Example sentences of "he [verb] the [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same is true of free , fit , apt , able , etc. , all of which denote a quality in the person designated as the support which predisposes him to realize the action referred to by the infinitive in a certain way . |
| 2 | The choices made by players in a game must be mutually consistent in the sense that each player 's choice is the best for him given the choices made by the others . |
| 3 | It would be very simple to tell him everything and leave him to unscramble the truth contained in the confusion . |
| 4 | On these assumptions , the expatriate vote clinched the Vale of Glamorgan for Mr Walter Sweeney , enabling him to recapture the seat lost in 1989 to Labour , and may have tipped the balance in Mr Michael Stern 's defence of Bristol North-West . |
| 5 | I beg to move , to leave out from ’ That ’ to the end of the Question , and to add instead thereof : this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill because of the inadequacy of the groundwater protection provisions in that the powers granted to the Secretary of State in the Bill would enable him to weaken the protections specified in the schedule , because the public consultation on the Hydrotechnica report is not yet concluded , because that consultation process has allowed no mechanism for public discussion of the report , and because the Bill makes no provision for an independent final arbiter on matters concerning the quality of the water environment in the inland bay . |
| 6 | The groundwater protection provisions are inadequate in that the powers granted to the Secretary of State in the Bill would enable him to weaken the protections specified in the schedule . |
| 7 | Back in civvy street he landed a job at the Strand Cornerhouse in London ; from there a number of jobs with skilled confectioners allowed him to accumulate the experience needed to go it alone . |
| 8 | He brings a large , but incomplete , map of the village and surrounding area , saying that he 's been approached by one of the railway companies who are interested in building a railway line to Seatown , and that they have asked him to have the map updated . |
| 9 | But one is constantly struck by the author 's insatiable interest in the whole range of sculptural production , which refused to allow him to ignore the ceramics made under the influence of sculptors , the bronze door handles of the Hill Music Room or even the four terminal busts attached to the bookcase in the office of the Keeper of Antiquities . |
| 10 | He divided the errors collected into three categories : substitution errors ( where an incorrect lexical item is produced instead of the target ) ; loss errors ( where a speaker fails to produce any lexical item ) ; and addition errors ( where a speaker produces more lexical items than intended ) . |
| 11 | He drinks the tea brought to us by the koko gravely , and makes exasperated noises . |
| 12 | He knew he was behaving ludicrously and the sooner he got the wench locked up with a pack of nuns the better . |
| 13 | But he got a pattern made and had the base of the machine made at a local foundry and he made all the leverage parts and got the , he got the blades made in Sheffield or somewhere and er he made one for himself . |
| 14 | He read the letters interlaced with hearts ; he lit a cigarette , exhaled slowly , watching the smoke nudge across the roof until it found its way out into the sky through the circle in the roof like a full moon ; he lifted the door open , and looked across the olive grove . |
| 15 | His blue eyes looked suddenly brighter , sharper , as he read the name printed on the front of one of the letters . |
| 16 | He hooked the door shut with his foot , and walked away , spilling wrong notes behind him like a gardener sowing weeds . |
| 17 | At the latter , he found the building deserted except for two strikers on guard-duty . |
| 18 | When Captain Cook encountered the Maori he found the chiefs adorned with jade insignia . |
| 19 | He had expected her to be sitting in the little ticket office with her friend Maureen , but instead he found the office locked and in darkness and the entire frontage of the cinema deserted . |
| 20 | He found the force varied and changed polarity with the lunar cycle . |
| 21 | She had never heard the whole story , but apparently some of his ideas were considered a little too daring for the traditionalists in Tokyo , and he found the rug pulled from under him . |
| 22 | He reviewed the changes made during his period as Soviet leader saying that " a totalitarian system which deprived the country of an opportunity to become wealthy and prosperous a long time ago has been liquidated " , and he expressed his hopes for the future : " Some mistakes could probably have been avoided , much been done better , but I am sure that sooner or later our shared efforts will achieve results . " |
| 23 | He has the course finished |
| 24 | He has the assurance conveyed by a lifetime of being admired . |
| 25 | He is a man used to having his orders carried out , and there is no doubt that he has the toughness needed for cleaning out the bank . |
| 26 | He panned the telescope left and right , but no horsemen showed in the evening sunlight . |
| 27 | By way of illustration , he described the loneliness experienced by many recently separated couples , even when they have longed for the divorce , and despite a great deal of support from companions . |
| 28 | He described the work done at WRc to develop a reliable method for analysis of microcystin-R , the most toxic of the hepatotoxins . |
| 29 | He used the oils produced from locally grown fruits such as bergamot , orange and lemon . |
| 30 | Not so much Allen Ginsberg as Alien Ginsberg , he handles the reverence expected of poetry meetings like a man beating a rat . |