Example sentences of "[pron] he [verb] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ . |
| 2 | As a result of recent research , we can now trace possible sources for most of the individual elements in his theory , but the originality of the way in which he synthesised these elements remains his unique achievement ’ . |
| 3 | He was soon called ‘ Neil drip ’ for he had the patience to feed our worst cases of enteritis with a fountain pen filler , in which he inserted nutritious liquid to keep life in the tiny bodies , and begin to build them up again . |
| 4 | He was educated at the Royal High School and the University of Edinburgh , after which he spent two years learning commerce with a London agency house . |
| 5 | His outstanding contribution was to the Dictionary of National Biography , for which he wrote 778 biographies covering the period from the eleventh to the twentieth centuries . |
| 6 | The bitterness with which he attacks pastoral poetry implies a sense of loss : ‘ 'T IS all a gloomy , melancholy Scene , / Fit only to provoke the Muses ' Spleen ’ . |
| 7 | In 1807 Stark designed the lunatic asylum in Glasgow , in which he adapted Benthamite prison planning to contemporary theories on the segregation of patients by sex , rank , and degree of derangement . |
| 8 | The most famous and best loved of all Sam 's wild pets was a swan which he found one day lying prostrate by the side of Hury Reservoir , too weak even to stand . |
| 9 | Throughout the war , Generalísimo Franco 's insistence that he would be satisfied only with total victory and the ruthlessness with which he pursued that objective had made it clear that , if the Nationalists won , there would be no forgiving or forgetting . |
| 10 | I advised Smith very strongly that the best course of action for him was to throw all his weight and support behind the Lancaster House agreement , whatever it turned out to be , which he showed great reluctance to do because in his view Lancaster House was a total capitulation to the black population . |
| 11 | ( Hons. ) degree and has taught Maths , English and Social Sciences at both Primary and Middle schools , added to which he has 13 years experience in embalming . |
| 12 | The gusto with which he designed these posters shows how whole-heartedly he gave himself to the task in hand . |
| 13 | Remember I told you he had that job checking street-lamps ? |
| 14 | John always remained very concerned about the designing of his own ballets but was never specifically credited with responsibility for their designs , preferring to collaborate with an artist to whom he could explain his ideas and from whom he expected further ideas to enhance the final outcome . |
| 15 | Having laid the groundwork of his interest , the politician had to be ready when election time rolled around again , and at that point an incumbent who could re-apply to constituents whom he had frequent occasion to meet , and ask them for a continuation of their friendship , without suggesting for a moment that any of them had a duty to support him in recognition of an implied bargain for past favours , was in a far stronger position than a man whose only contacts with his constituents took the form of patronage letters . |
| 16 | Oh he 's terrible there , he even had them he had young girls working for him up there , and they found out they were paying he was paying them too little and then he got caught up with 'em , and erm what he done after he charged for taking them up there in the morning and charged 'em for taking them down in the evening with a Land Rover . |
| 17 | To the best among them he offered opulent breakfasts ending with stronger drink than coffee . |
| 18 | The guy was taking on ten people at o he he had ten people working for him in one day . |
| 19 | I mean , he he he took two steps dug his foot in ground and give him one of them ! |
| 20 | What he saw this time surprised him . |
| 21 | It was a small personal obligation , and to date it had n't particularly fretted what he supposed other people called conscience . |