Example sentences of "[verb] he [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | His telegraph then went on " This afternoon General Robertson , Chief Administrative Officer AFHQ requested us to concur in a draft telegram to CG British Eighth Army authorising him to turn over 28,000 Cossacks ( see our 797 of October 16 , 1944 Midnight ) , including women and children to Marshal Tolbukhin , and further instructing him to turn over to Yugoslav Partisans a large number of dissident Yugoslav troops with exception of Chetniks . " |
2 | Only in the past two decades ( he was 88 when he died last week ) has he spoken out in public , and in the liberal persuasion , on matters such as disarmament in Britain 's policy on nuclear weapons , matters that occupied a great deal of his professional life in government . |
3 | Schiefer says he brought back from Thai land environmental samples taken well away from areas of reported attacks . |
4 | He sees the introduction of compulsory competitive tendering as a career turning point which encouraged him to move back to local government work . |
5 | The necessity to provide enough material to fill 20 or so pages of Tinsley 's Magazine each month exerted its own pressure , forcing him to fall back on recent autobiographical and architectural experiences , but appropriately when the novel appeared in book-form in May 1873 to favourable reviews it was the first to bear his name on the title-page . |
6 | Trevor has often wondered whether this made him grow up with silly fussy habits which irritated the girls with whom he would like to have been involved . |
7 | ‘ Well , that 's the first thing we have to make him see , then we need to get him to come in for regular counselling sessions . ’ |
8 | He taught her brother how to roll a cigarette , and she remembered him doubling up with delighted laughter as the boy coughed and spluttered on his first smoke . |
9 | The child 's own feelings were split between mortification at a christening that doomed him to live out for good a pun that he could already see to be gruesome and pride that his father had cared for him enough to embed him into his act by the very roots of his name . |
10 | Imagine if , for instance , we could get him standing up in public , get him photographed , on newsreel , all around the world , saying that we were fighting a just war , that Hitler was insane , that we had to win . |
11 | I think he set out in plain language the priorities which Britain needs to address and which the present government is failing us on . |
12 | To his great credit he comes up with no easy answers , but nor does he give in to glib despair . |