Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] he [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bratby was intrigued by Minton and soon after he got to know him painted a huge picture on paper , entitled ‘ Homage to John Minton ’ . |
| 2 | From what he has heard he fears the worst about the likelihood of a quick turnaround on the field . |
| 3 | Germany pulled out of the joint project in July , but finance minister Theo Waigel has said he favours a scaled-down version of the plane costing £36 million to avoid job losses in times of recession . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | EC commissioner Frans Andriessen , the EC 's chief negotiator , has said he has no immediate plans to meet US negotiators but developments could come today after a meeting of EC foreign ministers in Brussels . |
| 6 | Hindley has made him become a poor , dull farm worker . |
| 7 | He started taking his own photographs to publicise his collections when he got impatient with photographers who did not understand what he was trying to say ; this has lead him to launch a parallel career as a photographer and his work is much in demand by magazines who like his candid portraits of such luminaires as Caroline of Monaco . |
| 8 | At one level this has enabled him to achieve the considerable feat of maintaining reasonably stable government for more than twenty years . |
| 9 | Having bought back this establishment from his former employers , Trusthouse Forte , his new freedom from the body corporate has inspired him to create a serious £23 dinner menu and leave the comfortable grey-blue decor well alone . |
| 10 | Now his landlord , the Allied Brewery group , has invited him to accept a 10-year lease at a starting price of £36,000 a year . |
| 11 | The Argentinian has a permanent wrist injury caused by pounding too many balls on hard practice grounds , which has forced him to use an unorthodox fore-knuckle left- hand grip . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Now his success has been recognised by the Football League , which has chosen him to manage a Second Division Select 11 to play an equivalent team from the Italian League — at Caserta on the 4th of March . |
| 14 | I I 'd heard he wrote a few things . |
| 15 | If the driver still refuses to wait he commits a further possible offence , but there is no power to detain or ‘ arrest ’ the vehicle . |
| 16 | But to the right of the window he 'd opened he found an old ivy creeper clawed to the brickwork . |
| 17 | He 'd thought he had the longest living hamster in captivity . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It is about a guy struggling from one crisis to the next and part of the appeal is that he is not particularly likeable , so you do n't mind seeing him get a rough deal , but like an awkward Grandfather you hopethings will turn out OK . |
| 20 | He added : ‘ I 'd like to see him scoring a few more goals . ’ |
| 21 | I 'd like to see him have a few failures and see how he handles that . ’ |
| 22 | So somehow it was reassuring to find he had a sore throat when I saw him last Thursday . |
| 23 | He had a wealth of stories she had loved to listen to , and in return had agreed to help him begin a proper catalogue of his collection . |
| 24 | When Willie Ofahengaue gets going he takes an awful lot of stopping , so the Baa-Baas need to prevent him getting into top gear . |
| 25 | He had all the social skills : I remember watching him tap a mesmeric foot to the tune of ‘ I Scream , You Scream , We All Scream for Ice Cream ’ . |
| 26 | He was giving a dramatic reading of a newspaper report of a murder trial , and we all enjoyed watching him act the main characters . |
| 27 | Since she must have known he had no sexual interest in her , she did n't complain too much . |
| 28 | He seems to think he has the moral right to usurp him , completely ignoring the woman who nurtured him through his last worst year . |
| 29 | The Establishment of Jesus 's day would have liked him to establish a political kingdom for the Jews , but he said , ‘ My Kingdom is not of this world . ’ |
| 30 | 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 ’ . |