Example sentences of "he [verb] the [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why had he given the EQ such power ? |
| 2 | ‘ Had the contract been simply for so many tons of potatoes of a particular quality then , although each party might have had in his mind when he made the contract this particular crop of potatoes , if they had all perished , the defendant would still have been bound to deliver the quantity contracted for . ’ |
| 3 | He built his dragons a garden , the most beautiful garden in the world , and although he surrounded it with an iron wall which he believed they would not cross , he made the wall beautiful for them , lavish with filigree work and sweet with hanging plants . |
| 4 | He made the claim 10 days before details of Mr Lamont 's credit card overspending emerged . |
| 5 | Perhaps the most important law change to emphasise that rugby is played by players standing on their feet ; this season after a tackle any other player must be on his feet when he plays the ball immaterial of what distance he is away from the tackle . |
| 6 | He stuffed the head half headfirst into woman |
| 7 | As she watched he draped the shirt next to hers by the fire before squatting down opposite her . |
| 8 | As he passed the bank next door he noticed that it too had a side passage , but this one was decked out with tiles and had painted walls . |
| 9 | And then he got the message last night , the same , it 's me again ! |
| 10 | At least he got the order right ! |
| 11 | And he got the call last week to take his place in John Clarke 's panel as they bid for a record-breaking six-in-a-row triumph . |
| 12 | He got the economy straight . ’ |
| 13 | Down in the kitchen , a radio voice was talking at Dad while he got the tea ready . |
| 14 | He flung the door open and waved his cane impatiently . |
| 15 | Unable to prevent his speedy passage , she screwed her eyes up tightly , her body rigid in his hands as he flung the door open . |
| 16 | To be sure , he lacked the background appropriate to a british prime minister and even in American terms his credentials were open to question . |
| 17 | He wiped the blade clean on his skin coat and walked out . |
| 18 | Will he sack the Minister concerned ? |
| 19 | And he phoned , and he phoned the pub this afternoon and he says I 'm not coming in to work tonight . |
| 20 | He found the watchman asleep under a tree , his legs curled up under him as they had been when he had pantomimed the way he had found the body , his turban neatly parked beside him . |
| 21 | He found the experience good for his mind . |
| 22 | He had never heard Francesca giving vent to feminine jealousy and on the whole he found the experience refreshing . |
| 23 | However , the anticipated knock never came and opening the door of the box he found the lobby silent and totally devoid of anyone , the strange visitor had vanished without trace . |
| 24 | He said that he found the work dull , and did as little of it as possible : |
| 25 | ‘ Academically there was n't anything to shout from the ceilings , in fact I do n't think that he found the work easy , but there was a dedication there that some of his contemporaries of the same ability could have used . |
| 26 | Invariably , he found the sex disappointing . |
| 27 | Craddock 's notebook shows that he found the substance soluble in acetone , but this fact , like various other details of Ridley and Craddock 's work , was not reported in Fleming 's paper . |
| 28 | He found the film boring : tramps sleeping rough on pavements , women with grimy children in bed and breakfast hotels , men in suits pontificating . |
| 29 | She did not quite like the way he kept calling her by her name ; there was a humorous inflection on the three liquid syllables as though he found the name funny . |
| 30 | Apparently , when the polis went back this morning he found the house empty , bare , absolutely stripped , and Slim Boswell and the lasses gone , and every stick of furniture just vanished , the lot . |