Example sentences of "[verb] he [noun sg] of the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In that year , also , L'Estrange 's ineptitude cost him control of the official news-books and Muddiman regained it because of the regard he had won from both secretaries of state .
2 An infection control policy should be available to staff , emphasising he importance of the safe disposal of sharps .
3 She later made him keeper of the musical archives of the Italian court .
4 692 , Wilfrid took refuge with Aethelred who made him bishop of the Middle Angles ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 45 ; HE IV , 23 ) and stood by him when Wilfrid refused to submit to Aldfrith and Archbishop Beorhtwald at the council of Austerfield c .
5 It is conceivable , too , that the Sihtric dux who witnesses three of Cnut 's charters may be the Dublin monarch Sihtric Silkbeard , who used dies evidently made for him in the mint at Chester to strike pennies naming him king of the Irish and modelled on Cnut 's Quatrefoil type .
6 But his form , in an often disappointing side with a fragile back-up , has at times been exceptional and kept him top of the national averages .
7 On 2 November 1715 , General Forster , who had now received a commission from the Earl of Mar appointing him Commander-in-Chief of the Jacobite forces in England , led his somewhat reluctant army through Longtown and Brampton towards Penrith , though the Highlanders with him had cheered up , and become noticeably more loyal , on being promised the handsome pay of sixpence [ 2.5p ] a day .
8 His 62 wickets at 7.28 put him top of the Minor County averages .
9 Here in the west of Ireland , we call him Balor of the Heavy Blows …
10 When the Constituent Assembly elected him President of the Provisional Government , eighty per cent of the public approved ( according to an opinion poll . )
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