Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He anticipated the later work of Humphry Repton [ q.v. ] by creating flower gardens adjacent to the house , as at Sandon in 1781 , where he laid out a garden under the windows of the drawing-room , planted with flowers and flowering shrubs and with a central basin of water with goldfish . |
| 2 | ‘ The tree in the forest , where he sealed up the dybbuk … ’ |
| 3 | But as he prepared to switch from the more austere environs of the Treasury , where he saw out the final 16 months of the last Tory Government , Mr Mellor spoke of the importance he and the Prime Minister attached to encouraging artistic excellence and preserving the national heritage . |
| 4 | Mark Hughes slotted in comfortably at centre-back , although he picked up a booking and went close to receiving a red card . |
| 5 | He liked the Latin name so much that he made up a sort of rhyme about it and chanted this as he went upstairs : |
| 6 | Tories aching for fizz have to accept the meat and two veg reality ; and they may remember that , in the fable , Jupiter grew so tired of the frogs complaining about their uninspiring King Log that he sent down a replacement , King Stork , who ate them all . |
| 7 | It is a penalty if it was not a genuine attempt by the parties to pre-estimate the likely damages but was intended to hang in terror over one party to ensure that he carried out the contract . |
| 8 | The social worker might hold that the client 's general conduct towards him indicated that she would not object to this action ( implied consent ) ; that he carried out the act in good faith as to its consolatory and therapeutic implication ; or ( perhaps less validly ) that the relationship was sufficiently close to allow a gesture of endearment without sexual implication or threatening content . |
| 9 | Charles 's territories could already have been described as an empire , in the sense that he ruled over a collection of different political units held together by the allegiance his subjects felt they owed him rather than through a sense of common institutions or common language which could serve as the foundation for a unifying national spirit . |
| 10 | If Philip Leapor 's mother was indeed the woman who died in 1726 , it is reasonable to believe that he took over a house which she had occupied , and leased a separate piece of ground for his nursery . |
| 11 | One of the best descriptions of the landscape of Madeira is that given by White and Johnson ( Madeira. : Its Climate and Scenery , 1860 ) : ‘ When Columbus was asked by Queen Isabella to give her some notion of the configuration of Jamaica , it is said that he took up a sheet of paper , and after crushing it in his hand , partly opened it out ; then placing it on the table , he told her Majesty that she would derive a better idea of the island from the crumpled paper than from any description conveyed in words . |
| 12 | It 's a problem that so enraged Martin Cutts of Words at Work that he took up a challenge to rewrite one . |
| 13 | Mr Morrison says that he took on the job ‘ because they said that it would be difficult but it had to be done and that 's what appealed to me ’ . |
| 14 | Mr Marsh was so incensed by the attempted prosecution that he took out a summons to obtain his costs , and yesterday at a brief hearing in the High Court the Attorney General agreed to pay his costs and not to take any further action on the matter . |
| 15 | It 's possible that he tiptoed down the passage and came in by the main door . |
| 16 | The 16th-century ruins of Knock Castle , 2 miles away , have a murky past — all the sons of the Laird were murdered by a neighbouring Forbes of Strath girnock ; when the Laird was informed he was so overcome by grief that he fell down a staircase to his death . |
| 17 | Roebuck was very interested in Watt 's invention and suggested that he take out a patent for it . |
| 18 | When he says of Bilbo that he gave up the Ring ‘ of his own accord : an important point ’ , he may be saying only that Bilbo ca n't have become too badly addicted , or more moralistically that Bilbo 's good impulse will help his cure . |
| 19 | During this time he developed an interest in art , to such an extent that he gave up the security of work in 1846 . |
| 20 | Such was his disillusionment that he gave up the practice of medicine for a while and supported himself and his growing family by undertaking translation work , at the same time pursuing his chemical and botanical studies . |
| 21 | ‘ YOU 'VE got to get rid of the males , ’ David Gardner said with such fierce determination that he conjured up an image of concentration camps for male hops in remote parts of Kent . |
| 22 | It came to him , just like a flash of lightning and he was so excited that he picked up the telephone and rang Dennis Hopper in Los Angeles . |
| 23 | Giving evidence , Capt von Humbracht said that he picked up the uniform , hat and sword belonging to Napoleon which lay on the ground . |
| 24 | In fact it was at this time just as the United States was beginning to take up his Girls that he set up a school there . |
| 25 | Ginger 's greatest single claim to fame is that he set up a record for an inside-forward that has never been beaten at our club , when he scored five goals in the game against Southend at The Palace on 25 September 1909 . |
| 26 | and I 'm not kidding you , he 's got his blue coat that he wears down the garden , you know the one with all the , he 's got erm his army jacket , a grey jacket erm tt how many has he got ? |
| 27 | But God does n't do that he brings about a programme of redemption and restoration . |
| 28 | He always went to sleep with his still burning , so he got through a lot more than she did . |
| 29 | she said who , I said Joy , she said oh blimey is she , I said yeah , so he hung on a bit but he 'd |
| 30 | He realised that fine-enough markings would be too difficult to read so he wound along a part of one arm of the balance a tight spiral of very fine brass wire , extending from where the suspended weight would balance metal A ( suspended in water ) to where it would balance metal B ( suspended in water ) . |