Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun sg] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We next met the day he arrived in Normandy . |
| 2 | As soon as Jaq met the Astropath he guessed that there was more awaiting . |
| 3 | She had realised the moment he walked into the Customs office that Nathan Bryce was not a man to cross . |
| 4 | The Voice slipped the magnetic card into the slot of the public telephone , consulted the number he had been given by Taczek , and dialled . |
| 5 | Then as the first shrill blast pierced the air he slammed the car into gear and glared at her . |
| 6 | was even more true to form , with Bernard Cribbins cementing the debut he made in Carry On Jack , but with the addition of Eric Barker , Charles Hawtrey and Jim Dale ( who was to appear in a number of the series ) . |
| 7 | The irony for him now is that a third success could relegate the club he supported as a boy . |
| 8 | Even his devoted admirer and friend Robert Hardy was reduced to praising the ruff he wore ! |
| 9 | Osman had recovered from his put-down and seemed bent on recovering the ground he had lost . |
| 10 | They 'd taken the motorised dinghy across to explore the fairy-tale clarity of the water in the natural sea caves of the Blue Grotto , then on Roman 's orders had spurned the small cove he 'd mentioned as too crowded , and returned to take the yacht further out to sea , choosing a peaceful place to drop anchor and eat the picnic he 'd stowed away as a surprise … |
| 11 | Earlier we might have said his conduct and manner of speech were appropriate for one who wished to renounce the status he had stolen , and show his recognition of Esau 's authority as the elder son . |
| 12 | Eliot was unable to renounce the world he knew . |
| 13 | Before touching the body he had briefly crossed himself . |
| 14 | It was almost a habit with Pascoe : every time he passed the phone he called Sophie ; and every time he got a machine with a message . |
| 15 | But by then he had already come to doubt whether Parliament shared the commitment he felt , with Harrison , to the kingdom of Christ on earth . |
| 16 | I 'm sorry he had to go the way he did , but it was always going to happen , the sort of man he was . |
| 17 | THE TRUE-life story of New York mobster turned FBI witness Henry Hill presented Martin Scorsese with a ripe opportunity to re-examine the milieu he uncovered in Mean Streets . |
| 18 | Would that have altered the way he 'd always felt about her ? |
| 19 | As he was never in contention , he will not have used up the sort of nervous energy expended by Chip Beck , who recovered the lead he had lost on Saturday to edge out Greg Norman and Mike Standly with a final round of 70 . |
| 20 | When Jones made the offer he said he was ‘ attempting to establish an open and cooperative relationship ’ and to help mend the broken fences of the previous day 's rancour . |
| 21 | Dom Alfonso Pires da Silva stammered out his compliments and made the speech he had prepared about Dom João being unavoidably detained in Lisbon by pressing affairs of state . |
| 22 | The facts made the contempt he had felt for her , six years ago at any rate , even more understandable . |
| 23 | The Tree has some pretty weird ideas about religion ; he might just swallow the idea he 's been working for the devil all this time . |
| 24 | While still using the mirror he tried not to tense his neck muscles , nor to depress his larynx , nor to make the gasping sounds . |
| 25 | Mr Boyd had escaped to France after the ‘ 45 , had married a French wife , who now lived with him in Aberdeen , and he tried his best to cure the local people using the knowledge he had gained from some medical text-books he found in a house on the island of Arran while on the run . |
| 26 | Using the work he had done on the influence of a trauma , on a child under five years of age , and its effects on the later genesis of neurosis , Freud analysed religions as consisting of positive and negative reactions to a trauma which has been forgotten . |
| 27 | ‘ Tong Chou , ’ he said , using the pseudonym he had used in the Plantation that time ; knowing that if they checked the records they would find an entry there under that name and a face to match his face . |
| 28 | Before using the phone he checked the room minutely . |
| 29 | Oddly the thought still writhed within him — the thought of other men using the body he had loved himself , being given wholesale what he had been offered as an inestimable gift . |
| 30 | TEENAGER Steven Perry dived into a canal in West Bromwich and saved a drowning youngster — using the kiss-of-life he had seen on the TV series Casualty . |