Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made himself agreeable to the earl 's squires in the stableyard , and kept his ears open for any revealing mentions of Robert Bossu 's tastes , temperament and interests , and what he garnered was encouraging . |
| 2 | He made himself ill with the worry . |
| 3 | But Under-21 boss Craig Brown said : ‘ I felt Darren was unfortunate , but he made it easy for the official by a slight push . |
| 4 | He made it possible for the duke and his eight-months pregnant duchess to rush back from Germany to Kensington Palace for the birth , putting up the royal cavalcade at his home in Shooter 's Hill on the way . |
| 5 | He plays us some of the interview material on the ‘ Talking Blues ’ LP , staring into the distance while it fills the plain office . |
| 6 | That was how he built something extra into the programme . ’ |
| 7 | he found himself deep in the shit ! |
| 8 | Benn was so impressed with Ceauşescu 's Romania that he found nothing odd in the following suggestion from Bruno Pittermann , the former chairman of Kreisky 's Austrian Socialist Party : ‘ Pittermann said he would like to see parliamentary links with Romania , Poland and Yugoslavia , and to study their election process and procedure . |
| 9 | Hackney racing manager Michael Marks , who said he found nothing wrong with the running of the race , will remember Black Thursday for other reasons . |
| 10 | Churchill was prime minister , and though he found it politic in the face of American and Labour pressure to allow negotiations about India 's constitutional future to go on , at the same time he ensured that all such negotiations came to nought . |
| 11 | Without missing a wing beat , he bore her high above the city and flew on . |
| 12 | He used it all on the pond , I reckon . |
| 13 | He told me all about the background to the picture , what Rembrandt probably felt like at that time , what he was trying to say , how he said it . |
| 14 | When I was getting better , he told me some of the local news . |
| 15 | He surveyed it all from the safety of the trees . |
| 16 | And he listened , he would n't really say what he had been doing , but later he showed me some of the things he 'd done in the Hebrides . |
| 17 | His pictures vary in style : in his later days he showed himself capable of the common sort of conventionally flattering portrait , but , particularly from his earlier years in London , there exists a body of work demonstrating his great talent for lively detail and natural rather than conventional compositions . |
| 18 | He stated himself pleased with the general appearance and appointments of the unit . |
| 19 | As he handed her one of the glasses their eyes met briefly , and it occurred to Lisa , for just a fleeting instant , that he was feeling almost as nervous as she was . |
| 20 | He shook himself free of the hood and pulled the shawl off his head , his face burning in humiliation . |
| 21 | Then his head dipped towards her and he kissed her full on the lips , a harsh , plundering kiss that robbed her of breath and left her trembling beneath him . |
| 22 | As the black perfume came tumbling over his breast , and he kissed it sweet in the moonlight , a sweet in the moonlight , and he tugged at his reigns in the moonlight , and galloped away to the west . |
| 23 | He pulled them both under the blanket , cradled her to him , crooned words that meant nothing in her ear , kissed new tears from her cheeks . |
| 24 | He covered them both with the cool sheets but he had no intention of giving up his questioning . |
| 25 | David Nobbs i in London for the preview and he professes himself pleased with the TV version . |
| 26 | Still with his hands cuffed in front of him , he took it full on the jaw . |
| 27 | In Berlin , Bismarck let it be known that he saw nothing wrong with the proposed solution , though he backed away from too openly supporting it in the face of a general outcry from the other European courts . |
| 28 | One day he saw them both through the window of a hotel bar when he was sitting on a bus in Shaftesbury Avenue . |
| 29 | And then he blew it all at the last minute with that interference . |
| 30 | While he is dealing with waiting list figures , will he tell us more about the figures for day patients ? |