Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] he [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the next few decades he developed the study of plant communities in Britain , using methods similar to those of Clements . |
| 2 | As breeder and exhibitor of budgerigars for the past 12 years he finds the joke wearing thin , but it has n't dampened his enthusiasm for his hobby . |
| 3 | With damp palms he opened the door that led up into the hallway . |
| 4 | The kid gets on his bicycle ; for a few moments he wears the expression of someone who had just been made aware of his own mortality . |
| 5 | At fifty feet he squeezed the gun lever just as another block of air shouldered into the little SE5a . |
| 6 | You might , for example , inquire after Richard Dunwoody , whose Becher 's Brook fall on the much-fancied Brown Windsor was just one of the six times he hit the ground during the three-day meeting . |
| 7 | Blasting through the grey language that usually cloaks such matters he accuses the Fund of corruption , self-interest and deceit . |
| 8 | Each year for six years he gathered the seed and planted each grain again . |
| 9 | In the remaining weeks he refined the calibration of the detector by exposing it to beams of neutrons of known energy , produced by a van de Graaff accelerator . |
| 10 | In the following years he took the diploma of ARCS and B.Sc. |
| 11 | But on second thoughts he erases the remark , and replaces it with a slight smile . |
| 12 | Llanelli 's second try , a disarmingly easy one by Steve Bowling on the blind side of a scrum-five , was of more modest proportions and if Jeff Bird had kicked more than one of the six chances he had the conclusion would by half-time have been foregone . |
| 13 | Nevertheless on such occasions he gave the impression to friends and acquaintances that in some ways he had mellowed . |
| 14 | ‘ Do n't let me have to do it , ’ three times he begged the Father . |
| 15 | Three times he tried the manoeuvre and three times he failed to haul his weight over the sill . |
| 16 | For the second time in three months he heard the battering sound of hobnailed boots climbing the wooden stairs to fetch a body . |
| 17 | For much of the construction work on these lines he had the assistance of William and Murdoch Paterson , whom he took into partnership in 1862 . |
| 18 | In his own beloved English , it was always higher , averaging 71.3 per cent in the three years he offered the subject ; French , which was only offered in his first year produced a convincing 75 per cent ; and Economics , offered in two years , 62 per cent . |
| 19 | To counter these claims he tempers the language slightly : ‘ The article should perhaps have been entitled the ‘ implications ’ rather than the consequences of literacy . ’ |
| 20 | In support of these assertions he compares the situation ‘ in traditional industry ’ , where , for the worker arriving in the factory in the morning , ‘ his individual machine is a bit like his child . |
| 21 | After just 17 minutes he talked the house into adjourning until today on the grounds that it would be improper to attack a man on the day of his mother 's funeral . |
| 22 | For many years he edited the Cefn Chronicle and later worked for the North Wales Newspapers group . |
| 23 | When A had lived x years he became the father of B. He lived after the birth of B y years and had other sons and daughters . |
| 24 | In many ways he understood the Burman , and his relationship with the pre-war leader of the Executive Council , U Saw , was a close one . |
| 25 | Like so many Victorians he looked the part , his face possessing an authority worthy of a minor prophet . |
| 26 | With his bare hands he forced the lift doors apart , freeing the duo in an instant . |
| 27 | With six thousand Cornishmen he crossed the Tamar and breached the walls of Exeter before being repulsed . |
| 28 | After two more attempts he tried the door ; it was unsecured and it opened into a little hall from which stairs led upwards . |
| 29 | After Alexander the Great had regained independence for the Ionian cities he initiated the building of a new and large temple , dedicated to Apollo , on the site of the earlier building . |
| 30 | For the next ten years he travelled the world , visiting and working in mines and quarries in every continent . |