Example sentences of "he [verb] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Angie Bowie : ‘ I never realized and had never been involved in who did what , but I suppose that amounts to , if one wants to look at it from Ken 's point of view , being the fly in the ointment , or of one wants to look at it from a real point of view as , in terms of property settlement and management , that I was being David 's manager at that particular time , because it was possible for me to advise him to do something about the things that really troubled him artistically . |
| 2 | Every time I 've asked him to do anything in the last three days , I ca n't , working out the quiz . |
| 3 | It was so unusual for him to contribute anything to the conversation that Paula glanced at him in surprise . |
| 4 | I gave him £1 … then watched him ask everyone in the station . |
| 5 | During the course of the market process the competitive efforts of a particular producer-entrepreneur may lead him to offer something to the market which no one else is currently producing . |
| 6 | All the same , Connor suggested to him privately that it might not be a bad idea for him to learn something about the art of self-defence , and offered to give him some lessons . |
| 7 | I watched him put something in the captain 's hand . |
| 8 | Was she waiting for him to say something about the letter ? |
| 9 | They could never get him to tell anything about the life he had lived before he came to Knockglen . |
| 10 | In this journey , in which we are all engaged , it is photography which has allowed him to achieve something for the first time without struggling — given him a means of craft and communication which feels right and matches his natural capacities as well as being able to respond to his intuition . |
| 11 | In this journey , in which we are all engaged , it is photography which has allowed him to achieve something for the first time without struggling — given him a means of craft and communication which feels right and matches his natural capacities as well as being able to respond to his intuition . |
| 12 | He kept two in the house , one equipped with a bell so that he could ring should he want anything in the grave ! |
| 13 | He whispered something into the ear of my dishevelled companion , who produced a bundle wrapped in old copies of Pravda . |
| 14 | As he stowed everything in the boot , Ashley noticed dark smudges beneath his eyes . |
| 15 | But what so i it does he think something from the ga cos it keep coming on and off ? |
| 16 | It was only too apparent , as Olga tore into him about the disgrace she would suffer , that , like a hippie , he cared nothing for the kind of life his parents led ; he did not share their values or ambitions . |
| 17 | Gombert 's linear sense — and sometimes Crecquillon 's and Lupi 's was so strong that he cared nothing for the asperities of harsh suspensions or accented passing-notes , as in this passage from his motet , ‘ Ave sanctissima Maria ’ : |
| 18 | ‘ She says he met someone from the convent on the night that Lady Eleanor died , and that Father Reynard did go to Godstowe but then disappeared until the next morning . ’ |
| 19 | He got nothing like the price of it . |
| 20 | He got everything into the character that I wanted . |
| 21 | I mean , he sell anything in the clothes line , anything . |
| 22 | And he thinks nothing of the travelling to and from training . |
| 23 | Glancing through a file ( which Harry took to be Heather 's ) with the pursed lips and darting eyes of an auditor perusing an unsatisfactory set of accounts , he conveyed none of the warmth or insight which Harry supposed successful psychoanalysis to require . |
| 24 | They prepared Cameron for his appearance in the High Court of Justiciary by one final interview , a dry recapitulation of what had been said before , with the slightest of hints that it would go well for him if he divulged something about the United Scotsmen , who evidently still preyed on their minds . |
| 25 | What gets me about this guy Alderson is that he served in the country area of Cornwall , and he makes all these proposals about inner-city policing ; now how the hell would he know anything about the inner city ? |
| 26 | I mean , frankly , does he know anything about the inner workings of central heating ? ’ |
| 27 | No answer , but perhaps he found something in the watchful face that was not quite mute , for he smiled , and deep within the hollow eyes a spark kindled . |
| 28 | He found one near the exit where the checkout girl was just opening up and Mum wheeled her trolley into the space . |
| 29 | He helped everybody in the local community . |
| 30 | Holding it up , he shouts something to the two Tibetans by the fire . |