Example sentences of "[verb] he [art] " in BNC.

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1 Jack 's magnificent start with the Eagles could win him a dramatic recall for Australia in next month 's World Cup final against Great Britain .
2 They had no idea that his old world manners and charm would win him the love of the most eligible divorcee in the land , the Princess Royal , Princess Anne .
3 Activity in these roles absorbs most of his time and energy : it will win him the popularity essential to his reelection .
4 Rather than treating the foreign investor as a rival , we should consider him a valuable helper , for he increases our production and the efficiencies of our business .
5 Still , he thought , as long as Richmann considered him a superstitious peasant , he would n't consider him a threat .
6 But he 's a long way to go before I 'd consider him a success .
7 He needed a drink before he spoke to McGann , and Dowd , ever the anticipator , had already mixed him a whisky and soda , but he forsook it for fear it would loosen his tongue .
8 Very few people took Gedge 's humour the wrong way , but on one of those occasions an NME reviewer labelled him a ‘ gawky , arrogant mighty mouth . ’
9 He conquered one of Europe 's toughest courses , the tour 's strongest field and the critics who labelled him a loser with his sudden-death triumph over Colin Montgomerie , elevating him back among the world 's leading players .
10 When he first started to air his views on intensive farming methods they labelled him a crank and hoped he would go away .
11 He alleged Ambrose last year consistently labelled him a ‘ coward ’ because he backed away from the West Indian fast bowling , and that Richards was the most verbal player of all .
12 It implies that the Prime Minister has permitted him the freedom ‘ to take whatever action is needed ’ in the past .
13 Send him a wire as you leave town .
14 I shall make sure that I send him a copy of my speech tomorrow , which will give detail after detail of what is actually taking place in the valleys .
15 When the trial began in late February 1710 , huge crowds gathered to escort the doctor back and forth from his lodgings to Westminster Hall , shouting that they wished " God would Bless him and send him a happy deliverance " .
16 All you need to know about Brian is that in the Sixties one of his friends send him a postcard of planet Earth with a message saying : ‘ Wish you were here . ’
17 They send him a free one every six months !
18 If the price of an earl is what he asks , send him an earl .
19 In fact , there have been many discussions caused by Johnny — and his girlfriend who seems to do very little other than build up her tan on a beach and send him the odd letter in a bottle .
20 highways and that sort of thing , and he does go to Farnsfield , and he does go to Oxford and back , and really all you need do is just send him , you need n't send him the minutes here , you just send him the notice of the meeting
21 but I mean you send the package out and you get a phone call er it 's Mr Davies , and then you get card out and then you send him the questionnaire it 's merely a record duplicated on the form but
22 Martin Amis in 1980 when his Money could n't buy him a decent shirt
23 Soon , Freddy was asking if Mr Schwartz might buy him a suit .
24 Generally I 'd buy him a second-hand suit and take it up .
25 How I wished I could buy him a record-player for all those useless records , but there was no point in thinking along those lines , so in the end I got him a belt , made of different coloured woven leathers , very gay and rather spivvy , only of course it would n't look spivvy on him .
26 He followed her up to the bar and she heard him noisily latching on to Riley who , she was positive , would not buy him a drink .
27 Maybe I should buy him a place in the country .
28 His witty daughter , who attends Gwladys Street Primary School in the shadow of Everton 's Goodison Park , says : ‘ I 'll buy him a nice present and we 'll have a little tea party for him .
29 I 'll buy him a packet of fags for erm taking us out
30 and he all he took was , like it was funny he got accepted into Oxford decided he was gon na buy him a bottle of champagne .
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