Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But why should Joe Maitland do that if 'e went ter the fights 'imself ? ’ |
| 2 | 'E collapsed as 'e come out the Kings Arms an' they rushed 'im away ter the 'ospital. 'E 's in a bad way so Maisie Dingle told me . |
| 3 | It would be placing too heavy a burden on an employer to require him to carry out a formal medical investigation and , even if he did , such an investigation would rarely be fruitful because of the transient nature of the employee 's symptoms and complaints . |
| 4 | The ‘ observer as participant ’ is known by the group under study to be an observer but has been accepted , temporarily , by the group and allowed temporary membership to enable him to carry out the research . |
| 5 | On 9 March , Coleman received a detailed encrypted message from Control setting up Operation Shakespeare , clearing his visit to Lebanon and instructing him to carry out the mission as Thomas Leavy , of Westinghouse Group W News . |
| 6 | It amused him to see how the gullible idiot deferred to him , even when they were in the midst of a vicious argument . |
| 7 | ‘ My earliest memory of my father is of him galloping down a field ; my last is of him reaching out to me like a helpless kitten ’ |
| 8 | There was a warmth and a charm about him that made for easy relations with most people , even the press , and they helped him build up the confidence that was needed all round . |
| 9 | A person who is allowed to enter one part of a building only , will become a trespasser if he enters another part " When you invite a person into your house to use the stairs you do not invite him to slide down the bannisters " ( The Calgarth [ 1927 ] P 93 per Scrutton LJ ) . |
| 10 | Even there it would seem that he was known because a woman came to him and asked him to drive out an unclean spirit from her daughter . |
| 11 | From the corner of her eye , she watched him pick up the first coil of rope . |
| 12 | The tide had risen a foot above the usual high water mark , and when they came to cut him free in the morning , they found him hanging on the outer wall — drowned . |
| 13 | The sight of him hanging on the Cross — are we really supposed to worship that , defeat and death ? |
| 14 | Brian came home because Daddy could n't stand the thought of him hanging off a cliff . |
| 15 | Mr Biermann , who is visiting his mother at her home in Elton Road , wrote the books to rebuild his life after a stroke in 1989 left him paralysed down the right hand side of his body . |
| 16 | Leith swallowed hard , and knew , before the weakness of loving him , the weakness of wanting him battered down the rest of her defences , small though those defences were , that she had to appeal to that in him which she somehow knew would make him hate himself if he took her . |
| 17 | He 'd watch him dance around the room emitting stifled screams . |
| 18 | You have to get him wound down a bit , you have to do it , you know of a about half an hour or so ask him for the proper name ! |
| 19 | Patrick 's identification of the body enabled him to write out a death certificate , which he handed to PC Bartholomew with a note of the other details . |
| 20 | She almost begged him to write out the cheque . |
| 21 | However , she seemed to have forgotten all about it , because she told him to pull up a chair and warm himself by the fire . |
| 22 | Churchill 's ‘ overlords ’ certainly enabled him to slim down the Cabinet to sixteen members . |
| 23 | ‘ To see him driving around a track at 65mph is an incredible sight . |
| 24 | In 1980 , Allan Wells took six months off work to enable him to train twice a day . |
| 25 | Nor is it any more than the incidental music to a play that captured the composer 's imagination and inspired him to conjure up the ‘ goings on in the Magicked Athenian wood ’ . |
| 26 | Gielgud gave him another chance , asked him to come back the next day and do it again . |
| 27 | So he hired a lorry , bribed the demolition men to let him cart away the finest doorcases , moulded corner cupboards , cornices and chimney pieces and stored them in a London County Council Historic Buildings warehouse at his own expense . |
| 28 | He says the year and a half he 's spent in America has helped him grow up a little . |
| 29 | A new car , a Porsche , showing off to friends , laughing , not really concentrating — The accident should have made him grow up a little . |
| 30 | You could hear him shouting down the telephone halfway down the road . |