Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] he [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That made him the perfect fling . |
| 2 | They moved on after that , with Jessica dropping in bits about Parr as they occurred to her — although not that she was due to meet him the next day . |
| 3 | This made him the intellectual heir of John Hunter , whose Essays and Observations he published with due filial piety in 1861 . |
| 4 | This made him the ideal choice to fly this naval fighter . |
| 5 | Some would say this made him the ideal publisher of a newspaper . |
| 6 | This made him an acceptable candidate as protector and , once he held that office , helped to ensure that he could call on the backing of the Yorkist establishment . |
| 7 | This made him an acceptable candidate as protector and , once he held that office , helped to ensure that he could call on the backing of the Yorkist establishment . |
| 8 | Ever a man for taking the particular to exhibit the general , this allowed him a global crack at the Scots : he claimed that they were not interested in doing anything unless it had natural awkwardness in it : ‘ What can not be done without some uncommon trouble or particular expedient , will not often be done at all . |
| 9 | It was , alas , only too derivative , but given its auteur 's antecedents everyone was prepared to give him a second chance . |
| 10 | There can be little doubt as to what in the way of topics and register the Host expects in the Monk 's Tale ; he concludes his observations on Melibee with : and continues with a description of the Monk that matches with the impression " Chaucer " claims to have of the Monk in the General Prologue , of a " " manly man " " , straining at the bounds of what is allowed to a monk ( and not dissimilar to the monk of the Shipman 's Tale ) : After nearly a hundred stanzas of the Monk 's tragedies , the Host is prepared to give him a second chance , as " Chaucer " had , but feels this time he has to be more specific as to what is wanted : But as soon as the Monk speaks we have the opportunity to see , firstly , that his reaction does not suggest he is flattered or pleased by the Host 's appraisal of him , and secondly that he sounds quite different from the bold and thrusting " man 's man " that " Chaucer " and the Host would make of him : Note how the Monk 's desire to offer literature that " " sowneth into honestee " " anticipates Chaucer the prosist 's retraction of the tales " " that sownen into synne " " . |
| 11 | When piling the buttercream on to the teddy 's body , try to mound it up quite high to give him a tubby appearance . |
| 12 | EVER since I saw David Bellamy disappearing down a crack in a garden path to demonstrate that we all had our own ‘ personal schooool of evolution ’ close at hand , I have been prepared to concede him an eternal place among the inexorably tenacious . |
| 13 | Mr Wilson says this gave him a different approach as well as a wider experience of business . |
| 14 | This gave him a one-stroke advantage over two players -Bill Nicolson , of Coventry , who had 73 , 69 , and Richard Latham , a local player , who managed 70 , 72 . |
| 15 | This gave him an endless shopping list of radical causes which had no apparent connection , but were bound together by the radical-chic lifestyle of their supporters . |
| 16 | This gave him an invaluable insight into the boardroom and helped to bridge the gap between financial controller and finance director . |
| 17 | John Watson tends to regard himself as Mike 's adopted father , but Mike has inherited the substantial Lester shareholding and this gives him a considerable amount of independence ( which is not always to John Watson 's taste ) . |
| 18 | This gives him an unrivalled knowledge of the way in which banks operate , and contacts inside them . |
| 19 | This earned him the unusual distinction of being elected to a fellowship of the society at the age of twenty-five ( 1852 ) . |
| 20 | This left him an enormous amount of scope for demonstrating the kind of narrative energy that most English fiction-writers would have given a great deal to acquire . |
| 21 | This makes him a good friend . |
| 22 | One would even be delighted to give him a helping hand . |
| 23 | The fate that befell him in the 1956 Grand National booked him a permanent place not only in the reminiscences of racing folk but in the British national memory . |
| 24 | Indeed , they are likely to win him a new reputation as a man for whom the boom never ended . |
| 25 | We are some way from the context of the debate , but if the Minister really wants evidence of how appallingly badly the service is being delivered , I shall be extremely glad to send him the 20-page Tower Watch survey of Archway Tower social security office . |
| 26 | Michael Bridges , the scientific journalist who first revealed to the public at large that this project existed — and we all owe him a great debt … ’ |
| 27 | We all owe him a great debt of gratitude , and we wish him well . |
| 28 | But Tony 's sparkling form at England B level is sure to give him the left wing spot and set him up for the Test against Canada on October 17 . |
| 29 | He also practised medicine and magic , and the latter brought him an unsavoury reputation . |
| 30 | The young pedlar cast him a wary glance and apparently decided on practicality over valour . |