Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made them by scattering his droppings over the sky and this is why the grass and the trees grow so thick on the world . |
| 2 | And he hates me for giving in to them , and for seeing how he 's shrunk . |
| 3 | He sang aloud , in what he amused himself by imagining was a passable accent , ‘ Oh you tak the high road and I 'll tak the low . |
| 4 | In the meantime he amused himself by feeding Dwarf captives to Gobbla , the enormous , malodorous and psychopathically vicious Cave Squig which he kept firmly chained to his left leg . |
| 5 | I was 45 before I spoke with Toscanini and then he attacked me for doing Debussy 's Pelléas et Mélisande at La Scala in French . |
| 6 | He rebuked me for liking it . |
| 7 | He produced it by heating red mercuric oxide with a 12 inch diameter burning glass . |
| 8 | He produced it by burning at high temperatures finely pulverized lime with clay in certain proportions , and grinding the product . |
| 9 | He concerned himself with alleviating the slave-like conditions of negroes in the West Indies , and when war broke out in the United States in 1861 he worked at getting financial and material support for emancipated negroes . |
| 10 | Where or with whom James received his training is not known , but by 1783 he was established in London ; and in that year he announced himself by publishing a pamphlet on A Method of Constructing Vapour Baths , and began to exhibit at the Royal Academy . |
| 11 | " He asked me to met him several times a year , I tried to advise him , to tell him how I saw things in the world . " |
| 12 | He got me into pickpocketing , doing cheques and all them kind of things . |
| 13 | He thinks nothing of staying up till two or three o'clock in the morning in casinos , although I tell him it 's very , very bad for one 's constitution to have irregular hours . |
| 14 | He thinks nothing of doing business with the pariahs of the UN . |
| 15 | He redeemed himself by sending over a good cross for P Reid to put the Olympic in front . |
| 16 | He prides himself on delivering on the optimum date to balance the welfare of mother and baby , and his percentage of vaginal deliveries over Caesarean is amazingly high — which is great , these days . |
| 17 | For Helfet , the design 's acceptance is a particular triumph , since he prides himself on understanding the Jaguar ethos . |
| 18 | At the end of that time ‘ he qualified himself for practising whether as a physician or a surgeon ’ , and returned to Bedfordshire where , ‘ with the consent of the Clergy and the local practitioners , he attended the destitute poor ’ . |
| 19 | When one player meets another he challenges him by saying , ‘ Smee ’ . |
| 20 | The young man 's brother wrote to Lord Panmure to see if David could make the best of the situation in which he found himself by obtaining a midshipman 's place . |
| 21 | He found them before putting them through the saw ? |
| 22 | Nevertheless , he found it worth enquiring , as Presidents of the BAAS were wont to do , whether ‘ sufficient facilities for education in science exist or are in progress in our country ; and whether Government or other important bodies provide sufficient encouragement and reward for its prosecution ’ . |
| 23 | Anxious to do things properly , however , Charles sought the best specialist advice which he could get ; he found it by consulting eminent jurists of the legal centres of Bologna , Montpellier , Orléans , and Toulouse . |
| 24 | From then on he devoted himself to buying , selling and exhibiting horses , travelling the length and breadth of Britain in his quest for outstanding stock . |
| 25 | He goaded himself by picturing the ageing President , grey-haired and frail . |
| 26 | He has not only tarnished his relationship with Leeds United Football Club ( the club that he owes everything to including his 2.75M price tag ) , he also shit on the manager and those players who are left at the club , who helped him win a championship medal . |
| 27 | Then he disappointed her by saying he was checking whether it was possible for someone to go in and out unobserved , and how crowded it would be at that time of day . |
| 28 | She exacerbates all his old anxieties and feelings of ambivalence towards ‘ mothers ’ , and because he can not cope , he defends himself by ignoring her as far as possible . |
| 29 | He tricked me into telling him . |
| 30 | ‘ He tricked me into employing him to look after my boats simply in order to gain access to my cousin . |