Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | His rise through journalism took him from cub reporter on the Stockport Express , to the BBC in Birmingham — and the world . |
| 2 | But his enthusiasm for system led him too easily to assume that a native administration duly gazetted was a native administration actually functioning as a responsible organ of local government , and this set a limit to his achievements in reform . |
| 3 | His practical genius for ergonomics allowed him to succeed in adapting tasks to suit a disabled workforce . |
| 4 | ‘ After referring appreciatively to the work of the honorary medical staff , Arnold Whitchurch , the chairman , said that until any hospital made arrangements with somebody to take money for work done he was certain the medical staff would continue in their honorary capacity . |
| 5 | Bella 's slander about drink baffled him , but at the same time it queerly took root , until he did indeed start boozing a good deal . |
| 6 | Suffering mistakes and the weariness of life thrusts him back , but the search for truth drives him on and on . |
| 7 | He acquired a small capital by scavenging and became a pedlar ; then he became a partner in a ship ; and his skill as a sailor and his fondness for travel took him to Scotland and Italy , to Denmark and Flanders . |
| 8 | Modigliani 's penetrating artistic judgement and his talent for graphology made him ‘ a sort of magician ’ . |
| 9 | He designed for others ( costumes for Diaghilev and embroidery for Schiaparelli ) , but he also ‘ designed ’ himself ; his unquenchable desire for fame and his talent for self-publicity made him the most photographed man in Paris . |
| 10 | McMillan was an extremely hard worker but a certain fluidity in his perception of time made him sometimes an unpredictable colleague . |
| 11 | He had been there so long , had been so doubtful — and , until recently , so indifferent — about seeing the outside again that the mention of discharge took him by surprise . |
| 12 | In the eyes of Louis , his near-drowning had been an act of self-emasculation , a loss of face tumbling him down the social scale to a level little higher than a peon 's . |
| 13 | Forbidden suicide by his religion , he could not induce death by , for instance , agitating his pierced hands and feet until loss of blood carried him away . |
| 14 | It follows that it is reasonable to assume that a unit of goodness can exist in the mind of man to aid him in understanding the origin of his God , just as the scientific unit aids human thought directed towards physical activity . |
| 15 | In the meantime , both his doubts and his fear of death caused him to become even more serious and resolute in seeking ‘ first … |
| 16 | The outbreak of war made him more restless . |
| 17 | The outbreak of war found him in Australia where , with his teacher 's patronage , he was attending a meeting of the British Association as secretary of the anthropology section . |
| 18 | The outbreak of war found him a colonel of fifty-eight , who had never served abroad . |
| 19 | Otley and I held on to him while Nigel searched for a large piece of wood to haul him out with , and in the meantime we had a close-up of the lush vegetation of the riverside : buttercups , forget-me-nots , dog roses and honeysuckle and the shy little water avens modestly hiding its peach-coloured face . |
| 20 | The last view is suggested by his claims that we are conscious of some memories ( those brought to INTROSPECTION in the ‘ control box ’ for example ) and some of the commands to say things ( as in deliberately saying something , as distinct from finding ourselves saying it ) , which would be messages from the ‘ control box ’ to PR ( the ‘ public relations box ’ , by analogy with the White House public relations chief , who is simply handed a piece of paper telling him what to say , but not to think about ) . |
| 21 | Malcolm , an engineer , started training for his microlight pilot 's licence in 1987 , and several hours solo flying , three written exams , and ‘ General Flying Test ’ later he obtained the magical piece of paper allowing him to ‘ commit aviation ’ ! |
| 22 | And I said do you want a piece of paper to write him a message or something ? |
| 23 | ‘ residential occupier , ’ in relation to any premises , means a person occupying the premises as a residence , whether under a contract or by virtue of any enactment or rule of law giving him the right to remain in occupation or restricting the right of any other person to recover possession of the premises . |
| 24 | 1 ( 1 ) In this section " residential occupier " , in relation to any premises , means a person occupying the premises as a residence , whether under a contract or by virtue of any enactment or rule of law giving him the right to remain in occupation or restricting the right of any other person to recover possession of the premises . |
| 25 | But he did not know himself what it was and the impossibility of explaining made him turn his head at last and look across at the bright , rectangular picture Doyle was holding out . |
| 26 | He had given the patient an intravenous injection of diazepam to calm him down . |
| 27 | As a challenge the chief of the Poltava guberniia Department of Education offered him the directorship of this residential school for war-orphans . |
| 28 | The rustling of packaging caused him to sigh and ask the computer to turn up the sound . |
| 29 | The President 's obsession with security led him to authorize the wire-tapping of government employees , while Liddy and Hunt , part of the Watergate burglary team , illegally entered the offices of a psychiatrist who had treated Daniel Ellsberg , the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the press , in order to steal his medical records . |
| 30 | ‘ I put the car into drive to run him down and kill him , ’ said Anne , who is just 5ft tall . |