Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then there is Christine Villemin , whose 4-year-old son Gregory was found near the village in the Vosges where he lived , floating in a river with his hands tied behind his back . |
| 2 | Television came in the wake of other consumer durables : a vacuum cleaner and a boiler for the washing — once used to cook a lobster my father has brought back from the Highlands where he 's been on a spell of painting stations that will be closed by the Beeching plan a decade later . |
| 3 | It would appear , however , that Chalmers is content at the Greenyards where he considers the quality of the coaching to be among the ‘ highest at club level in the UK . ’ |
| 4 | The Argentina captain said yesterday he was unrepentant , but added : ‘ If I have to say sorry I will , ’ for his remarks on Tuesday that he believed the draw was decided in advance , putting Argentina in the hardest group . |
| 5 | Labour MP Don Dixon had said in the Commons on Tuesday that he believed Mr Fallon could have abused Parliament 's pre-paid mailing facilities . |
| 6 | Lindner announced on Aussie network TV on Saturday that he 'd signed for Leeds , but Davies said they still had n't received final confirmation from the player . |
| 7 | It is typical of Richard that he accepted the task with alacrity and succeeded with such brilliance that almost overnight he became recognized as a famous warrior . |
| 8 | Erm , again a suggestion from Richard that he feel , that we feel we need a new , a procedure for creating a procedure . |
| 9 | A deal would need two big concessions from Mr Gorbachev that he balked at last year . |
| 10 | When her mentor , Louis Leakey , sent out the young photographer Hugo Van Lawick to photograph the chimpanzees at Gombe , he wrote to Vanne that he 'd found just the husband for Jane . |
| 11 | The Soviet Foreign Minister , Mr Eduard Shevardnadze , said in Brussels that he had no specific details of the unrest but that any intervention by the security forces was highly regrettable . |
| 12 | Three weeks earlier they had devoted a page to the story that another of his girlfriends , actress Rebecca Broussard , aged twenty-six , was expecting his baby , revealing that he was ‘ excitedly looking forward to playing daddy , but the bed-jumping Joker has flatly told Rebecca that he had no intention of marrying her . ’ |
| 13 | The older man explained softly : ‘ The President has more enemies in the United States than he does in England . |
| 14 | Even though it seems only to have been conditional independence the terms were so alarming to General Valluy that he flew back to Paris to warn the French Government and the outcome was a special cabinet meeting at which hardly anyone supported the Bollaert initiative . |
| 15 | He drew from it the photograph of Elsie McAndrew that he had shown to Mrs Wilson in London . |
| 16 | Mrs Bridges maintained : ‘ Mr Newton admitted on Friday that he had made up his end of the story . |
| 17 | Callaghan told Joel Barnett that he had never felt so depressed , and the news spread . |
| 18 | Maritza and the new Luxembourg were better for Therese than he liked , but he 'd got her pushed out of the Baron and she would really look very silly singing Arsena , which was the juvenile role even if it was fairly static — and she would be even more ridiculous playing Sonja in Der Zarewitsch . |
| 19 | I told David that he had to get off and at least stand on the platform because it was the city where the Czar was murdered . |
| 20 | If watching plays is so painful for David that he wishes he were somewhere else , then I for one would be glad to take his place . |
| 21 | In Washington the state department said Mr Yeltsin had sent a message assuring the United States that he remained committed to democracy , human rights and civic order . |
| 22 | Pip first uses it when he confesses to Biddy that he wants to be a gentleman for Estella 's sake . |
| 23 | The inspired stroke of telling Othello that he has been witness to one of Casio 's incriminatingly erotic dreams is here popped into Iago 's head because Casio does , at one point , actually hug him in his sleep . |
| 24 | However , so keen was Germi to get Dustin that he had made him co-producer , and allowed him equal say as to how the role was to be played . |
| 25 | It occurred to Edward that he knew little or nothing about rook behaviour . |
| 26 | He says he 's only seen sunflowers in the United States so he went home and got his camera to take some pictures . |
| 27 | Fribble started to speak again , but received such a blazing look from Fael-Inis that he subsided . |
| 28 | The president told aircraft workers at the company 's plant in Seattle that he believed a lot of the redundancies would not have been announced ‘ had it not been for the $26 billion that the US stood by and let Europe plough into Airbus over the last several years ’ . |
| 29 | The second quarter promised to show a further profit on both Charlie 's enterprises , and he warned Becky that he had his eye on the butcher 's shop , since the owner 's only boy had lost his life at Passchendaele . |
| 30 | From thence he progressed into Formula Ford , with an Alexis that he bought on the never-never . |