Example sentences of "he [verb] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Kimbell 's hefty endowment freed Pillsbury from the chore of fundraising and enabled him to mount several important scholarly exhibitions that might not have found successful venues elsewhere ( such as the Jacopo Bassano exhibition , scheduled for January-April 1993 ) and which still attracted numerous art lovers to Fort Worth . |
| 2 | She begged him to see this new doctor who , she said , was supposed to be very good , very sympathetic . |
| 3 | On this evidence I 'd like to hear him conduct some genuine Delius . |
| 4 | you know she told me about it , she says I think I must mention it and I said okay I wo n't do it any more and she said oh please do it , we need you to do it she said especially the letter formation , she says what just try and encourage him to write any old letters , just to make sure that he can form them without copying them |
| 5 | In Get Richie Quick ! , the hero 's ex-wife Lola asks him to find some missing family documents and turns out to be setting him up to take the blame for a series of axe murders she 's been committing since she was six years old . |
| 6 | Wagland created the chance with a mazy run that saw him elude several desperate challenges . |
| 7 | I would n't give any odds on him keeping that right arm , either . ’ |
| 8 | In his later years he recalled with pride the opportunity it gave him to lecture such eminent men as Sir Henry Stanley on the correct procedure for expedition photography . |
| 9 | The actual sedition charge , however , reportedly arose from an article on tribalism , in which Imanyara wrote that some readers had contacted him to allege that undue favouritism was being shown in official quarters towards particular groups . |
| 10 | It is particularly important that this message comes from the woman : your partner is still a real man and you have to let him know that loud and clear . |
| 11 | ‘ Mebbe his father got worried about him driving that old jalopy — it were n't safe . |
| 12 | It was a position which helped him survive many subsequent close calls , particularly during the wave of anti-foreign sentiment engendered under the later years of President Sukarno 's regime . |
| 13 | In no time at all , he was scrubbed shiny , dressed in his night-shift , and seated in the big armchair , with the heat from the fire drying his hair and making him feel all sleepy . |
| 14 | Catherine was sounding tough and rational , but something in her voice made him feel this whole discussion was uncomfortable for her . |
| 15 | Fancy her thinking that getting him that lamp would make him feel any different about moving . |
| 16 | As Burton loved to live in opposition — it made him feel most alive and it could be argued that he lived in serious opposition to his own body for long stretches of his life — it is interesting to speculate whether the homosexual network gave yet another spin to his heterosexuality . |
| 17 | Mithra was later adopted by the Romans , who designated him to oversee all legal affairs and transactions . |
| 18 | He had a passionate interest in music and opera which led him to design several operatic sets . |
| 19 | Have you ever seen him do that flying spin kick ? |
| 20 | She was followed by Rabbi Moishe , his sallow face with its rippling white beard inclining first to one side and then to the other as everyone did him honour by rising until he had passed , and just behind him came another black-garbed figure , a bespectacled priest , greying head covered by a yarmulkah . |
| 21 | Three counts against , then , and all urged him to resist this daemonic demand for sex . |
| 22 | As it is now three weeks since the Kincardine and Deeside by-election , when will he respond to our invitation to meet him to discuss these serious matters ? |
| 23 | What on earth made him use this appalling Americanism , he wondered . |
| 24 | He leaned forward , smiling , playing the perfect host , knowing how important it was for him to win these young men over . |
| 25 | It may at times become chaotic and disordered , but that , that 's not the normal state of affairs , and Hobbes ' analysis of social order leads him to conclude that social order only becomes possible , when individuals give up some of their freedom , to centralize authority . |
| 26 | The corner of his lips twitched a little with a solemnity which suggested only a matter of some gravity would persuade him to venture this close to the personal . |
| 27 | As it is , Elizabeth could perhaps encourage him to do some voluntary work or find part-time employment to redefine his identity and meet new people . |
| 28 | What had finally driven him to do this dreadful thing ? |
| 29 | If only he could keep in touch with that centre of himself , which somehow , mysteriously , enabled him to do this acting business — then all the rest would be his . |
| 30 | We frequently telephone asking him to illustrate some obscure or abstract concept . |