Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] he [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She disliked the intimacy he showed towards some of them , was resentful of the memories they shared of which she was not a part , and felt excluded . |
| 2 | I heard Mick unzip the tent he shared with Paddy and hand him the tea . |
| 3 | She begrudged the sympathy he demanded from her ; and she suspected that he was knowingly manipulating her . |
| 4 | I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman not only for the sympathy he expressed to the families of those killed and injured , but for his support for the courageous efforts of the security forces . |
| 5 | It is ironic that Holmes 's acceptance of the meritocratic possibilities of democratisation should have led to an Act which allowed for the creation of the comprehensive school — but in fact the ideology he shared with other administrators was one that could embrace the comprehensive , which was , at times , argued in the context of a more successful way of providing a selective education . |
| 6 | A real threat existed , because she responded to him physically , a threat to so much that she valued as part of her individual identity , autonomy , independence , pride , all of which would be lost if ever the weakness he created in her led to her succumbing to the dark attraction he held for her . |
| 7 | The unity he had in mind was , ironically , that which had existed before Germany became a nation-state , the unity of the disunited rainbow of German states and principalities , the state of unity when Jews were legally inferior to Germans , when Poles were not a numerical threat , when expansion to the east had been easy , when the German people had not been a rising industrial power , when the massed levy of conscripts had been enough to rout their opponents . |
| 8 | He has a senior wife who lays the first egg in the scrape he makes in the ground for her . |
| 9 | I felt slightly uneasy with the direction he took in his last book , Under Siege , in which Coonts ' hero Jake Grafton forsook the jet fuel , grease and steam-slick decks of nuclear carriers for the even more treacherous corridors of the Pentagon , and The Cannibal Queen has n't reassured me that he 's back on track . |
| 10 | This is his favourite event , together with the Open — an event where he is as surprised as he is flattered by the support he gets from the British public . |
| 11 | Thus Vial got the support he asked for , and Huntingford , to whose untiring efforts the establishment and early functioning of the College was in very great measure due , was ignominiously dismissed . |
| 12 | William Agnew 's splendid efforts on behalf of the deaf of Glasgow could not have been entirely successful without the support he received from a number of other deaf individuals . |
| 13 | Redmond was overwhelmed by the support he received from the British public during and since the Olympics and asked to send a message through the Daily Mirror . |
| 14 | Given the buoyancy of Major 's chart , he should be able to gather the support he needs for tomorrow 's crucial debate for he is a tactical Capricorn-rising every bit as much as he is a stand-by-my-principles Aries . |
| 15 | The support he found amongst gentry and townsmen in eastern Sussex was not yet strong enough to guarantee victory . |
| 16 | ‘ He 'd been wearing this over the shirt he wore for the sitting , ’ Edwards said , ‘ and at the end of the last sitting just as he was leaving , as an afterthought , he said , ‘ Oh you better have this ’ and took it off and gave it to me , like the end of a football match . ’ |
| 17 | Ian Hunter , the two-try hero against Canada on his debut , reverts to his preferred full-back role knowing winger Nigel Heslop will go all-out to recapture the shirt he lost to Simon Halliday last season . |
| 18 | He turned into Blandford Street and found the call-box he sought on the corner with Chiltern Street , one of a bank of two . |
| 19 | The lieutenant he knew by sight only . |
| 20 | Once he had fitted in the rudder to keep the dinghy straight against the set of the tide he returned to the subject . |
| 21 | In Scotland at any rate , the judge will not give any indication of the sentence he has in mind on any particular pleas , and this obviously limits the effect of bargaining . |
| 22 | Collins ignored the tiredness he felt after scoring one of the goals which defeated Rangers to accompany team-mate Tom Boyd to Scotland 's base at Dunkeld last night . |
| 23 | In the afternoon he ran through light rain to buy a plane ticket home . |
| 24 | In the afternoon he escaped from a series of bonds and chains , accompanied by a good line in patter . |
| 25 | In the afternoon he starts by sleeping , then takes over the kitchen and insists on preparing extravagant five-course meals . |
| 26 | He stopped work and sued for the money he alleged to be owing . |
| 27 | Adam could afford it because of the money he got from the sale of Wyvis Hall and later from the sale of the London house he bought with the money from the sale of Wyvis Hall . |
| 28 | Well , the story was that Arnold Thomas was the ambitious one , while the old man was content to live on the money he got from leasing the land to them as paid the price , usually folk who wanted a storage area or distribution centre . |
| 29 | Jean-Claude — unable to support Ahmed himself , even with the money he raised from the sale of my belongings — wanted Otto to support him . |
| 30 | There was a much-told tale of her Australian infancy that was held to be prophetic in this respect — about how at the age of three she had , by the sheer force of her will , compelled her uncle Walter ( who was taking her for a walk to the local shops at the time ) to put all the money he had on his person into a charity collecting-box in the shape of a plaster-of-Paris boy cripple ; as a result of which the uncle , too embarrassed to admit to this folly and borrow from his relatives , had run out of petrol on the way back to his sheep station . |