Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flush with corvine visiting cards , Rolfe took up residence in Christchurch , before the fraudulent offer he made for his hosts ' house marked the end of his credit and credibility in Hampshire . |
| 2 | He made for his aircraft , walking fast . |
| 3 | However he remains unseen because Sauron can not pierce the shadows he made for his own defence . |
| 4 | But I did n't like at all the er excuses he made for his wife . |
| 5 | Then Howard sits back and tells them about the terrible balls-up he made of his arrival in the city . |
| 6 | ‘ You know as well as any what answer he made to their urging and how fast they dropped it , at least in his hearing . |
| 7 | I immediately set about trying to fulfil Mr Farraday 's wishes , but as you know , finding recruits of a satisfactory standard is no easy task nowadays , and although I was pleased to hire Rosemary and Agnes on Mrs Clements 's recommendation , I had got no further by the time I came to have my first business meeting with Mr Farraday during the short preliminary visit he made to our shores in the spring of last year . |
| 8 | His concern for the Dunsden poor and the compassion of his war poetry are at odds with a remark he made to his mother at the outbreak of hostilities . |
| 9 | The offer he made to his boardroom colleagues yesterday was 20p a share , 30p less than their original value . |
| 10 | The High Court has ruled that the historian from Oxfordshire will still have to pay Lord Aldington one and a half million pounds for allegations he made about his war record . |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't look at me , ’ she said , still smarting from the display of affection he made towards his damp-eyed secretary . |
| 12 | He was never at ease in large company but preferred the few friends he made through his education at Eton and Cambridge . |
| 13 | Gary Richman will be sentenced once investigators have discovered just how much money he made from his drug dealing . |
| 14 | Every day of every week he becomes richer by more money than he made in his first ten Sixties films put together and then some . |
| 15 | Mr Soros used his donation , a 20th of what he made in his currency speculation , to urge Nato to use military force in Bosnia so aid could reach suffering civilians . |
| 16 | During the visit , which he made in his capacity as President of the European Council of the European Communities , he addressed a conference of the Institute of Directors . |
| 17 | Whereupon , one of the assembled journalists — and it did not exactly endear him to his photographic colleagues — started to ask Keenan about the famous remark he made after his release — the one about drinking all the Guinness in Ireland and making love to all the women in Ireland . |
| 18 | But the preparatory sketches he made throughout his life , 300 of which are on display at this exhibition , show that a careful process of synthesis lay behind each work . |
| 19 | And as she fell she sensed him plunge to meet her like a meteor on fire , heard the sound he made against her sundered throat . |
| 20 | The Progressive Democrats had been on the brink of walking out of Prime Minister Albert Reynolds ' government team over an accusation of dishonesty he made against their leader , Des O'Malley , last week . |
| 21 | He crosses to his wall safe . |
| 22 | Sam looked out over the flooding river and breathed in the damp smell of the morning as if testing wine for bouquet , and I thought that he lived through his senses to a much greater degree than I did and was intensely alive in his direct approach to sex and his disregard of danger . |
| 23 | But that was a long time ago when he lived on his father 's stud farm in Ireland . |
| 24 | For some years he lived on his estate at Ballinastow in county Wicklow , where he was high sheriff in 1835 . |
| 25 | He won the Commonwealth and European titles , married and became a father in the time he lived with his particular pain . |
| 26 | Often she had passed the stone house where he lived with his children , some of whom must now be grown . |
| 27 | Subsequent financial woes — he had quit his job as a broker to work on a show for the Boone gallery — sent Koons back to Pennsylvania , where he lived with his parents for several months before heading to Florida for a political campaign job that brought him enough money to return to New York . |
| 28 | After spending the evening lambing , he had driven a few hundred yards to the copse from his home nearby at New Manor Farm , Winterslow , Wilts , where he lived with his Australian-born wife , Lavinia , 39 , seven-year-old son and five-year-old daughter . |
| 29 | He lived with his five brothers , sister and parents in an old building near the Cliff Hotel in Jaffa and he still remembered the day in 1935 on which Jean Damiani bought the first family car , a magnificent light green Buick saloon costing 350 Palestinian pounds , equivalent then to the same amount in sterling . |
| 30 | ONCE he had left the modern flat where he lived with his father in Johannesburg , John Cranko always lived in old houses . |