Example sentences of "he [verb] the [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He surfed the reef breaks — La Jolla , Windansea , Swamis — until one day someone came up to him and said , ‘ With the kind of lines you draw you should go and surf Hawaii . ’ |
| 2 | He defaced the typewriter keys with a file and made a special trip to Hertfordshire to drop it in a reservoir . |
| 3 | He pierced the end walls with rose-windows which are among the earliest in existence . |
| 4 | He avoided the bullying tactics his son was to employ ; yet the results of his modest pursuits were in their own way as remarkable as those of Philip Augustus ' domineering interventions . |
| 5 | He asked the Church Commissioners to do it but would not wait to see whether they consented . |
| 6 | Next he led the spinnaker sheets aft to the cockpit and made them fast to the stern cleats with plenty of slack . |
| 7 | Caplow is aware of the problems of selling a long-lasting product ( business advisors have warned him against workwear 's long-term potential ) , although , like Roger Wade at Carhartt , he thinks the workwear brands can break out of their cult status . |
| 8 | This was pre-eminently the case where the Area Boards were united in opposing the Central Authority or the Government ( as on the Clow differential ) , though Citrine was more willing to give in to such pressure on matters where he respected the Board Chairmen 's views , such as tariffs , than on matters where he was determined to impose his own , as in labour relations . |
| 9 | General Francis said it so happened that he owned the fishing rights on a fairly respectable stretch of water . |
| 10 | He read the opening prayers from the platform and spoke impressively to the undergraduates about their attitudes to the mission . |
| 11 | Otto 's authority rested on the success of his armies , most spectacularly in 955 at the battle of the Lechfeld when he defeated the Magyar hosts who were attacking Augsburg . |
| 12 | According to this , when King Oswy gave the land for a monastery to St Hilda , he retained the hunting rights . |
| 13 | He built the brick units and their arches himself . |
| 14 | Boldwood walked across the fields to the pool , where he found the farm workers busily washing the sheep . |
| 15 | He found the Steel Wheels tour very tiring and does n't want to continue . |
| 16 | He found the car keys and availed himself thereof . |
| 17 | In 1841 he joined the Felling Chemical Works , where he maintained the lead chambers of the sulphuric-acid plant . |
| 18 | Does he respect the safety measures laid down ? |
| 19 | Will he consider the staffing levels needed to cost the billions of pounds of wholly uncosted pledges made by the Opposition day after day , week after week ? |
| 20 | And Nottingham Forest manager Brian Clough could make an FA Cup return to Middlesbrough , where he rewrote the history books as a goalscorer . |
| 21 | In Australia , he rewrote the history books in a display not seen since the days of Jim Clark and Graham Hill — they helped revolutionise Indycar racing with their rear-engined Lotus Fords — when he started from pole position , won the race and smashed the lap record in his debut race . |
| 22 | Finally , we must be concerned by the fact that in at least one school ( see Chapter 5 ) the senior member of staff whose demand for IS resources was widely believed to have instigated the original project initiative could not himself describe how he used the project acquisitions in his own work . |
| 23 | ‘ Tom , ’ I said , ‘ all they 've got is the bare fact of his winning the title , but did he win the Pipeline Masters ? |
| 24 | As he entered the school gates , he was greeted with sniggers from the small boys . |
| 25 | The Shankill councillor said he wants the crash barriers erected on the Springfield Road close to the scene of an accident last week when a woman and her young child were struck by a stolen car . |
| 26 | He visited the vegetable markets , renowned in Europe , where he obtained seeds of celeriac a vegetable new to England , and not readily accepted by London 's market gardeners . |
| 27 | In Holland he visited the meeting houses of the Anabaptists and Brownists and studied the organisation of the almshouses and the building of warships . |
| 28 | he says the toilet rolls the soft ones have dropped down , cos I get the soft Kleenex ones , everybody 's complaining about and he said they 'd dropped them three pound , is it twenty nine ? , to two eighty nine now |
| 29 | He says the letter bombs could have injured any of the people who handled them on their way to their targets . |
| 30 | And he played the family stakes through his convoluted connection related by marriage — to Steve Wyatt , the Texan Sarah holidayed with in Morocco and France two years ago . |