Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] he [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a member of the Historic Rally Car Club he gained 1st place in his class and 11th overall in the series of eight rallies held at Longleat . |
| 2 | For the drawing room he printed golden lyres on what has now faded to a gold background , bands of crisp white ivy leaves on brown paper in the study , with dark green stripes on a green background for the dining room . |
| 3 | Well anyway Friday night he slept all night Saturday night he had her up all day ! |
| 4 | After gaining a doctorate in Chemical Engineering he spent three years lecturing at University College , Swansea and then , in 1967 , he became Professor of Chemical Engineering at Bradford University . |
| 5 | As Trade and Industry Secretary he had little trade and little industry to look after , continued the rebuker . |
| 6 | By the time that man gets to Riga he will know his way around the town and every detail of his life from the day his father gave him a light-brown teddy-bear , to the movie show he watched last night . |
| 7 | Back in Isaiah , chapter fifty three th the Old Testament prophet he paints that picture very graphically does n't he ? |
| 8 | PUNK violinist Nigel Kennedy got a dressing down yesterday — for failing to return a £400 robe he borrowed 14 months ago . |
| 9 | A director of a modern dance company , Bill T. Jones , a black American , is continuing the dance company he founded 20 years ago with his companion Arnie Zane , who died of AIDS in 1988 . |
| 10 | On Monday evening he gave fair warning of an increase in taxes , and spending cuts to reduce the expanding federal budget deficit . |
| 11 | The only way into his protective case was through a little trap door he kept locked night and day . |
| 12 | In one Sir Peter Middleton , the department 's top civil servant at the time , said it ‘ would be unreasonable ’ for Mr Lamont to pay all of the £23,000 bill he faced last April . |
| 13 | After urging measures upon the virtually comatose London committee of the Anti-Slavery Society he concluded urgent action would not follow ‘ unless the friends of the Cause in the Country exerted themselves without waiting for information and instructions from London and that many of our friends in London would be strengthened by a spontaneous movement in the Country ’ . |
| 14 | As a forest justice he earned some notoriety . |
| 15 | Under the tarpaulin sheet he had two mattresses and a discarded school seat . |
| 16 | Against Auckland at Eden Park he took five wickets in each innings and scored 110 in his first appearance at the crease . |
| 17 | Then on Wednesday night he forecast that interest rates would drop — fuelling the City boom . |
| 18 | In winning the Light Manx Courtney added on to his Junior win on Wednesday and this was in addition to the Newcomers success he scored last year . |
| 19 | He also knew how to live well by dining at expensive restaurants and going to the theatre , and as the Heritage Secretary he had invaluable contacts in the acting world . |
| 20 | When my father went on an embalming course he saw one fellah eating his sandwiches , reading a book propped against a body . |
| 21 | I 'm not forgetting Ashenden , ’ replied Morse quietly , as taking out his Parker pen he wrote three d.o.b.s on a table napkin : |
| 22 | Because log-normal distributions follow linear trends on the cumulative probability plot he considered each segment to represent a separate sub-population whose character was determined by the dynamics of transport : traction , saltation and suspension . |
| 23 | After six years as Chairman , he knew all the important party figures and he became a dangerous foe ; in the National Union he combined with Selborne to mount a campaign against coalition and as a Birmingham MP he threatened even- Austen Chamberlain 's home base . |
| 24 | ‘ As well as a £50,000 signing-on fee he wanted two cars and a nanny for his kids , plus his contract money . |
| 25 | In the damp dawn mist he radiated green light , tendrils of luminescence which reached from the points of his body into the canopy , and down to the earth . |
| 26 | Was this sort of fluey thing he had last week ? |
| 27 | The other poem which Coleridge wrote during his retreat , and the circumstances of its composition , have entered the mythology of English literary history : while staying at the Culbone farmhouse he took three grains of opium to relieve what he variously described as ‘ a dysentery ’ or ‘ a slight indisposition ’ , and in the deep reverie which followed composed two or three hundred lines of poetry ‘ without any sensation of consciousness of effort ’ . |
| 28 | Following the accession of George I , he seconded a motion of 12 April 1717 that English trade to the Baltic could not be carried on unless the king of Sweden was brought to reason , and during the South Sea crisis he advocated strong measures against the directors . |
| 29 | Today at Buckingham Magistrates court he denied thirteen breaches of the ban . |
| 30 | At Gloucerster Crown Court he admitted two charge of kidnap , but a month ago he escaped from a probation hostel . |