Example sentences of "he [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the activity around his earth , and the fact that there were a mere three hounds , had combined to make him think the open country might be safer today ; now they 'd given him proof that it was n't . |
| 2 | Beside him sit the other island dignitaries , the representatives of each of the six communities into which the island is divided . |
| 3 | Blocking the BA/USAir deal would have required him to renounce the current aviation treaty between the two countries which would have been ‘ a very dramatic step ’ . |
| 4 | Blocking the BA/USAir deal would have required him to renounce the current aviation treaty between the two countries which would have been ‘ a very dramatic step ’ . |
| 5 | And so just as Jesus showed his at-one-ment with us , he now asks us to show our at-one-ment with him , and join him to continue the Great Battle until the final defeat of Evil and the ‘ restoration of all things ’ . |
| 6 | But that did not prevent him seeing the possible significance of what she had told him . |
| 7 | Few of his ministers are saying , even in private , that they expect him to lose the next election . |
| 8 | It would have seemed strange to those who had known Nigel in his early days as a conscientious objector to find him cheering the prime minister through the Falklands War . |
| 9 | Chief Inspector Salter was anxious to see him and she had made an appointment for him to see the Chief Superintendent later that day . |
| 10 | His years as a sculptor had taught him to see the human figure in solid , three-dimensional form , and his people now have necks like columns , oval or elongated faces and noses sharply drawn , as if cut into the planes of the face . |
| 11 | ‘ I was telling Sir Henry that it was rather late in the year for him to see the true beauty of the moor . ’ |
| 12 | Let him make the first move . |
| 13 | A month later a high-ranking army officer had heard him deliver the following verdict on integration : " They are not Provenals or Languedocians . |
| 14 | However , maybe Stalinvast still survived , and the Tormentum Malorum might yet leave the warp in time for him to compel the old woman to send a signal to save the situation . |
| 15 | Fanatics carry a huge ball and chain , a weapon so large that it would be impossible for a Goblin to pick up in normal circumstances , but the Fanatic 's strength is boosted by fungus beer enabling him to swing the heavy ball round and round . |
| 16 | But as I watched him pick his way along the lifeless paths , I understood how much of him expected the whole world to be mournful now that Montaine had abandoned it . |
| 17 | Despite Dick Crossman 's native love of a row , there was not sufficient of the political fighter about him to light the blue touchpaper regardless . |
| 18 | This gravely restricted Law 's room for manoeuvre and made it impossible for him to accept the only compromise that Asquith could offer . |
| 19 | Bubbling with enthusiasm , Fr Cunningham , 80 , said it was the opportunity to work with children which prompted him to accept the latest offer of as a ‘ first step to retirement ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ But will he if the person facing him has the same weapon ? |
| 21 | Maxim reached around him to pull the front door shut and ushered him down to the car . |
| 22 | DeVore watched him place the sealed slide back into the padded , shocksafe case and draw another out . |
| 23 | I said I 'd let him know the total number of , of contact days or whatever with Sherburn over the period so that is something I need to get from you Bill . |
| 24 | ‘ Perhaps those are sounds you could use in your own composition , ’ speculates the school 's head of music , Paul Chamberlain , whose quest for strange noises has led to the possibility of him poaching the National Curriculum 's science of sound course from Fartown 's physics department . |
| 25 | If Bloom is every kind of Dubliner it is because it falls to him to transact the unfinished business , to enact it and to get beyond it without dazzling gifts . |
| 26 | I saw him driving the other day , tell you that ? |
| 27 | Although Harold Wilson did not equate with Bevan in personal terms — in colour or in rhetoric — he too can feel pleased that the condemnation that in many quarters was directed at him demonstrated the genuine respect for his qualities that his adversaries feared . |
| 28 | Morse thanked the man , and walked along to the ramp at the side of the flats , and down to a concreted area where five garages directly in front of him shielded the immediate view . |
| 29 | Beside him stands the black guy . |
| 30 | That morning , just after Sullivan had received a cable form Washington telling him to inform the new government that the United States would continue diplomatic relations with Iran , machine guns mounted on the surrounding buildings all opened up in a pre-arranged barrage . |