Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Clark admitted at the Old Bailey he encouraged British firms to sell sanction-busting military equipment to Iraq . |
| 2 | He was hired anyway on the condition he spend two months studying English at Berlitz . |
| 3 | In most districts the same person held the posts of justice of the peace and police magistrate , but it was necessary for the complainant to determine in which capacity he wanted this official to act . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As a youngster he spent many hours playing cricket with his good friend John Turner and several other boys on a piece of waste ground at the top of Young Street . |
| 6 | In biology he had much observation to support him but in ‘ physics ’ he had no experimental evidence worth mentioning . |
| 7 | He liked the idea of tricking batsmen from the moment he saw older boys having a go in the nets . |
| 8 | Oh , my goodness he needs some exercise does n't he ? |
| 9 | However , at the committee 's latest meeting he supported two amendments dealing with the status of church shops and newsagents . |
| 10 | Over the years he made numerous attempts to give up drinking altogether . |
| 11 | It took several weeks before the new trader was able to work out roughly the quantities he needed each morning to satisfy his customers ' needs , and still longer to realise that those needs would vary from day to day |
| 12 | oh Barbados , but we have to seen if their teletext if they let us do , but I 've just talked to Jamaican people and they said their , their friend he got some contact wanting some order , then later on this lady says no it 's best thing to do go |
| 13 | Untaught , he did what he could ; and it seemed to many of his colleagues , professionals or not , that he sometimes played at it , doing the things he thought secret agents did , even when they were unnecessary . |
| 14 | In any event he had little time to give careful immediate consideration to the letter ; he merely wrote a short reply pressing Balfour to reconsider his position . |
| 15 | Buy by god he made that woman come in there . |
| 16 | One of the neighbours told officers he saw two youths running away from the scene just prior to the fire being discovered . |
| 17 | Quark Inc chairman , Tim Gill , has come to Quorum 's defence , dismissing Apple 's position as incorrect and ill-considered : in a letter he wrote to Quorum he adds that Quorum made a port to Unix feasible for him . |
| 18 | In seeking to develop managers he encourages each individual to develop a personal philosophy of management which can be implemented practically on a minute-by-minute basis each day of the working week . |
| 19 | This week he spent four days working on the Darlington and Stockton Times . |
| 20 | But Bregawn was the winner , and the £45,260 he earned that afternoon made a major contribution to the £358,837 prize money which saw Michael Dickinson champion trainer again that season , with 120 winners in all — a record total — from 259 runners , a strike rate just short of one in two . |
| 21 | China has so far refused to give any clear response to an offer he made last year to open talks on the basis of new proposals . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | One morning he decided any pupil caught saying the word ‘ shrubbery' ’ was to be punished . |
| 24 | In September he used recent edicts to illustrate the government 's indecision and halfheartedness . |
| 25 | And McBrady he had two chances to go and |
| 26 | Gray had told the board he needed three years to build a top side . |
| 27 | In addition he promised new loans to support broad-based rural development , infrastructural improvements and the substitution of new crops for coca . |
| 28 | When my father went on an embalming course he saw one fellah eating his sandwiches , reading a book propped against a body . |
| 29 | Now of course he has two failures to build upon . |
| 30 | When Pelops came from Asia Minor he found thirteen heads nailed on the palace front ; but he bribed Oenomaus 's groom Myrtilos ( with the promise of Hippodameia 's favours ) to take the lynch-pin from one of his master 's chariot-wheels and substitute one of wax . |