Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] he [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From what he has heard he fears the worst about the likelihood of a quick turnaround on the field . |
| 2 | In terms of foreign investment in US carriers , the transportation secretary , Federico Pena , has said he favours the current 25 per cent limit on voting stock owned by foreign investors and the 49 per cent limit on their overall investment . |
| 3 | At one level this has enabled him to achieve the considerable feat of maintaining reasonably stable government for more than twenty years . |
| 4 | In video-taped evidence , Mr Reagan has admitted he approved the covert arms for hostages operation , that became known as the Iran Contra affair , although he says he did n't authorise his staff to break the law . |
| 5 | He 'd thought he had the longest living hamster in captivity . |
| 6 | The plaintiff himself did not give evidence , so there was no evidence ( as opposed to submissions ) as to what the plaintiff would have done had he known the full facts . |
| 7 | He was giving a dramatic reading of a newspaper report of a murder trial , and we all enjoyed watching him act the main characters . |
| 8 | He seems to think he has the moral right to usurp him , completely ignoring the woman who nurtured him through his last worst year . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | After he 'd finished reading he closed the last one almost reverently , and handed them back to her . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A month later a high-ranking army officer had heard him deliver the following verdict on integration : " They are not Provenals or Languedocians . |
| 15 | Cornelius signalled by a flicker of one eyebrow that he knew Harry had expected him to say the exact reverse . |
| 16 | The Hibs manager , Alex Miller , was also disappointed , because leading scorer , Darren Jackson , had failed to shake off the stomach injury which had seen him miss the Scottish Cup victory over Cowdenbeath earlier in the week . |
| 17 | They had had faith , they had seen Jesus perform miracles , they had seen him heal the sick , they had seen him give sight to the blind , they had seen some of the tremendous things that Jesus had done . |
| 18 | The times had made him mistrust the militant kinds of heroism , though he unjustly saw himself as deficient in fortitude of another sort . |
| 19 | His colleague Fleming 's humiliation on horseback had made him dread the same thing for himself . |
| 20 | If my list of cons against Alfieri seems great , it does not mean I dislike everything he does for as I 've said he plays the important role of introduction and conclusion which I like especially and count as a clever idea on the part of Miller . |
| 21 | What was worse , wearing it had obliged him to fasten the top button of his shirt , an exercise which had drawn his attention to an extra half inch of fat his neck had gained since the last such occasion . |
| 22 | She thought suddenly that she had taken Dr Neil for granted , that she had not fully realised either his hard work or his dedication , and for the first time understood the impulse which had caused him to leave the cushioned life of a younger son of a good family and become an East End doctor instead . |
| 23 | I hope this helps you to see that it does not matter at all whether that regression to his past life was factual or whether Barry 's subconscious had caused him to invent the whole thing in his imagination . |
| 24 | Allen said Soon-Yi had asked him to take the nude photos . |
| 25 | However he welcomed the manner in which the new law had resolved the " most serious " objections which had led him to veto the 1990 version , and had made it clear that US government " requests " to third countries or private citizens for help in covert actions did not need to be reported to Congress . |
| 26 | Since the Hungarians had forced him to accept the famous ‘ Compromise ’ of June 1867 which divided the Austrian dominions , Franz-Joseph 's field of action in foreign policy was limited by pressures from the Hungarian half of the Empire . |
| 27 | He sat up alongside her , but she refused to look at him , refused to let him witness the wet film over her eyes . |