Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] he [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was , Aunt Margaret said , a safe in their bedroom where he kept the money until he took it in to the bank at the end of the week in the massive , gleaming , opulent-looking calf-skin briefcase with a very large lock . |
| 2 | ‘ Even has a secret little den where he takes the other members of his gang . |
| 3 | He has also played the lover , as in Green Card where he played the Frenchman in search of a permit to stay in America . |
| 4 | He keeps her a prisoner in a fish pond where he stores the catch . |
| 5 | This so impressed the then president of the Canadian branch of the Anglo Jewish Association that he invited the young man , scarcely more than a boy , to be its secretary ; the start of a highly successful and very wide range of business and charitable interests . |
| 6 | Seth flew forty miles an hour face first into the piling with such force that he uprooted the eight telephone poles . |
| 7 | It was getting dark so he pulled the curtains and put on the overhead light . |
| 8 | It was when he finally reached the end of the turning by the Rotherhithe.Tunnel entrance that he saw the three standing together across the street . |
| 9 | He told the ECHO that he thought the teachers ' action which has left thousands of exam papers unopened , was a ‘ great tragedy ’ . |
| 10 | This was not Dickens ' fault that he changed the ending , he was practically forced to do it by a friend . |
| 11 | It is in one such hall of study that he encounters the TA Commissioning course , which is examining the art of patrolling . |
| 12 | Lord Aldington , who lives at Knoll Farm , Aldington , Ashford , Kent , is claiming libel damages over allegations in a pamphlet that he arranged the repatriation of around 70,000 Cossacks and Yugoslavs , knowing they would be massacred on their return . |
| 13 | Lord Aldington , former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party , who lives at Knoll Farm , Aldington , Ashford , Kent , is claiming libel damages over allegations in a pamphlet that he arranged the repatriation of 70,000 Cossacks and Yugoslavs , knowing they would be massacred . |
| 14 | MacDonald 's reply — ‘ I explained my hopeless parlty. position if there were any resignations ’ — is a clear indication that he found the idea of a National Government distasteful ; indeed , that his position was likely to be ‘ hopeless ’ . |
| 15 | He was guilty of blasphemy and could now be taken to the Roman Governor with the recommendation that he suffer the death penalty . |
| 16 | The LA has to be assured by the applicant that he understands the importance of the rules relating to drivers ' hours , records and tachograph requirements , rules which need careful study . |
| 17 | Samuel Pepys records purchasing a copy of the Essay on 15 May , 1668 , and it so pleased the Sovereign that he promoted the author from the Secretaryship of the Royal Society to the See of Chester . |
| 18 | The plaintiff accepted a lift home with the defendant although he knew the defendant was drunk . |
| 19 | Triumphantly he told the master of the horse that he had the solution to everything " in my back pocket . " |
| 20 | As well as being mysterious the wind is powerful : it was by a mighty wind that God assuaged the waters of the Flood ( Gen. 8 : 1 ) , and by a wind that he caused the waters to recede before Israel at the Exodus ( Exod. 14:21 ) . |
| 21 | It was only when he moved round to the side that he saw the blue , chapped ears and the hair , frozen and brittle , as if you could snap it off . |
| 22 | In Manders v. Williams , brewers supplied porter in casks to a publican on condition that he returned the empty casks ; held , they could maintain trover against a sheriff who took the casks in execution for the publican 's debts , for directly they were emptied the right to immediate possession was in the brewers , the publican becoming a mere bailee at will . |
| 23 | Louis then swore in the lingua romana , so that Charles 's men would understand him : For the love of God and for the Christian people and for our common salvation , from this day henceforth , as far as God grants that I know and can , I shall so help this my brother Charles with my aid and in all things , as every man ought in right to help his brother , on condition that he does the like for me . |
| 24 | The probable answer to the first inquiry is that ownership of material is unchanged by alteration of it ; to the second , that the court will use its discretion in making an order for specific restitution and will award the thing to him whose interest is the more substantial , on condition that he pays the value of the other 's interest . |
| 25 | I showed him our itinerary and he read the names aloud slowly and haltingly as if thee were the names of some distant land whose pronunciation he was unsure of . |
| 26 | By 1848 the Count had become an important figure in the administration of Hungary but the prospects of civil war and revolution led to his nervous collapse and he spent the next decade in an asylum . |
| 27 | This was n't his first encounter with Stephen 's rival and he knew the woman seated on the other side of the high table was a formidable opponent , probably more dangerous than the King , and possessing in full measure the strong will and harsh determination that had characterised her father and grandfather . |
| 28 | His wife dies in the opening few minutes of the movie and he spends the rest of his life mourning her . |
| 29 | The general opinion seems to be that since the bastard 's decided to stop shooting people , he can remain anonymous , stay at large , enjoy life and freedom , and laugh up his sleeve at an incompetent police force until he decides the time has come for a little more high-velocity fun . ’ |
| 30 | The clerk expressed the view that they contained inadmissible material because of the hearsay rule and he took the view that the evidence was inadmissible despite the relevant provisions of the Children Act 1989 designed to overcome that difficulty . |