Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With this in mind he has established a small scientific strategic and research programme to look at the analytical programme from a broader perspective . |
| 2 | Like all long-term coughers he had developed a noise-reducing technique , and all that could be heard was a chuck-chuck-chuck sound that would go on for long minutes at a time , gradually winding down like a clockwork drummer until every scrap of air was squeezed out of his poor concrete lungs . |
| 3 | He did not know that in his last months he had developed a fatal heart condition . |
| 4 | During the last five months he has made a strenuous effort to get to know the area and the residents of this constituency of contrasts . |
| 5 | Previously , in the eighteenth and seventeenth centuries , a man himself could dress and show how wealthy he was , and when man started going to work he had to wear a respectable , responsible suit ; he had to put across the image of honesty , of , you know , I 'm , I 'm a respectable man , I 'm decent , I 'm down to earth . |
| 6 | According to his biographer , Henry Bordeaux , even when he landed he remained in a trance ‘ as if electrified by the fluid still passing through his frame ’ Though through so many dogfights he seemed to bear a charmed life , this kind of nervous impulsiveness seemed bound to lead to disaster . |
| 7 | From his new home in England he had kept a close eye and ear as one disaster followed another . |
| 8 | ALAN Hickman from Derbyshire became worried about the advice he was receiving over his pension transfer when he realised that each expert he consulted recommended a different course of action . |
| 9 | We will be able to provide the equipment he needs to lead a normal life , and we know he 'll want for nothing in the future . ’ |
| 10 | During the war he had adopted a neo-romantic style in his drawings of landscapes , apple trees , houses and labouring figures . |
| 11 | On one occassion he had made a huge crossbow , hoping to throw himself to the mainland , but the elastic snapped , sending him backwards into the school and he had spent two weeks finding his way out . |
| 12 | After addressing a public meeting in support of extending the franchise to agricultural workers he had caught a severe cold . |
| 13 | At this point he decided to follow a mathematical career and soon he had added the senior mathematical scholarship to his list of honours . |
| 14 | Before his Colette-Willy period he had contributed a weekly column of musical criticism to a Bordeaux newspaper . |
| 15 | The bishop 's hobbies include reading and walking and since his student days he has had a great interest in church and choral music . |
| 16 | When he was satisfied no fresh threat was about to manifest itself from the darkness , he moved off back the way he had come , retracing his steps until he reached the shallow stream he had leapt a short time before . |
| 17 | However , I argued that we should not suppose that the essentially competitive process he proposed implies a competitive outcome . |
| 18 | ‘ Being Alex the showman he tries to pot a straight yellow one-handed and misses . |
| 19 | Alongside the challenges of the Social Charter and the Community Charge he has to keep a firm grip on the Government 's sponsored schemes . |
| 20 | Well look at this daddy he 's eaten a whole bowlful of it |
| 21 | In five years he had turned a struggling side into formidable Championship contenders capable of springing surprises on League giants in the Cup . |
| 22 | For years he had continued a running battle with producers and film companies whom he saw as the bad guys . |
| 23 | Over the years he had acquired real skill in his hobby , and had exhibited some of his studies of Scottish scenery and wildlife ; his real passion was bird photography , and through the years he had amassed a remarkable collection of pictures . |
| 24 | Over the years he has done a marvellous job enthusiastically promoting the theatre and bringing world-class productions to local audiences in spite of the difficulties posed by the Troubles . |
| 25 | Since the end of hostilities he had had a permanent roof over his head , but no other aspect of his life had improved radically , whereas I had been passed from a doting father to a doting husband . |
| 26 | In between times during the day he had to take a short ladder , laid across the bike and make sure the lamps were clean . |
| 27 | One day he arrived to give a new-born filly post-foaling antibiotic and tetanus cover . |
| 28 | They do want stuff on local levels I mean if he 's East Herts he 's got a huge area , has n't he ? |
| 29 | In the event he had to have a below-the-knee amputation . |
| 30 | If in Murder in the Cathedral he had chosen a particular martyrdom which functioned as a bloody , savage ritual , then in the plays which followed , connections with primitive ritual would be clearer — if anything , as Eliot later feared when thinking of The Family Reunion , too clear , the primitive outline getting in the way of the Christian story . |