Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb -s] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently he says the old ones were totally inadequate . ’ |
| 2 | In doing so he exposes the pre-acquisition write-down , the timing of recognition of deferred consideration and the impact of disposals . |
| 3 | Admittedly Tchakarov is not helped by an opaque and woolly recording that fails to properly focus the orchestra , but even so he misses the raw power and vigour that Fedoseyev finds in his Philips set . |
| 4 | Anyway he has the right approach and I 'm sure something will result . ’ |
| 5 | whenever he hears the seasick bell … |
| 6 | Now he faces the biggest challenge of his existence — the devil-take-the-hindmost motorways of Bavaria , Austria and Italy . |
| 7 | Today he begins the third week of a hunger strike . |
| 8 | Well he thinks the only way that modern will accept the rule of one person rather than another is if they think they 're somehow there as a result of their own action , so we 'll only accept the rule of erm our leaders if we think we put them there and we take them back again , we put them there and can recall them and this for Barry is the only merit that contemporary democratic policy democratic erm systems that it allows us to think of our rulers as having some legitimate claim to rule . |
| 9 | Not surprisingly he makes the odd enemy . |
| 10 | Here he describes the unprecedented amount of sculpture he has found , whose quality demonstrates that the sculptors of Aphrodisias were no mere copyists but artists ofa distinctive school which made a major contribution to ancient art . |
| 11 | Here he provides the powerful image of the striding male Anarchist in the entrance hall of the NCCA . |
| 12 | You can but er Bedge has n't he likes the hard way you see . |
| 13 | When asked to assess the opposition , manager Lazaroni replied diplomatically that he fears no single Italian player , rather he fears the whole side . |
| 14 | Sometimes he imagines the little knot of concentration between his father 's eyebrows as he reads the letter aloud , and his mother 's smile hidden behind her hand . |
| 15 | It is only late in the day that the weary French King ( Paul Scofield ) gears up his own hostile rhetoric , and then he entrusts the actual campaign to various representatives , the Dauphin , the Constable , Orleans , who cry up only their armour and their horses , and are rhetorically out-ranked even before the battle begins . |
| 16 | Surely then he becomes the free man , the wandering spirit , the enjoyer of the limitless life ? |
| 17 | Frank and Betty manage to get out and on to the bonnet , then he has the bright idea of removing a bag of manure from the boot . |
| 18 | Both the Secretary of State and the Prime Minister have made clear statements in the past 10 days that if the Scottish people vote for independence at the election , independence is what we shall have , but will the Secretary of State say a bit more today about how he answers the current argument about whether he has the right to run Scotland with nine Members of Parliament and , according to the latest poll , 18 per cent . |
| 19 | There now watch and see the how he misses the central reservation , those bollards . |
| 20 | Daily Telegraph cartoonist Nicholas Carland showing how he sees the Prime Minister . |
| 21 | The selectors , and Gooch himself , may see how he starts the English season or , ever the realist , he may just decide to go . |
| 22 | Instead he sees the big idea of this movie : all people are linked by the universal spirit . |
| 23 | But , though it is heartening to find an Iranian writer bravely grappling with the problems of exile and turning a critical eye on the values of both his native and adopted countries , Mr Ataie will write better plays when he admits the theatrical importance of contradiction and argument . |
| 24 | NEWTOWNABBEY mayor Alderman Arthur Kell will send a rocket into orbit this Saturday when he lights the first firework at the Valley Leisure Centre 's annual display . |
| 25 | What a top bloke — especially in the episode nicked off Star Trek when he plays the evil Brigadier with an eye patch from another dimension . |
| 26 | CHRIS Balderstone will create history at Lord 's tomorrow when he becomes the first umpire to sit in judgement during a Test in England . |
| 27 | He suffers a first conflict of loyalties when he helps the strange man who calls himself Faraway Moses to escape from the Riders and learns that a confederacy is working in secret to reform a government that favours rich against poor , ‘ not with rifle and sword ’ , as the conspirator tells Dick , but : |
| 28 | Gin , we are told , is one of the purest spirits made , and juniper berries , the baies de genièvre or ginepro from which Geneva or gin derived its name , provide the characteristic flavouring which everyone who ever drank a glass of gin in their lives would recognize when he tastes the juniper-berry flavour in Provençal game terrines and certain Northern Italian sauces and stuffings for partridge and pheasant ; and eau de vie de genièvre is a spirit used in French and Belgian Ardennais regional cooking , so it seems extraordinary that people blanch at the suggestion that gin should go into the casseroles . |
| 29 | It is there when Orwell calls the Left ‘ Bolshevik commissars , half gangster , half gramophone , escaped quakers , vegetarian cranks and back-room Labour party crawlers ’ , or when he dismisses the Marxist dialectic as an argumentative Pea-and-thimble trick ; there again when Waugh reviews Stephen Spender 's flatulent autobiography World within World ( 1951 ) : |
| 30 | But there is a more cheerful day ahead for him next Tuesday when he introduces the last Question of Sport in the present series . |