Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she joined him in the petit salon he came towards her with a prettily wrapped package in his hands . |
| 2 | Alex Brown & Sons financial analyst Mark Stahlman , who coined the phrase network computing , has charged IBM with leaning on The Harvard Business Review hard enough to make it pull a 10,000-word article he wrote for the January issue on ‘ Why IBM Failed . ’ |
| 3 | All of his six feet six foot three of smouldering sexuality he 's probably the best looking man you have ever seen with a bo body he looks every inch the top model he once was . |
| 4 | But in an interview with the Corriere della Sera newspaper he acknowledged he nearly retired after a miserable year in 1992 . |
| 5 | Here is Collimore Phillips down the right flank he was offside that was unlucky from Forest 's point of view and Collimore dumped to the ground when he played the ball away then and er he 's just holding er his shin just above his ankle there and Cooper is still in trouble from that er shoulder he injured moments ago Cooper 's all right to continue and the Forest physio Graham Myers busy treating Collimore . |
| 6 | In the end he is n't they who , he sued the insurance company and this , the er solicitor he had were n't getting on very good and they suggested this bloke and he got onto it and he got on it , fifteen thousand quid out of sixteen thousand quids . |
| 7 | D. A. A friend of mine was posted to a beat in Allerton and one summer 's afternoon he saw a young lad — about fifteen years of age — getting into a car . |
| 8 | He so detested the word ‘ Enterprise ’ , with its ring of commerce , that at Poindexter 's trial he scolded the prosecutor every time he used it . |
| 9 | The Sergeant was a meaty slab of a man , of fifty years ' service , ruddy-faced as though surfeited with a Marine 's haemoglobin-plus blood ; and through one Lyman 's earlobe he wore an alien foetus pendant . |
| 10 | He seems to have taught for a while , but already politics called him , and with his father 's support he took ship for France . |
| 11 | But in Fiona 's case he stressed : ‘ Our understanding is that any relationship that might have taken place did not com-mence until he was not a client of the service . |
| 12 | After hearing of Mr Hindmarch 's case he had contacted the firm , which agreed to send on the units . |
| 13 | In Peter 's case he has put down a marker for next year , when he will still be young enough to try . |
| 14 | Blote himself made use of the BKR scheme for twenty-five years ; during the last phase of the scheme 's existence he sold works to the value of DFl.150,000 to the government , most of which he kept at home . |
| 15 | Henreid had made a film in Austria five years earlier on the same subject , and in Basil Bartlett 's play he brought considerable urbanity to the role of Prince Louis of Battenberg , opposite Leo Genn 's Prince of Wales . |
| 16 | Reveille stirred him at first light , and after one last look at Tommy 's grave he returned to his platoon , to be informed that the Commanding Officer would be addressing the troops at zero nine hundred hours . |
| 17 | Lewyn was a distinguished master in a noble and functional style , but in the geometrical vault of the Durham prior 's kitchen he showed an outstanding aesthetic awareness . |
| 18 | After a moment 's hesitation he picked up the receiver . |
| 19 | He sold Grove Chance , then in foal for the first time , to his neighbour Percy Thomas , but when she died shortly after giving birth to Norton 's Coin he bought back the foal . |
| 20 | For this month 's Esquire he has interviewed former South African hit man Dirk Coetzee ( page 82 ) . |
| 21 | He said Mr Lamont declared in last year 's Budget he had ‘ no need , no proposals and no plans either to raise or to extend the scope of VAT ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ Get stuck into each other , you two , ’ shouted Trentham , but although Charlie started to jab away at Tommy 's chest he made no attempt to inflict any real pain . |
| 23 | Show Jackie in a minute all that guff about laughter Michael 's chest he 's got back of his . |
| 24 | There were horse-drawn vehicles , and when the Governor arrived to open the island 's parliament he drove in a stately coach and four . |
| 25 | In Doctor Lanyon 's handwriting he read ‘ G. J. Utterson . |
| 26 | When he heard of his army 's defeat he proclaimed a huge mushroom feast and ordered his shamans to brew up a fresh batch of Mad Cap fungus liquor for the Fanatics . |
| 27 | In an aunt 's loft he happened to chance across what he regards as his first hoard : a collection of dust-covered National Geographic magazines . |
| 28 | Piggy believed that he was perfectly innocent and after Simon 's murder he refused to believe that he had taken part in the killing . |
| 29 | Get a man and mould him to their own design — onto their personal potter 's wheel he goes , all the unacceptable bits gouged out . |
| 30 | the phone goes this morning , hop of Daisy , goes to answer it , Santa 's Grotto he says , a member of the public phoning to say that they found a child 's bag in the high street . |