Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] he [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Livermore said : ‘ For 70 minutes he showed tremendous enthusiasm . |
| 2 | On the rural side he had 180 tenant farmers , each with between 50 and 130 acres apiece ; and just as the Prince wanted the goodwill of his urban tenants , so too in the country . |
| 3 | As detailed examinations of mother-infant interactions show , from the beginning the baby is active , not passive ; his behaviour is organized , not ‘ absent ’ ; and even to the earliest social interactions he brings certain characteristics which will affect the behaviour of other people towards him . |
| 4 | Mr Clark admitted at the Old Bailey he encouraged British firms to sell sanction-busting military equipment to Iraq . |
| 5 | Clayton 's development as a photographer had accelerated at a rapid pace and within 12 months he won 12 awards , including : |
| 6 | On the outward run he achieved 297 m.p.h . |
| 7 | The wooden crosses he said broke church regulations . |
| 8 | He later became joint chairman of the UK Byron Society and joint president of the International Byron Society ; in this capacity he chaired international Byron symposia in Cambridge and Athens , on one occasion conducting members in the footsteps of Byron 's Childe Harold to Epirus , into which he had parachuted in summer 1944 . |
| 9 | At this period he added two memoirs on Fife to the extensive list of books , memoirs and papers which had flowed from his pen . |
| 10 | Time after time on his Scottish travels he conjured original ideas from his encounters with the unfamiliar . |
| 11 | In this match he took seven wickets , the strangest of which was India 's first-innings stalwart Vengsarkar . |
| 12 | Presumably at this meeting he heard those charges against Richard which a little later were to reach the ears of some English chroniclers . |
| 13 | On another occasion he declared that marriage was a partnership where his wife was not simply marrying the man but a way of life . |
| 14 | That was his way , of course , always ; but on this occasion he had some cause for it . |
| 15 | And then again this morning he had another business engagement , but this time a different one , apparently , for he had put on his best suit and bowler hat and his black top-coat . |
| 16 | In the sphere of foreign policy he promised improved relations with those capitalist countries " which respect our sovereignty " , and called for the signing of a peace treaty between North Korea and the United States , and the negotiation of a non-aggression pact between North and South Korea . |
| 17 | This month he offers some suggestions on nipping all of them in the bud . |
| 18 | This week he spent four days working on the Darlington and Stockton Times . |
| 19 | During his racing career he rode 1,544 winners . |
| 20 | To this man he entrusted six wagonloads of treasure , and sent him off to wander over the whole wide world , looking for a twin brother and sister , Stoja and Stojane . |
| 21 | Against this background he makes two remarks about children : |
| 22 | For some reason he remembered old Doyle , the gardener , dead now for thirty years , leading him up the same pathway round to the back door and into the kitchen for the mid-morning cup of tea . |
| 23 | To this end he built many castles . |
| 24 | Firstly , he needed to reform the army , and to this end he imported first Italian and later French experts . |
| 25 | To this end he makes periodic counts , from the issue records , of the number of books on loan in each category . |
| 26 | Although a human geographer who has specialized in the analysis of urban systems particularly using entropy-maximizing models , in this book he recognizes three types of system and applies them to both physical and human geography . |
| 27 | And on this farm he had some ducks eei eei Oh |
| 28 | In a careful schemata he identifies five elements which have to be taken account of , namely , productive base , labour process , ownership of capital , specific social relations ( in civil society although Cooke does not employ that term as a compendium ) and institutional specificities . |
| 29 | From this position he has two options on how to play the short ball . |
| 30 | In this way he saw that Man was truly made in the Image of God : ‘ The primary Imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception , and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM ’ ( Biographia Literaria , xiii ) . |