Example sentences of "he [verb] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We order you to cause the said oaks to be delivered to him in the place which is most suitable for transporting them , and to assist him to find men to cut them down and carry them , at our expense . |
| 2 | ‘ Would n't it be less risky for him to employ others to do his dirty work ? ’ |
| 3 | She makes him wear slippers to save her carpet . |
| 4 | He made appointments to see our solicitor that afternoon , and the bank manager the next . |
| 5 | In the house where he lived radios switched themselves on and off and piano keys started playing when the lid was down . |
| 6 | Once , when an officer questioned his right to keep the carriage empty , he produced papers to prove his case and the officer left to fight for a seat somewhere else . |
| 7 | There was a , a very touching erm and I think rather important book erm published in about nineteen sixty-nine , called The School I 'd Like , which was edited by Edward Blisham , in which he got children to describe what they thought the ideal school was like . |
| 8 | He revealed figures showing it is almost twice as expensive to house a family in bed and breakfast accommodation than it is to build a family home . |
| 9 | He invited neighbours to meet me , cajoled them into opening their houses , and sent word on my behalf down every tendril of the Goan grapevine . |
| 10 | At the office during the week he found circumstances made it necessary for him to ring most of his influential friends and acquaintances — Sims , the paper 's tame lawyer ; Sir William Paice ; Brent-Williamson , the Literary Editor ; Huysmanns at the French Embassy . |
| 11 | Knox was invited to return ; but when he reached Dieppe , he found messages telling him that the time was not ripe . |
| 12 | He provided frames to enable anyone to derive four major word classes — noun , verb , adjective and adverb . |
| 13 | The authorities need not follow his recommendations , but like his counterparts in England and Wales , he has powers to cap their Community Charge levels if he judges that they are overspending . |
| 14 | He has dreams like I have dreams . |
| 15 | You will want to talk to him about home , and he has things to ask you . |
| 16 | Still , it is not that he wants biologists to give them more credit for maintaining the planet . |
| 17 | He wants residents to help him gather a mountain of cans , aluminium or tin , to be recycled on May 6 . |
| 18 | He says things like they are . |
| 19 | How he twisted things to suit himself ! she thought angrily . |
| 20 | Not only does the boy ‘ wear ’ the appropriate external features , he uses words to enhance his simulations : ‘ I am so happy ’ is his way of making sure the observers get the message ! |
| 21 | Mr Maginnis 's 12 years as a councillor ended when he advised voters to give their first preferences to his two party colleagues . |
| 22 | ‘ He allows players to give their views . |
| 23 | CHRIS COBLEY follows-up last month 's fascinating interview with a look at the reasons why he prefers herbs to treat his fish . |
| 24 | He spent weeks nerving himself up to get a big whale picture , or maybe a dolphin . |
| 25 | He heard footsteps passing his door as someone made their way home . |
| 26 | Does not this place give the Prime Minister the chance to show whether he is really against the smears that have been organised against the Labour party , or is he getting others to do his dirty work for him ? |
| 27 | He called meetings to solicit their views and thus began his own experiments with what was effectively community architecture . |
| 28 | Mr Clinton 's televised remarks last night were expected to echo themes he raised in a Saturday radio broadcast in which he urged Americans to embrace his programme of economic change and shared sacrifice to lift the country back to prosperity . |
| 29 | He rang police to say she was missing — and was told she had been killed under the wheels of a tractor . |
| 30 | Sometimes he would sleep in them and wear them unchanged the next day , but at other times he took hours to choose what he would wear , then positively preened . |