Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flight lieutenant Fraser Boyd does n't like heights ; With that in mind he hopes the final adjustments he 's making in dock in Plymouth will render a return visits unnecessary while half way across the Atlantic . |
| 2 | Mr McNally : ‘ Is it correct that on each and every interview he denied the two charges ? ’ |
| 3 | In effect he adopted the same methods to deal with worsening financial crises over the 1960s . |
| 4 | Cutting across country in the morning light he saw the Japanese transports moored peacefully in Dili harbour . |
| 5 | On 18 December he addressed the Liberal MPs assembled at the National Liberal Club , making what one observer called ‘ the speech of his life ’ . |
| 6 | Through the carved window he saw the wet branches of the evergreens , darker on the dark . |
| 7 | At the bottom he found the three letters CIS and asked what it was . |
| 8 | shortly after his arrival back in England he founded the famous Pathfinders , eventually retiring from the RAF as an Air Vice Marshal . |
| 9 | With Walter Crane [ q.v. ] and W. A. S. Benson he organized the first arts and crafts exhibition in Crane Street in 1888 . |
| 10 | For a moment he studied the two women , comparing them . |
| 11 | For a surprising moment he forgot the strict rules of his church . |
| 12 | In later years he visited the four dominions , for each of which he established a graduate studentship ; and Melbourne and New Zealand followed St Andrews in conferring honorary degrees . |
| 13 | With a small haw he cut the bent ends to fractionally different lengths . |
| 14 | When the man eventually got home that day he told the assembled villagers of our meeting , and my warning , and said that after he had watched me go round a bend in the road a hundred yards away he started to light the cigarette I had given him . |
| 15 | With all his theological subtlety and insight into human behaviour he accepted the common views of the time in attributing to the saints in Heaven a concern for their worldly rights which , if they had not been part of an eternal order of the universe , would have disgraced a schoolboy . |
| 16 | In his head he saw the hung sheets dotted with coal-smuts torn from their pegs and ripped into bandages as they sailed above the foxgloves . |
| 17 | In his drugged dreams he saw the silent faces crying ; he saw the loving mouth distorted with grief ; he knew about the humiliation and the want — all his fault , his fault , his responsibility , his wickedness , his weakness , his sin , his sacrificial past , the victim to what end — who was murdered at that powerful stone circle near Keswick ? |
| 18 | Like Posidonius he stresses the internal factions and the strife of the Celts , and the volatile character of their decisions . |
| 19 | After a thorough summary of the evidence he reaches the following conclusions : |
| 20 | Last month he reversed the economic reforms he had just introduced and condemned the IMF as ‘ dictatorial ’ , its policies ‘ suicidal ’ . |
| 21 | In the troposphere he emphasised the important reactions of the hydroxyl radical , which he described as the ‘ detergent ’ of the atmosphere because of its pollutant removal capacity , particularly in the tropics . |
| 22 | In his chair he saw the familiar features of the president looking back at him , the face he knew so well from his television set and the newspapers . |
| 23 | His playing is thoughtful and warm , generally responsive to the music 's nature ; and he can turn a phrase charmingly , as with the melancholy ‘ October ’ and in the flexible lines of the central con grazia section of ‘ April ’ ( though at the start he strums the off-beat chords rather casually ) . |
| 24 | By relentless attrition he wore the Dark Elves down . |
| 25 | At the end of the concert he took the four children back to Great Meadow . |
| 26 | As a student he broke the Scottish records for the 100 and 200 yards , and set a new record for the inter-universities 440 yards ( 50.2 seconds ) . |
| 27 | But then President Truman made a big mistake he got the United Nations to authorize another resolution which called for the unification of Korea erm through United Nations intervention and American forces crossed the Yalob |
| 28 | But at two other taverns he elicited the same responses he had at Stokenchurch : a young woman and her male companion , both olive-skinned and quiet , with a less than perfect command of English . |
| 29 | With Albert he planned the royal children 's education and systematized the royal household . |
| 30 | The haze of his first cigarette clouded the room briefly and in the streak of light from the curtains he saw the heaped clothes and the mark on the hotel carpet where he 'd knocked over the glass of water . |