see he plays rugby on a Saturday . |
| 22 | For example : Sentence Graphics 1 John gets up Stick figure in bed then standing by bed 2 John gets dressed Clothes appear on stick figure 3 John eats breakfast food on breakfast table disappears 4 John gets the bus to Stick figure leaves house , school waits at bus stop , is collected by bus 5 He plays football in the Stick boys play football yard Example 4 : parts of speech . |
| 23 | He laid siege to the fortress and gradually weakened it to the point of collapse . |
| 24 | By contrast , Judge Lauterpacht retained this emphasis in his insistence that the General Assembly could only authorise the oral hearings if South Africa continued to frustrate the operation of the Mandate ; he laid stress on the continued status of the territory . |
| 25 | He laid emphasis on the ‘ Mrs ’ , at the same time bowing his head in a servile manner . |
| 26 | Visiting his brethren in Southern Rhodesia he attacked apartheid in a sermon in Salisbury Cathedral so directly that he was deported and declared an ‘ undesirable visitor ’ by the UDI regime . |
| 27 | He lent prestige to the young veterinary profession by telling Moorcroft that he would , if he were a young man , follow a veterinary career himself . |
| 28 | Does he understand what happened any more than when he divided heroin on the kitchen table ? |
| 29 | He draped tinsel round the pink lampshades on the table . |
| 30 | In Bavaria during the 830s , Louis had established a firm power-base for an enlarged kingdom , and his epithet " the German " , though meant by contemporaries to convey simply that he ruled east of the Rhine , would turn out curiously apt in terms of modern state-geography . |