Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] he [vb -s] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea being that if he spends the next couple of weeks explaining to all the other people there why he ca n't keep his hands off women he wo n't want to be unfaithful any more and his wife will forgive him . |
| 2 | The present Prime Minister , if he has not already started his career of collecting Royal Worcester porcelain , will be very welcome if he visits the Royal Porcelain Worcester works . |
| 3 | Manzano has drawn attention to a real difference when he says ( of both these first books ) , ‘ In general Cohen is lyrical in his writings when he refers to himself , and anarchistic when he confronts the outside world , ’ a comment which becomes more fully justified as time goes by , though Leonard 's anarchism remained personal and mainly verbal . |
| 4 | For example , if a person supplies a computer in kit form which , when assembled , infringes a patent , then the supplier of the computer kit infringes the patent even if he is just a middle-man as long as he has the requisite knowledge . |
| 5 | In any event , in due course a suitable solatium in the form of an apology was offered to Harold Wilson — or at lest a solatium which he regarded as suitable since he possesses the invaluable quality of being able to convince himself of the correctness of whatever he does — and the matter ended . |
| 6 | Christopher Brown , managing director of the City-based Corney & Barrow bar and restaurant chain is quite right when he insists the hearty times of eating and drinking will return , ‘ because people still want to meet and talk ’ . |
| 7 | It is a well established law that it is sufficient if he exercises the ordinary skill of an ordinary man exercising that particular art . |
| 8 | John Young is always especially smart and handsome when he visits the lower deck for his strolls , morning and evening , with ivory-topped cane , with burnished black shoes , with plausible perfecto . |